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As a result of a ceasefire violation on the troops contact line, Arsen Khachatryan, a regular soldier of the Karabakh Defence Army, was wounded, said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).

Residents of households located in Svanidze Street, partially destroyed during the June flooding in Tbilisi are afraid to return home. They state that until now the city Mayoralty has not requested their documents for payment of compensations.

A group of protesters in Bagramyan Avenue in Yerevan is preparing provocations in order to "escalate the situation," said a source from the Police of Armenia.

An agreement of Russian authorities and the victims of the terror act committed in Beslan in 2004, who filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), is possible only if an independent and impartial investigation into the terror act, said members of the "Mothers of Beslan" Committee.

Non-governmental and human rights organizations have disseminated an open appeal to the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Georgia to immediately conduct an investigation into the beating in Tbilisi of Arthur Babayan and Philip Oganezyan.

In the Krasnodar Territory, the appellate court has cancelled the decision to extend the custody of Khavazh Temirsultanov, a native of Chechnya, accused of robbery. The case was returned to the court of Sochi.

The Adler District Court has scheduled for July 6 the continuation of the consideration of the case of Anna Gritsevich, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, on disobedience to police, and for July 7 – the case of ecologist Vladimir Kimaev.

In the course of the 32nd round of Geneva debates, delegates of Georgia and Russia have discussed the issues of security and the right to get education in one's mother tongue. The Georgian party has criticized Russia for its military exercises in Abkhazia and the violation of airspace.

A monument to repressed residents of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) was opened in the city park of Nalchik.

A large summer base of militants was blocked in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, said a local law enforcement source.

A fighter aircraft MiG-29 has crashed down near the aerodrome Kuschevskaya in the Krasnodar Territory. There are no victims and no damage.

A court in Chechnya has sentenced Alaudin Menlibaev, a resident of the Stavropol Territory, finding him guilty of the attack in 1999 on the village of Chervlyonnaya, committed under command of Khattab.

The Special Investigation Service of Armenia has declared the unlawful use of force against protesters on June 23, and the institution of a criminal case in this context.

On July 2, the Adler District Court of Sochi began considering the case of disobeying the police in relation to the ecologist Vladimir Kimaev and Anna Gritsevich, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. The court granted the defence's motion to watch the video from the place of detention of the journalist and the ecologist.

Today, at 3:00 a.m. Moscow time, in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, law enforcement bodies started their counterterrorist operation (CTO). The legal CTO regime was introduced at 3:00 Moscow time, the operative headquarters of Dagestan has reported.

According to coordinators of the protest action against the increase of electricity tariff, last night about 100 protesters stayed in Yerevan, in Bagramyan Avenue.

The Krasnodar Territorial Court has dismissed the appeal complaints against the decision of the District court of Sochi, which had granted the petition lodged by pensioner Nina Dubovaya about return of her land plot.

Arutyun Arutyunyan and Ayk Parikyan stopped their hunger strike against the increase of the electricity tariff in Armenia; both activists were taken to hospital.

The beaten and kidnapped blogger Vyacheslav Starodubets has stopped his series of solo pickets in Makhachkala. According to his story, officials from the administration of the head of Dagestan promised to help in the investigation of his criminal case.

The squeezing of North-Caucasian problems out of focus of public by the anti-Western and anti-Ukrainian rhetoric has led to increased positive attitude towards the situation in Northern Caucasus. This was the comment of "Levada Centre" experts on the outcome of their social poll, conducted on June 19-22.