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Gigi Ugulava, the former Mayor of Tbilisi, detained on Thursday at the airport of the Georgian capital, is questioned at the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), said his advocate Georgy Gelkhauri. According to the lawyer, the detention of his client was accompanied by numerous violations.

Rizvan Aliev, who was killed last night in Makhachkala, was involved in the commission of several major terror acts, including the blowing up the road-and-post service (DPS) post in May 2012, says the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

Investigating authorities of Armenia suspect a number of policemen of abuse of office during a protest action in Yerevan, the press centre of the Special Investigative Service of the Republic has informed.

A court in Moscow has found Khabib Umakhanov guilty of killing Alimsoltan Alkhamatov, the head of the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, and sentenced him to 15 years in a high security colony, said the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Eight persons who passed through the commission for militants' adaptation received real prison terms; the remaining 59 were employed the head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov told the "Caucasian Knot" in his clarification of the information published by the newspaper "Kommersant".

As reported by the Dagestani Prosecutor's Office, six employees of the Department of Education, 24 secondary school directors and more than 300 teachers of the Magaramkent District have been brought to the disciplinary responsibility for pupils' poor results at the Unified State Exams (USE) in the region of Dagestan ski involved, said.

The Investigating Department (ID) of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) conducts the investigation into the criminal case instituted against three staff members of the GIBDD (road police) of the KBR.

At the summer session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE PA), held in Baku, a resolution was adopted saying about the need to observe the principles of inviolability of state borders and expressing support for the territorial integrity of Ukraine.

Riziuan Kamgotov, a resident of the village of Lechinkay, Chegem District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), has stated that he had been tortured by law enforcers. According to his story, a criminal case on possession of narcotic drugs and explosives was fabricated against him.

After the July 2 decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the First Instance Court of Yerevan starts reconsidering the case of the family of Emma Tunyan, who was evicted from her house back in 2003. This is reported by the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC).

Tatiana Kapustina, a wheelchair Category I invalid from Sochi, has stated that she could not get to the appointment at the Mayoralty, because her car was not let into the yard, equipped for disabled people. The police patrol, which prevented her entry, said that she had no necessary document.

In Azerbaijan, at the court deliberations, the defence of Omar Mamedov, a member of the "Civil Solidarity Party" and a Facebook activist, accused of illegal drug dealing, stated the political motives of the criminal prosecution of the defendant. His lawyer Alaif Gasanov said that there is no evidence of Mamedov's guilt in the case files.

On July 1, the state of emergency (SoE) was introduced in the Volgograd Region because of the dense inflow of Ukrainian citizens from the warfare are, the regional government has reported.

The Kebekov's statement about the unacceptability of terror acts against the civilian population may indicate his desire to improve the image of the "Imarat Kavkaz" in the eyes of the general population. However, it is too early to speak about any change of militants' tactics, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

In the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), the Prosecutor's Office has approved the indictment in the criminal case against Eduard Khodorkovsky, detained in June 2013 and accused of involvement in an illegal armed formation (IAF). The criminal case has been brought to court.

As reported by the press service of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), on June 30, the 29 hunger-striking life prisoners stopped their protest after the call of the Minister.

In a video record posted on the Internet, Ali Abu-Mukhammad Kebekov, the leader of the organization "Imarat Kavkaz", which had been recognized in the Russian Federation as a terrorist organization, has announced inadmissibility of inflicting damage to life and property of civilians.

In Azerbaijan, local security agents have disrupted the meeting of Ali Kerimli, the leader of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), with a group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), who came to Baku to hold a session of the Parliamentary Assembly (PA) of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe).

Residents of the city of Derbent have reported on the long-lasting shooting, evacuation of a residential neighbourhood and electricity cut-off during the special operation, held in Derbent at night of June 26.

The final cost of the programme of preparation to the Sochi Winter Olympic Games has amounted to 1.524 trillion roubles, including VAT. This was announced by the statement of operations for 2013, published by the state corporation "Olimpstroy".