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Today, a district of Makhachkala was put under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in connection with a search for militants there.

Armenian Ombudsman Karen Andreasyan has called on law enforcement bodies to immediately conduct an objective investigation and bring the policeman who had slapped an elderly protester to responsibility.

During the dispersal of the protest action in the city of Mingachevir, four policemen suffered, says the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan.

Today, Sergey Kaziev, who was convicted of the attack on Nalchik and then died at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), was buried in the cemetery of Nalchik.

Next year, authorities of North Ossetia intend to allocate 324 million roubles of budget funds for the implementation of investment programmes. At the same time, officials admit that the republic’s capacity of co-financing the programmes are limited.

In the shelling of the OMON (riot police) employee in the Dagestani village of Novy Khushet, two persons were killed – his relative, also a policeman, and his 15-year-old son. His father was hospitalized in grave condition.

The powers of the policeman, who gave a slap to an elderly demonstrator, have been suspended for the time of the official investigation.

The murder of Zamirbek Makhmutov, Deputy Imam of the village of Irgakly, Stavropol Territory, cannot be associated with intra-religious conflicts, said the members of the Nogai community. They fear that the murder will not be solved, like many other similar crimes committed in the region.

Two Chechen policemen were wounded during an operation held in the Dagestani city of Khasavyurt aimed to detain a member of the armed underground, said the spokesman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya.

The advocate of Ramzan Belyalov, a native of Chechnya, accused of involvement in the bandit attack on the city of Budyonnovsk, has sent a complaint to Alexander Bastrykin, the Chairman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), stating an infringement of his client's right to a fair trial and investigators' unwillingness to check Belyalov's alibi.

As a result of enhanced security measures near the Gimry Tunnel, traffic through it highly complicated, local residents report. The checks have to do with a murder of an engineer in the Gunib District, said the police's spokesman.

The verdict of the first-instance court, which had cancelled the decision to stop the investigation into the beating of the lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova at the police, was legitimate, the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has ruled.

Six persons were brought to the police during a rally held by the public movement "Arise, Armenia!" in Yerevan.

The women killed in a Grozny café were cousins, and one of them owned the very café. Investigators consider the basic version of the crime as an "honour killing".

The law enforcement authorities of Chechnya suspect Ramzan and Magomed Yusupov, residents of the Shatoi District, and Anzor Uzuev, a native of Grozny, of involvement in the combat actions on the side of the "Islamic State".

The law enforcers' failure to investigate crimes against Muslim religious leaders in the Stavropol Territory aggravates the interreligious interethnic relations. This opinion has been expressed by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". However, the experts differed in the evaluation of possible motives for the murder of Zamirbek Makhmutov, the Deputy Imam of the village of Irgakly.

In Sochi, members of public organizations of disabled persons call on the authorities to pay attention to the unavailability of the sea for people with disabilities. Officials from the Mayor's Office argue that the city has developed and operates the "Barrier-free Sochi" map; however, disabled persons themselves argue that the barrier-free accesses to the sea marked on the map do not really exist.

Sergey Kaziev, who died in the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Nalchik, was sentenced to 14.5 years of imprisonment for episodes of the attacks on the OVD-1 (Interior Division) and shop "Arsenal". Prior to sentencing, Sergey Kaziev was under recognizance not to leave, and in his final speech, he asked the court not to deprive him of his liberty.

The Cassation Court of Armenia (CCA) has found Argishti Kiviryan, a coordinator of the online newspaper "Armenia Today", earlier sentenced for use of violence against a policeman, not guilty and granted the appeal filed by his advocates.

In his final speech in the case against journalist Khadija Ismayilova, the prosecutor has asked the Baku Court of Grave Crimes to sentence the defendant to 9 years of imprisonment.