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The order given by the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov to his law enforcement bodies to hold a talk with the relatives of the alleged killers of policeman in Grozny is in fact a hint to a possibility of applying violence to the relatives, said the human rights activist Lev Levinson.

The Georgian oppositional "United National Movement" (UNM) and "Democratic Movement – United Georgia" Parties have stated that by scheduling the second round of municipal elections for July 12, the Central Election Commission (CEC) violated the Electoral Code.

The court in Sochi has dismissed the claim of the Mayoralty asking to recognize the construction of the building illegal and demolish the unfinished structure built near the land plot of pensioner Nina Dubovaya.

In Dagestan, locals have reported that the parishioners detained in various mosques were released. In his turn, a source from the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) said that they had detained people without documents to establish their identity.

The defence plans to appeal against the verdict passed to Omar Mamedov, a member of the "Civil Solidarity Party" (CSP) and the "Nida" movement, and a Facebook activist, sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment on charges of drug dealing. His advocates believe that the verdict was politically motivated.

The Nizami District Court of the Azerbaijani city of Ganja (Gandzha) has finished the judicial inquiry into the case opened against Gasan Guseinli, the head of the NGO "Intellectual Citizen" Educational Centre, who is accused of hooliganism.

Communists will not nominate their candidate for the governor of the Volgograd Region at the upcoming election instead of Nikolai Parshin, suspected of a fraud, because they have no time to submit the required documents.

Starting July 1, checks and mopping-up of the wooded area are undertaken near the villages of Maidanskoe and Balakhani in the Untsukul District of Dagestan, as locals told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

A resident of the settlement of Kenzhe from Nalchik has stated that her son was beaten up at school. The statement that she sent to investigating authorities and rights defenders says that the school directress was the child abuser, and asks to bring her to justice.

Elbrus Karibov, a native of the Magaramkent District of Dagestan, was detained at the Baku airport on June 21, and still his whereabouts are unknown, said his wife Amina Tkhakakhova. The MIAs of Azerbaijan and Dagestan did not confirm the detention of Elbrus Karibov.

The man killed on July 3 in Grozny, who is considered by power agent as the murderer of the policeman on June 22, was identified as Khusein Dakhtaev, a resident of the Urus-Martan District of Chechnya, who was wanted for participation in illegal armed formations (IAFs), law enforcement bodies of the republic report.

On July 9, the Supreme Court of Dagestan plans to consider the appeal complaint against the verdict passed to Zarema Bagavutdinova, an activist of the DRPO "Pravozaschita", who was sentenced to five years in prison on charges of promoting the terrorist activities, said her advocate.

The delegations of Azerbaijan and Georgia have supported the declaration of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE PA), which states the necessity to respect the principles of inviolability of state borders and supports the territorial integrity of Ukraine.

In Azerbaijan, investigators have not allowed the journalist Rauf Mirkadirov, who is under arrest on charges of high treason, to take part in the commemoration ceremony on the 40th day after his father's death. The General Prosecutor's Office explained the refusal by a late advocates' appeal to investigators on the matter, the Mirkadirov's defence has reported.

In the capital of Dagestan, 23 activists of the movement "I'm President's Assistant" were detained; four of them were hospitalized from the police station with traumas. At the moment, all the detainees are at large, said the movement.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has satisfied the complaints "Amadaev vs. Russia" and "Antaev et al. vs. Russia", where the applicants are the Chechens living in the Kurgan Region. They were awarded a total of 145,000 euros as compensation of suffered moral harm.

The Sumgait Court of Appeal (CoA) in Azerbaijan has commuted the punishment to the young activist Elsever Mursalli by reducing his prison term from five to two years. This decision followed the statement disseminated by the activist that he had quitted the "Nida" youth movement and would support the course of President Ilham Aliev.

The inmate of Corrective Colony No. 1, located in the village of Tlyustenkhabl in the Republic of Adygea, died from beatings. A group of other inmates is suspected of inflicting his fatal injuries.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has considered the Georgia's complaint about the mass deportation of Georgian citizens in 2006 and found violation by Russia of several provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

As reported by a source from law enforcement bodies of Chechnya, the killer of the policeman in Grozny, who was searched by power agents, was shot dead while rendering armed resistance in the Staropromyslovsky District of the Chechen capital; nobody was hurt from among law enforcers.