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The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has granted the motion of the investigating authorities and extended the arrest of Anzor Gubashev, a defendant in the case of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, for four months, until August 28.

The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has condemned the verdict of guilty announced in Azerbaijan against Rasul Jafarov.

At the request of an advocate of Zaur Dadaev, a defendant in the case of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow has postponed the consideration of the advocate's complaint filed about non-admission to the defence.

A female resident of the Urus-Martan District of Chechnya was detained by field investigators in Kabardino-Balkaria, while she was trying to fly to Turkey for further travelling to Syria to join her groom.

Alexander Tkachov has resigned from his post of the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory and led the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. On Wednesday, the relevant decree was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Sapiyat Magomedova, an advocate from Dagestan, has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to start communication in her complaint against the law enforcement bodies for delaying the investigation into the case of her beating in 2010.

The Stavropol Regional Court has refused to hold a re-investigation into the decisions announced by Judge Oleg Popov of the Predgorny District Court in the trial on the case against Kislovodsk Imam Kurman-Ali Baichorov.

The Ministries of Defence (MoDs) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) and Azerbaijan report about victims on the troops' contact line. According to different sources, from one to five persons were killed; and some others were wounded.

The guilt of journalist Boris Stomakhin sentenced on charges of justification of the terror acts committed in Volgograd has not been proven by the court, and thus, the sentence is to be cancelled. This was stated by Svetlana Sidorkina, a defender of Boris Stomakhin. Prosecutors believe the available evidence is sufficient.

In the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, power agents seized from a hiding firearms and ammunition belonging to militants.

Advocates of residents of Dagestan sentenced in the case of the terror act, which killed Sheikh Said Afandi al-Chirkawi, have called the verdict too severe and claimed numerous contradictions in the case.

The Moscow Regional Court has announced the verdict in the case against the "Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists" (BORN). The defendants' advocates called the verdict too severe and declared their intention to appeal against it.

The Moscow Regional Court has sentenced three members of the "Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists" (known as BORN) to various terms of imprisonment: from 24 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony to life imprisonment.

In Boston, the jury resumes its activity for sentencing Johar Tsarnaev, who was found guilty of committing the terror act in the course of the Boston Marathon in 2013.

In the city of Buynaksk, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime introduced on April 19 has been cancelled. This was reported by the operational headquarters for Dagestan.

The case against Ibadullo Nabotov, a staff member of a Dagestani mosque, who was detained on suspicion of illegal possession of weapons and narcotic substances, was fabricated. This was stated by the administration of the mosque, where the detainee worked.

For Armenia, the recognition of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 by Turkey remains an important issue on the agenda. According to Armenian experts, the question of the compensation claims against the Turkish side has not yet been included in the agenda and requires nationwide discussions within the country.

During the week of April 13-19, 2015, at least 8 people were killed in armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The murder of Aliaskhab Kebekov, the leader of the banned terrorist organization "Imarat Kavkaz", will lead to greater influence of the "Islamic State" in Northern Caucasus. This opinion was expressed by researcher Akhmet Yarlykapov and journalist Orkhan Djemal.

A new criminal case instituted against Mikhail Savva for fraud originates from the case against the information training centre "Levados", which was originally opened against Elena Shablo, its Director. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Marina Dubrovina, an advocate of Professor Mikhail Savva.