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The fire brigade of Sochi believes the burned house in Vinogradnaya Street in Sochi was deliberately set on fire. According to local residents, it is not the first time in Sochi, when fires start in the houses that are subjected to demolition.

The "REN TV" TV Channel has made public a video record of the attack on Dagestani businessman Magomed Tazirov in Stavropol. After that incident, Djambulat Dadaev was put on the wanted list, and later, he was killed by the Stavropol police in Grozny.

Khachik Avetisyan, a Karabakh War veteran, has resumed his hunger strike at the office of the Armenian Ombudsman.

The advocates of Zaur Dadaev have appealed against the court ruling to extend his custody until August 28.

For the second day, residents and guests of Armenia continue to lay flowers at the "Tsitsernakaberd" memorial in Yerevan and pay tribute to the victims of the Armenian Genocide.

Builder Mardiros Demerchyan is accused of stealing a cable from the Olympic construction site in Sochi. The accused man signed a recognizance not to leave.

The growth of the number of victims of terrorism and counterterrorist operations (CTOs) in Chechnya in 2014 as compared with 2013; the special operation carried out by power agents from the Stavropol Territory in the territory of Chechnya, which provoked an exasperated statement of Ramzan Kadyrov about the possibility of opening fire on law enforcers from other regions; the problems associated with attempts detain and question the suspects in the case of the Boris Nemtsov's case – all these events are destroying the existing myth of Ramzan Kadyrov's total control over the Chechen Republic.

The court has summoned the investigator and the chief of the Budennovsk Criminal Investigation Department for questioning in the case against Lyudmila Bogatenkova, the head of the Stavropol Committee of Soldiers' Mothers "Mothers from Kuma River Area".

After the conflict between Ramzan Kadyrov and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the central office of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) intends to conduct an inspection with regard of officials of the Investigating Department for Chechnya, the "Kommersant" reports.

Islam Kubanov, a detained a resident of the city of Cherkessk, was tortured by power agents, after which he was urgently hospitalized and underwent surgery, said his relatives. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has launched a service investigation of the relatives' application.

The murder of Djambulat Dadaev in the course of a special operation in Grozny has directly touched on the issue of the monopoly on the power and use of violence in Chechnya. This was the comment of Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, the head of the Russian Office of the International Crisis Group, on Ramzan Kadyrov's statement that militants had used the uniform of law enforcers.

In North Ossetia, the special operation in the village of Novy of the Prigorodny District has been completed, and the regime of counterterrorist operation (CTO) has been cancelled.

In the course of the special operation carried out in the Dagestani village of Novy Paraul, law enforcers found a workshop arranged for making improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and more than 140 kg of explosive substances.

The law enforcement bodies are verifying Ruslan Geremeev, a former officer of the Chechen battalion "Sever" (North), for involvement in the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, the "Interfax" reports with reference to a source familiar with the situation.

The defence has filed an appeal against the court's decision on the extension of the detention in custody until August 28 of Shagid Gubashev, a defendant in the case of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov. This was reported by advocate Ilya Trofimov.

The public organization "Committee against Torture" has filed an appeal to the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court against the decision of the Soviet District Court on the refusal to recognize illegitimate the resolution of the Regional Prosecutor, on the basis of which the organization had been included in the register of non-profit organizations (NPOs) acting as foreign agents.

In Dagestan, two militants were killed as a result of the special operation carried out in the village of Novy Paraul. This was reported by the information centre of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

The US Department of State and the British Foreign Office have expressed their concern over the fact that in Azerbaijan, Intigam Aliev was sentenced to imprisonment and urged to release him. Baku officials reject criticism in connection with the verdict of guilty against the human rights defender.

Russian political analysts Alexei Malashenko and Sergey Markedonov believe that recognition of Armenian Genocide is mainly caused not by not humanitarian, but by political considerations. As an example, they refer to the USA, where the issue of recognizing the genocide draws quite a lot of public attention.

In Yerevan, the memorial complex to the victims of the Armenian Genocide "Tsitsernakaberd" started a ceremony of remembrance of the people killed during the events of 1915 in the Ottoman Empire.