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Hovik Abrahamyan, the former Speaker of the Parliament and former Prime Minister of Armenia, has been detained on the charge of money laundering.

Investigators are engaged in checking the circumstances of the death in an orphanage in Morozovsk of a 15-year-old girl who was subjected to domestic violence. Teachers and officials were aware of the teenager’s troubles, but failed to take any appropriate actions, investigation suggested.

Defendants in a criminal case on the shooting in front of the “Wildberries” Company’s office “due to non-involvement” would not be released without the participation of the Chechen authorities, human rights defenders believe. If the three defendants who remain under arrest are also released or sign military contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD), the criminal case will be suspended.

At least 500,000, and preferably a million people, should be mobilized and trained to fight. This proposal has been voiced today by Apti Alaudinov, the commander of the “Akhmat” special forces, when he was commenting on the Israel’s strikes on Iran.

Volunteers, with the help of the police, freed eleven people who were kept at an enterprise in the Slavyansky District of the Krasnodar Territory. The Prosecutor’s Office of the Krasnodar Territory has launched an inspection.

The beaches of the city of Kaspiysk are full of vacationers, despite the ban by “Rospotrebnadzor” (Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing) on bathing in these places, local residents have informed. Authorities must resolve the issue of wastewater discharge into the sea if they want to develop tourism in Dagestan, a local journalist has stated.

Policemen have forced protesters who spent the night near the university in Tbilisi to leave the roadway.

The third stage of prisoners-of-war (POWs) exchange with Ukraine was held in accordance with the agreements reached on June 2 in Istanbul, Shamsail Saraliev, a Russian State Duma MP from Chechnya, has reported today.

The Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) have intervened in the situation that arose after the harsh statements by Schema-Abbot Gavriil and Apti Alaudinov, the commander of the “Akhmat” Special Forces, while the Kremlin has preferred to remain aside, analysts believe.

The current situation with the conscription in Dagestan is not entirely clear, and people lack information. There were no so many complaints about the law enforcers’ actions even against the backdrop of mobilization. But in each case, it is necessary to figure out whether there are actually violations of rights, abuse of power, and then, if necessary, these actions are to be challenged, note interviewed journalists from Dagestan.

The new Georgian law on “foreign agents” has forced the United Kingdom to withdraw grant proposals to support the transparency of municipal elections scheduled for October.

The Ministry of Nationalities and Public Projects of Kabardino-Balkaria has sent recommendations to Moscow on revising the federal draft law on repatriation based on an appeal from Circassian activists who criticized the discriminatory nature of the draft law due to the mandatory requirement for knowledge of Russian.

The Georgian authorities have expelled Temur Katamadze (Gafar Yilmaz), who has become a symbol of the anti-government protests in Batumi, to Turkey.

The recognizance not to leave the place prescribed to the Chechen law enforcers, who had kidnapped the blogger Areg Schepikhin, has clearly shown that the case will be closed or the kidnappers will formally sign contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD). This fits into the trend of impunity of Chechen law enforcers.

Within the last four months, the list of Azeri political prisoners has been replenished with more than 20 names of journalists, oppositionists, activists and believers.

Anton Chechin, a Russian citizen, was beaten up by employees of the Tbilisi prison after he asked to be transferred to a non-smoking cell. The beaten Chechin was placed into a dungeon (punishment cell) for several hours and only then received some medical care.

An appeal not to demand the reinstatement of Schema-Abbot Gavriil as the rector of the Sochi metochion in the Valaam Monastery has been posted in a Telegram channel where the priest’s sermons are collected. The “Sorok Sorokov” (Forty Forties) Orthodox movement continues its campaign demanding that Apti Alaudinov be punished for his words about the Orthodox priest.

In Rostov-on-Don, a military court sentenced Larisa Gavrilenko to sixteen years of imprisonment, finding her guilty of attempting to blow up a truck transporting military personnel.

In Tbilisi, unidentified persons attacked participants of the “March of Unity” who were distributing newspapers with letters from political prisoners. Supporters of the Georgia’s European integration blocked Rustaveli Avenue on the 195th day of the protests.

A man who was planning to commit a terror act in the administrative building at one of the energy facilities has been detained in the Krasnodar Territory.