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The number of facilities in the Volgograd Region, now accessible for disabled persons, has increased; but the region still sees law violations at adapting such persons, says the report of the Volgograd association of blind specialists name "Nadezhda" (Hope).

Today, the Russian State Duma has approved, in the second and third readings, the package of antiterrorist bills. A number of provisions thereof have touched on non-traditional religious groups, including Salafists.

Investigators refuse to appoint a medical examination for Lecho Gadamauri, a resident of Ingushetia, who is being kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Vladikavkaz. This was stated by his relatives and his advocate.

In Nagorno-Karabakh, 543 people received one-time financial assistance from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Each of them got assistance the amount of 75,000 drams (about 156 US dollars).

On June 23, in Vanadzor, supporters of Zhirair Sefilyan, the leader of the movement "100 years without regime", a member of the Front of National Salvation "New Armenia", held an action in his support. They have called the activist's arrest as unfounded and started collecting signatures in support of the oppositionist, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The investigation into the case on the kidnapping of Abu Bakar Tsechoev in 2012 should be resumed after the verdict of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on recognizing the violation of the rights of his family members. This was stated by Olga Gnezdilova, a lawyer of the human rights organization "Legal Initiative".

The Russian State Duma Committee has removed the regulation of deprivation of citizenship from the package of anti-terrorism laws.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Ukraine has sent requests to Russia for the extradition of Stanislav Klykh and Nikolai Karpyuk, sentenced on the charge of involvement in the first Chechen war on the side of militants.

There is no sense for militants to destroy social objects in Dagestan, since by doing so, they lose support of the population, said the experts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" in their comments on the arson of the school in the village of Teletl.

Authorities should adopt a law "On Homeless Persons" and assign the appropriate status to people who have lost their homes, said the protesters who rallied near the Parliament of Georgia. Should the authorities protract with the bill, activists of the "Union of Unemployed for Employment" and the "Free Generation" promise to go on hunger strike.

Border guards have detained a group of tourists in the mountains near the Russian-Abkhaz border. They were expelled outside the frontier zone because of absence of permits, border guards have explained.

The North-Caucasian District Military Court has sentenced Sharafutdin Vagidov, a resident of Dagestan, who tried to join the terrorist grouping "Islamic State" (IS), to two years in colony.

Last night, at the entrances of the bridge, which was named after Akhmat Kadyrov, members of the movement "Solidarity" have secured plates with a different name: the bridge of sniper Idrisov. Thus, the activists expressed their protest against the decision of the City Governor to name the bridge after the first President of Chechnya.

Badrudin Musaev, a son of the Mayor of Makhachkala, does not plead guilty under the charge of use of violence dangerous to life and health of policemen, filed against him. This has been told today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Akhkubek Kolov, an advocate of Badrudin Musaev.

On June 22, Krasnodar historian Sergey Ryabchikov, the president of the Krasnodar research centre for the study of ancient civilizations and cultures, started a protest action. At present, his condition is being assessed as satisfactory. The Krasnodar historian intends to continue his hunger strike until the courts, to which he has filed complaints against the Krasnodar regional fund of capital repairs of apartment buildings, do consider the complaints on the merits and check the activities of the fund.

Today, at the session of the Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg, non-partisan deputy Maxim Reznik has presented a draft appeal to the City Governor concerning the naming of a bridge after Akhmat Kadyrov, which he called urgent.

In the Rostov Region, miners of the "Kingcoal" mine have launched a protest action because of wage arrears. They have got a sanction from the Gukovo administration to carry out daily pickets.

In anticipation of the new decision to be announced by the Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC) of Armenia concerning tariffs for electricity, the "Caucasian Knot" has addressed political analysts with the question of whether they expect a new wave of protests in Armenia.

In Yerevan, the court has granted the investigators' motion on the arrest of Zhirair Sefilyan, the leader of the movement "100 years without regime", who is accused of illegal possession and transportation of weapons.

Today, the believers of the village of Shamkhal have held an unsanctioned rally in front of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) in Makhachkala. After the rally in Makhachkala, the Dagestani police detained several protesters. According to law enforcers, the believers started a fight inside the mosque. The believers claim a provocation arranged by the police.