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They confiscated the computer equipment and various items during the searches conducted in the house and office of the arrested Zhirair Sefilyan, the leader of the movement "100 years without the regime" and a member of the "Constituent Parliament", said his wife.

Relatives of Magomed Suleimanov, a resident of Makhachkala, who disappeared on June 3, have stated distrust of the official version, according to which he was killed in a counterterrorist operation (CTO) near the village of Kasumkent.

The investigation of the case against Zaur Dadaev, Shagid Gubashev, Anzor Gubashev, Temerlan Eskerkhanov and Khamzat Bakhaev, accused of killing Boris Nemtsov, is over. They are accused of committing the murder for hire in an organized grouping, and of illegal acquisition, carrying, transportation and storage of firearms (points "g and h", Part 2, Article 105, and Part 3, Article 222, of the Russian Criminal Code). The maximum penalty under these articles is life imprisonment.

Zhirair Sefilyan, the head of the joint staff of the opposition and the leader of the movement "100 years without regime", was arrested on suspicion of illegal transportation and storage of weapons.

Today, Volodya Avetisyan, sentenced in Armenia for six years on the charge of fraud, has declared a hunger strike in connection with the dismissal of his motion for conditional early relief (CER) or commutation of his sentence.

46 families from the settlements of Maryino and Tatianovka and aul (village) of Tkhagapsh, whose houses were recognized as the most affected by the recent flooding in Sochi, have received payments from the Emergency Fund of the Krasnodar Territory.

Boris Nemtsov was killed in the centre of Moscow with a pistol hand-assembled from foreign parts. This has been reported today by the press service of the Russian FSB.

Three special operations in Dagestan, as a result of which 15 people were killed; races of "Formula 1" in Baku held against the background of statements voiced by human rights defenders concerning the situation in Azerbaijan; naming of one of the bridges in Saint Petersburg after Akhmat Kadyrov, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of June 13-19, 2016, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

In the car, belonging to Moscow advocate Ilyas Alaev, a native of Chechnya, returned by law enforcers after the inspection, a large amount of money, which he carried with him, was missing; however, there was a medicine forbidden for free commercial sale. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by relatives of Ilyas Alaev. According to them, shortly before his death, the advocate was at the police station.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on May 30, the Toponymy Commission of Saint Petersburg voiced an initiative to name an unnamed bridge over the Dudergof Channel after Akhmat Kadyrov. On June 16, it was officially announced that Georgy Poltavchenko, Governor of Saint Petersburg, signed a decree on naming of the bridge.

Today, the Volgograd Region holds the Cossack festival which involves 3000 people. According to the organizers of the festival, their purpose is to study the heritage of the Don Cossacks. Meanwhile, they do not believe in "complete revival of the Cossack culture".

Murat Kashirgov, who was sentenced for the attack on Nalchik, died in a punishment cell of the penal colony, located in Khabarovsk. This has been reported today by journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova.

The World Bank (WB) Board of Directors has approved the allocation to Azerbaijan of an additional loan in the amount of 66.7 million US dollars for improvement of the living conditions and increase in income of internally displaced persons (IDPs).

Half of the Georgia's population suffer from food availability problems: 61% of people cannot afford enough meat and fish products, 45% ‑ fruits and vegetables, and 20% ‑ dairy products. This was stated in the report prepared by the NGO "Oxfam".

Jane Buchanan, a member of the international human rights organization "Human Rights Watch" (HRW), has called "disappointing" the comment of Bernie Ecclestone, the head of the company "Formula One Management", about the situation with human rights in Azerbaijan.

The draft of amendments to the Electoral Code of Georgia, which is being prepared by the presidential administration and the non-parliamentary opposition, will become an alternative to the draft being examined by the Parliament.

Law enforcers have detained brothers Ruslan and Rasim Alborov from the village of Psyzh by falsifying evidence. They were tortured and forced to incriminate themselves. This was stated by the parents of the brothers in their complaint filed to the Prosecutor's Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

Actions of supporters of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) against expansion of the NATO were held today in the cities of Volgograd and Volzhsky. Local residents were not interested in protesters’ foreign policy demands, but they supported claims to the socio-economic development of Russia.

A laboratory for making explosive devices was found in the household of the slain today resident of Nalchik; a powerful bomb was destroyed there in place, said law enforcement source.

Law enforcers have cancelled the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, introduced this morning in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria.