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In Yerevan, Narek Akopyan, a participant of the protest against the increase of electricity tariff, who was detained in June 2015, is accused of using violence against an authority. The prosecutor asks the court to sentence Akopyan to six months of freedom deprivation.

The Goychay Court of Azerbaijan has found the rights defender Talekh Khasmamedov guilty of hooliganism and sentenced him to three years of freedom deprivation.

On July 21, advocates of Anna Gritsevich, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, and ecologist Vladimir Kimaev submitted a statement demanding to open a criminal case against Sochi policemen to the Investigating Division of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for the Adler District of Sochi.

Today, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has announced disappearance of Zaurbek Zhamaldaev, a native of Chechnya, who was deported from Poland.

Unidentified attackers opened fire on border guards in the Kuibyshev District of the Rostov Region; one of them was wounded and hospitalized.

The Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has demanded from the non-profit organizations (NPOs) placed on the registry of foreign agents, including those working in Northern Caucasus, to indicate that the material published by them are being disseminated by an NPO-foreign agent.

As part of the agreements signed by Russia and Armenia, the first session on the case of the mass murder in Gyumri is to be held before August 10 in the territory of the 102nd Russian military base, the newspaper "Zhamanak" writes today with reference to its sources.

Azerbaijan has arrested, on charges of illegal drug dealing, Rufat Zakhidov, a nephew of Ganimat Zakhid (Zakhidov), the editor-in-chief of the oppositional newspaper "Azadlyg" (Freedom), who is now in political emigration. This is the third relative of Ganimat Zakhidov arrested within the past three days.

The advocates of the rights defender Intigam Aliev have disagreed with the decision of the Court of Appeal (CoA), which has upheld the verdict to the activist. They believe that Aliev's guilt was not proved; and he was convicted on the basis of the prosecution, built on investigators' assumptions.

One of the two suspected militants killed at night on July 17 in the Derbent District of Dagestan has been identified, said his relative. The Derbent ROVD (District Interior Division) has not confirmed the identification information.

An Austrian court has sentenced Magomed Zakriev, a native of Chechnya, to five years in prison. He was found guilty of participating in the activities of the so-called "Islamic State" (IS), which has been recognized as a terrorist organization.

As reported by locals, Sayat Gadjimagomedova, a resident of the Dagestani village of Gotsatl and the wife of a suspected militant Magomed Gadjimagomedov, was released home by power agents on July 20.

A complaint against the decision to send the case of Nadezhda Savchenko to the Donetsk City Court in the Rostov Region was lodged by her defence to the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Russia.

According to unconfirmed data, Nartan Kylych, a graduate of the State University of Kabardino-Balkaria, was killed by the suicide bombing, committed in the Turkish city of Suruch, located on the border with Syria. His mother was killed with him, users of social networks report.

At the court session in Rostov-on-Don, the Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, accused of creating a terrorist community and plotting terror acts in the Crimea, has declared his innocence and political motivation of the case against him.

Today, the Baku Court of Appeal (CoA) has upheld the verdict to rights defender Intigam Aliev in the case of his tax evasion, illegal entrepreneurship, and a large-scale misappropriation or embezzlement. The defence intends to appeal against the verdict.

The European Council treats the actions of the South-Ossetian party of installing border signs on the border with Georgia as an attempt to destabilize the situation in the region, Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council (EC), said at a press conference in Tbilisi. The EC does not recognize the independence of South Ossetia, he said.

During his psychiatric examination, Zaur Dadaev, the main figurant in the Boris Nemtsov's murder case, told doctors that he had been contused during the militants' attack on Grozny. This was two months before the assassination of Nemtsov.

The constitutional reforms offered by the Commission for Constitutional Reforms in Armenia will create a one-party ruling system, which, in its turn, will contribute to reproduction of power. The absence of partisan competition will hinder democratic development, local experts said at a press conference in Yerevan on July 20.

About 30 Sochi residents came to the opening of the monument to corruption, which was built by the spouses Lyubov Berchanova and Vasily Zhuravlyov in the place of their house, demolished in 2013 in fulfilment of the court judgement.