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The Sochi police have sent an application to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) asking to bring the builder Mardiros Demerchyan, who had claimed being tortured at the police station of the village of Blinovo, to liability for slander.

The reasons for the increased cost of Olympic facilities and the rising expenses for the Olympics-2014 are in the corruption and Olympic-scale of fund embezzlement, said Boris Nemtsov, a co-chairman of the Party "RPR-Parnas", who presented in Sochi his report "Winter Olympics in Subtropics".

The court has granted the petition of the investigation and put the former Dagestani parliamentarian from the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party Magomed Magomedov, who was detained on suspicion of organizing mass riots with the aim of helping militants during a special operation. in custody.

On June 29, the Lankaran District Court of Azerbaijan ruled to restrict the freedom of Yadigar Sadygov, an advisor to the head of the oppositional "Musavat" Party, who is accused of hooliganism, by a two-month-long arrest. His defence intends to appeal against the ruling at the appeal instance.

Soltan Semyonov, the incumbent Mayor of Karachaevsk, was put on the wanted list, Sergey Shuvaev, Senior Assistant to the Head of the Investigating Department for Karachay-Cherkessia of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

At night on June 29, in the Dagestani city of Khasavyurt, four unidentified masked men armed with submachine guns blew up the house of a businessman; nobody suffered in the incident, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan reports.

The Union of Journalists of Dagestan has announced an international contest on the design of a monument to fallen journalists.

As stated on June 28 by Evgeniy Semchenko, the head of the department for assessing the education quality of the "Rosobrnadzor" (Russian Federal Supervisory Service in Education and Sciences), more than 30 officials from education bodies and schools of Dagestan will be dismissed for violations during the unified state examination (USE).

On June 28, 40 persons took part in a protest action held in front of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Armenia demanding immediate release and acquittal of the four young activists of the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC), now kept in custody.

The parliamentary faction of the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party in Georgia stops its work in the supreme legislative body of the country and starts its political boycott in protest against the detention of senior officials of Tbilisi Mayoralty, said the MP Levan Bezhashvili.

In the course of the talks in Geneva on security in Southern Caucasus, delegates of the conflict regions made an attempt to leave one working group and continue working in another one. The co-chairs banned the precedent and stopped the security working group, said the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, explaining the disruption of the talks.

Law enforcement bodies of Armenia are preparing to launch inquiry into activities of Narek Sarkisyan, the Chief Architect of Yerevan, after the statement of the anti-corruption centre of the Transparency International about his possible misuse of powers.

The 145-meter tower of the complex "Grozny City", which was damaged by fire in April, will be restored with the use of new fire-resistant decoration materials by September 30, the city administration reports.

The journalist Nikolai Yarst, accused of drug possession, is not guilty of the incriminated offence, while the inquiry into his case is accompanied by violations, the Yarst's advocates Alexander Popkov and Marina Dubrovina said at the press conference held in Sochi.

The court in Baku dismissed the complaints of the former office manager of the president of Azerbaijan Akif Muradverdiev, filed by his defence in connection with his freedom restriction, the conducted searches and investigators' refusal to provide information. According to the advocate Fuad Agaev, the court decisions gave sufficient grounds for filing a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Zarema Bagautdinova, a representative of the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy) for the Buynaksk District, has addressed the Public Prosecutor of Dagestan asking him to react to the fact of forcing 23 residents of Buynaksk to give their saliva for collecting DNA samples.

On June 29, the city of Magas will hold a conference against encroachment on human honour and rights, which will be organized by the republic's administration and Muftiate. One of the topics to be discussed at the forum will be the issue of bride abduction.

The fire in the unloading dock, located near the farmstead of Bobry in the Sredneakhtubinsk District of the Volgograd Region, which was recognized as cultural heritage, was caused by arson, the activists who fought for the preservation of the building are sure. They now prepare a series of rallies to demand to find and punish the arsonists.

On June 27, Yadigar Sadygov, an advisor to the chairman of the opposition "Musavat" Party, was detained by police in the city of Lankaran in southern Azerbaijan on suspicion of committing acts of hooliganism. The "Musavat" finds the accusations fabricated and politically motivated.

In Dagestan, relatives cannot locate Magomed Magomedov, 28, who was detained by police on June 24. His relatives assert that Magomed Magomedov was detained by Kizilyurt district policemen at the post at the entrance to Kizilyurt from the village of Komsomolskoe.