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Because of the financial crisis in Greece, money transfers to Georgia have dropped by 15-16 million US dollars. Many migrants, who had left for Greece to earn money, have their revenues reduced, and now think about return to Georgia.

The international organization "Human Rights Watch" (HRW) has urged the authorities of Armenia to punish those responsible for the use of force to disperse demonstrators in Bagramyan Avenue in Yerevan on June 23. Rights defenders have called the police to conduct a transparent investigation into the incident.

Protesters in Yerevan have handed over an application to the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO), demanding to punish the policemen, who used force at dispersal of the demonstration on June 23.

The minimum amount of the religious tax Zakat-ul-Fitr (poor-due), which should be paid to needy Muslims before the holiday of Eid al-Adha, was defined by religious leaders of Southern Russia. The highest Zakat of 380 roubles was fixed for parishioners of Salafi mosques of Dagestan.

As stated by Musa Tairov's relatives, power agents prevented his discharge from a hospital in Krasnodar, where he was taken from a police station. On July 15, Tairov's questioning as a witness is scheduled, said his advocate.

The jury has found Ilya Goryachev, the supposed organizer of the "Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists" (known as BORN), guilty on all indictment points. The defendant deserves no leniency, said the jurymen.

The North-Caucasian District Military Court has sentenced six defendants in the case of the terror act committed in front of the GIBDD (traffic police) building in Pyatigorsk in 2013. The defendants have been sentenced to terms ranging from 17 years to life imprisonment.

As stated by Alexander Savenkov, the head of the Investigating Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia, the service check found no confirmation of the complaints about the police's inaction during the pogrom of the Grozny office of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG).

The three persons killed in a special operation in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) were members of the illegal armed formation (IAF), responsible for numerous murders committed in the KBR and the Stavropol Territory, said the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) of Russia.

The case of the massacre Gyumri has not been delivered to Armenia yet. According to the Armenian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO), the timing for the transfer has not been defined; however, the trial will be held in Armenia.

The defence of Rustam Gabibov, a resident of Dagestan, accused of a murder, has filed a complaint about non-provision of adequate medical care to him at SIZO-1 (pre-trial prison) of Nalchik, said the advocate Sapiyat Magomedova.

The protest actions against the increase of electricity tariff, as well as the massacre of the Avetisyan family in Gyumri, have not quarrelled Armenia with Russia, despite the presence of the Russian factor on both of them. This opinion was expressed by Armenian political analysts, who believe that the reason is in the absence of anti-Russian sentiments in Armenia.

In the Baksan District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), the power agents discovered a base with militants, who opened fire and were killed. The area is under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime.

A Russian businessman German Sterligov has categorically rejected suspicions of his links with the Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists (known as BORN) and announced the preparation of social and business projects to be implemented in the territory of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).

According to the ruling of the court in Adler, Khavazh Temirsultanov, who is accused of robbery, should stay at the place of his registration – in Chechnya.

Musa Musaev, who was appointed to the post of Acting Mayor of Makhachkala, represents the interests of the "Mekegin" clan, which includes also the head of the republic's government Abdusamad Gamidov. This was stated by the journalists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has found lawful the investigators' actions of non-admitting the advocate of the "Committee against Torture" (CaT) Evgeny Gubin to Zaur Dadaev, a native of Chechnya, involved in Boris Nemtsov's murder case.

Because of bad organization of repair works, the city of Derbent is all the time suffering from water, electricity and gas outages, locals complain. Milrad Fatullaev, the editor-in-chief of the "Nastoyascheye Vremya", said that the last major reconstruction of the city was carried out half a century ago.

The Supreme Court of Chechnya has rejected the complaint lodged by the defence of Muslim Akhmaev, who was detained in the same group with a student Varvara Karaulova on the border with Syria, about the decision to arrest him.

Foreign non-profit organizations (NPOs) that implement educational and religious projects in Northern Caucasus will be added to the "patriotic stop-list" in order to later stop their work in Russia. This was stated by Ilyas Umakhanov, the Vice-Speaker of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation.