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In connection with the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, MPs of Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) adopted appeals calling on all countries throughout the world to recognize the Armenian Genocide as a crime against humanity.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has dismissed the advocates' appeals against the resolutions on arrests of Tamerlan Eskerkhanov and Shagid Gubashev, accused in the case of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov. The Court has refused to change pre-trial restriction measure against both defendants and replace it with the form not involving deprivation of liberty.

In the Znaur District of South Ossetia, KGB officers found a hiding containing anti-tank missile complexes and anti-tank grenade launchers.

The murder of Aliaskhab Kebekov left the terrorist organization "Imarat Kavkaz" without the actual leader; however, that fact is unlikely to lead to the dominance of the "Islamic State" (IS), despite the split among North-Caucasus militants. This opinion was expressed by analysts.

At the request of Anzor Gubashev, one of the defendants in the case of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow has dismissed the advocate Magomed Mamaev from his duties to defend Anzor Gubashev.

In Baku, the court has found human rights defender Intigam Aliev guilty on all the charges and sentenced him to 7.5 years of imprisonment in a common-security penal colony.

At the request of investigators, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow has extended the arrest of Khamzat Bakhaev, a defendant in the case of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, for four months, until August 28.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has left in custody Tamerlan Eskerkhanov, a defendant in the case of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov.

South Ossetian President Leonid Tibilov has dismissed David Sanakoev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The name of the new Minister of Foreign Affairs has not yet been announced.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has granted the motion of the investigating authorities and extended the arrest of Anzor Gubashev, a defendant in the case of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, for four months, until August 28.

The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has condemned the verdict of guilty announced in Azerbaijan against Rasul Jafarov.

At the request of an advocate of Zaur Dadaev, a defendant in the case of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow has postponed the consideration of the advocate's complaint filed about non-admission to the defence.

A female resident of the Urus-Martan District of Chechnya was detained by field investigators in Kabardino-Balkaria, while she was trying to fly to Turkey for further travelling to Syria to join her groom.

Alexander Tkachov has resigned from his post of the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory and led the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. On Wednesday, the relevant decree was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Sapiyat Magomedova, an advocate from Dagestan, has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to start communication in her complaint against the law enforcement bodies for delaying the investigation into the case of her beating in 2010.

The Stavropol Regional Court has refused to hold a re-investigation into the decisions announced by Judge Oleg Popov of the Predgorny District Court in the trial on the case against Kislovodsk Imam Kurman-Ali Baichorov.

The Ministries of Defence (MoDs) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) and Azerbaijan report about victims on the troops' contact line. According to different sources, from one to five persons were killed; and some others were wounded.

The guilt of journalist Boris Stomakhin sentenced on charges of justification of the terror acts committed in Volgograd has not been proven by the court, and thus, the sentence is to be cancelled. This was stated by Svetlana Sidorkina, a defender of Boris Stomakhin. Prosecutors believe the available evidence is sufficient.

In the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, power agents seized from a hiding firearms and ammunition belonging to militants.

Advocates of residents of Dagestan sentenced in the case of the terror act, which killed Sheikh Said Afandi al-Chirkawi, have called the verdict too severe and claimed numerous contradictions in the case.