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The statements of the parties of the Karabakh conflict on the current escalation are contradictory and do not allow defining the party, whose actions have resulted in aggravation of the situation. There is a real war in the border area, believe bloggers of the "Caucasian Knot".

Residents of Northern Caucasus have a demand for a democratic modernization of the region and its inclusion into the all-Russian legal environment, says the report "Northern Caucasus and Modern Model of Democratic Development".

As a result of shelling by Azerbaijan of Karabakh positions, a boy born in 2004 was killed, an two other kids were wounded by a shell rupture, said the MoD of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). There are victims on both sides of the conflict, said Artsruni Ovannisyan, the head of the press service of the Armenian Army.

Tonight, the air defence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has brought down a helicopter of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan; there are casualties, said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the unrecognized republic. The Azerbaijani party denies it.

A series of local fights are on between the armed forces of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) and Azerbaijan, which broke out this night, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports. The enemy has shelled a number of dwelling settlements, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the NKR has stated.

At the trial of the case of massacring the Avetisyan family in Gyumri, the prosecutor announced the results of the examination performed by the Russian party by using a polygraph (lie detector). Permyakov had no intention to enter the particular house of Avetisyans, said the advocate of the victims.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan has upheld the demand of the "Ghasr" to dismantle the mobile operator's tower from a historic building in central Baku.

In the cities of Prokhladny and Stavropol, power agents had planted extremist materials on Jehovah's Witnesses, who held their worship, said the Administrative Centre of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. The believers think that the authorities are implementing their targeted policy of combating the religious community.

A request to press on the Azerbaijani authorities to stop harassing the independent press and civil society, as well as for to release political prisoners was addressed by the journalist Khadija Ismayilova to the US President.

The boy, who was allegedly beaten up by an Italian citizen-his adopter, is in hospital with a suspected brain concussion. His condition is satisfactory; no mental traumas have been revealed.

The advocates for the defendants in the murder case of the Azerbaijani journalist Rasim Aliev have not agreed with the verdict handed down today by the court and intend to appeal against it. His father expressed dissatisfaction with the court judgement, because the doctors who had treated his were not made liable.

Rights defenders have demanded to release Pyotr Parpulov, an air traffic controller from Sochi, accused of high treason.

Five defendants in the murder case of the Azerbaijani journalist Rasim Aliev have been sentenced to prison terms from 9 to 13 years.

The Chechen Prosecutor's Office has found no attributes of public calls for extremist activities in the statements of Ramzan Kadyrov about the opposition. This was announced by Maxim Reznik, an MP of the Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg.

The Yerevan police have detained two men suspected of assassinating Karen Vardanyan, a civil activist and blogger. He was announced as missing since March 17; and his body was found in a garage in Yerevan, the capital of the Republic of Armenia.

Nariman Bashirov, suspected of preparing an explosion of the motor convoy of the MIA in Dagestan, may be involved in several other resonant crimes, the "Kommersant" newspaper writes.

The Russian Volleyball Federation has filed a protest in connection with the incident in Istanbul during the final match of the European Confederation of Volleyball (ECV) Cup of the local "Galatasaray" with the "Dynamo" from Krasnodar, Vitaly Mutko, the Russian Sports Minister, have stated.

In total, 45.2% of traffic accidents that occurred in the Volgograd Region in 2015 were in some way related with the unsatisfactory state of roads, said Alexander Kravchenko the head of the Regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

Participants of the picket in defence of the 31st Article of the Constitution spoke in support of political prisoners, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The census, conducted by activists of the public organization "Ochag" (Hearth) aims to study the situation with repatriate families in order to provide those in need with targeted help. Their main problem is the issue of employment, activists report.