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16 residents of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), who left for Syria at different times, are suspected of involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs) in the territory of this country.

All the dwelling settlements, located in the Alagir District, along the Ardon River, have problems with wastewater treatment, said the spokesperson for the "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consuming Supervision) for North Ossetia.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has satisfied the complaint of Maria Fanzieva, a native of Kabardino-Balkaria, who declared a violent death of her daughter at a police station. The applicant was awarded 30,000 euros.

Power agents drove away to some unknown place Akhmed Abazov, a resident of the village of Dugulubgei, said his father Edward. Akhmed is a brother of Murat Abazov, who perished in 2013 in an explosion of the village mosque.

Residents of Georgia, acting on their own initiative, are actively participating in restoration works after the flooding in Tbilisi and help the victims. Volunteers have deployed canteens and first aid centres, and coordinate their work through social networks.

Today is 20 years since signing an agreement with Chechen fighters, who captured the hospital in the city of Budyonnovsk, which then led to release of hostages. By the date, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has presented the original of the agreement, kept in the archives of the centre.

In 2014, the number of refugees in the world increased by 2.8 million, and amounted to 19.5 million, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) published on the eve of the World Refugee Day.

The Tbilisi City Court has ruled to put in custody the four persons accused of involvement in the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS), said the press service of the court.

In the evening on June 17, in the outskirt of the village of Verkhni Djalgan of the Derbent District of Dagestan, a local school teacher, who worked at haymaking in military uniform, was shot dead. Investigators believe that militants have to do with the crime, a law enforcement source has reported.

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has dismissed the request, lodged by Tamerlan Eskerkhanov, a figurant in the Nemtsov's murder case, to open a criminal case on the torture, allegedly applied to him by law enforcers, the "Kommersant" reports.

The routine monitoring by the OSCE mission of the troops contact line in the area of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict passed without incidents, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).

The fight of Russian authorities against the armed underground in Dagestan is accompanied by serious human rights violations, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) states in its report, which has also documented a number of militants' crimes.

In North Ossetia, the commissioning of over of a water disinfection station constructed on the Gusarin water main – one of the three sources of drinking water in the city of Alagir.

On June 17, the Sovietskiy District Court of Makhachkala upheld the complaint on investigators' inaction in relation to the application about the beating of local resident Arslan Khairullin by law enforcers, said the advocate Elena Denisenko.

An advocate of Kurban Askandarov, an advocate of the Deputy Imam of one of the mosques of Makhachkala, has filed a complaint to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). In his complaint, the advocate claims that investigators have violated his client's rights.

Investigators decided to question Zurab Gurielidze, the Tbilisi Zoo Director, and his deputies in the case of the tiger's attack on a person.

The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Georgia believes the deaths from the flooding could result from a breach of safety precautions committed during the construction of buildings lately destroyed by the natural calamity.

Georgia does not continue criminal proceedings against Giya Lortkipanidze, who on June 16 was appointed the head of the Odessa Police. This was stated by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". The Georgian Prosecutor's Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) have no claims against Giya Lortkipanidze, the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party reports.

Nizami Agamirov, a resident of Dagestan, hospitalized with two gunshot wounds, is suspected of an attempt on the lives of policemen and arms trafficking.

The Committee against Torture (CaT) will continue its activities in Grozny at the apartment, which has been provided by a daughter of Natalia Estemirova, a staff member of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", who was killed in 2009.