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On July 3, at a session of the Basmanny Court of Moscow, the defence of the arrested and removed from office Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov will insist on changing his freedom restraint measure to home arrest, said Mark Kruter, Amirov's advocate.

On June 27, the court has extended till August 1 the custody of Talekh Bagirzade, a theologian, said his lawyer Javad Javadly. The defender finds the decision unjustified and intends to appeal against it at the appellate.

Tamerlan Akaev, a villager of Mutsalaul, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, a 28-year-old supporter of Salafism, who had been elected a delegate to the future Kumyk Parliament, was shot dead in his car. According to Rasul Ismailov, the head of the human rights organization "Civil Initiative", believes that the reason for the murder could be the hostility that arose on religious grounds.

Evgeniy Kuzyur, the advocate of Ruslan Rakhaev, a former deputy head of the police of the city of Cherkessk, who is accused of abuse of power that led to the death of a person, has stated – in the course of the debate at the court – that the case was falsified, and asked the court to acquit his client.

On June 27, after the session of the People's Assembly of Dagestan, Magomed Magomedov, an MP, was detained, the MIA of Dagestan reports. According to a source from the National Assembly, the reason for the detention was the fact that the MP is suspected of links with militants.

The Dagestani law enforcement bodies have not yet taken a procedural decision on the application of the lawyers Sapiyat Magomedova and Musa Suslanov, who had reported about received threats with demands to refuse to represent the interests of the relatives of Gamzatov brothers, killed in Kizlyar, said Magomedova.

The members of the armed group, blocked in August 2012 in Lopota Gorge, had legally entered the country. Some of the survivals in the special operation legally left Georgia and stay now in different countries, including Syria, said the Ombudsman of Georgia Ucha Nanuashvili.

For the first time since June 17, the lawyer Vyacheslav Merzakulov was admitted to the detention facility to meet Atam Achmiz, a resident of Adygea, suspected of executing the murder of the deputy prime minister of the Karachay-CherkessianRepublic (KChR) Ansar Tebuev.

On June 26, the Primorsky District Court of Odessa has finished questioning the prosecution witnesses in the case of Adam Osmaev, a native of Grozny, suspected of preparing a terror act against the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.

An action under the motto "Promise is promise" in protest against violence applied to women was held on June 25 inYerevan, said Satenik Gevorkyan, the event coordinator. The action was organized by the Women's Rights Centre and the network "Men against Abusing Women".

In the village of Dar-Gora, Voroshilov District of Volgograd, activists of the territorial self-government (known as TOS) "Divnogorsky" opened – jointly with state officials and ecologists – a shop, which manufactured rubberoid and emitted acrid smoke that disturbed local residents.

In an apartment in Nalchik, policemen found components for making improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The man who rented the apartment, was detained, said the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Kabardino-Balkaria.

The National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) is ready to consider the initiative of the authorities of Dagestan on amnesty for the militants who want to return to civilian life, said Nikolai Sintsov, the spokesman of the NAC, who added that the amnesty should not touch on those who had committed grave crimes.

According to the press release of the Radio Liberty-Free Europe, interventions are made into the satellite broadcasting of the radio programmes in Azerbaijan, which is contrary to international telecom regulations and can be considered as a new stage in the history of hampering the broadcasting.

Examination on the application about the torture, applied to the builder Demerchyan in Sochi, is scheduled for June 26, Ivan Sengerov, the spokesman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for the Krasnodar Territory, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Residents of the aul of Kichmay in the city of Sochi have held a spontaneous gathering, where they stated a danger of destruction of the ShakheRiver, because building materials are extracted from its bed.

The tenants of No. 5 inAkatsiy Street have received a ruling of the Adler service of court marshals prescribing the tenants to voluntarily demolish – at their own expense and within five days – the public toilet and the shed for storing firewood. The tenants disagree and plan to challenge the ruling in court.

The "United Caucasian Forum" (UCF), which was held June 24-25 in Grozny, ended its work with a resolution expressing concern about the pressure on human rights organizations in the Russian Federation.

As stated by Irakli Khintba, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia, at the next round of international discussions in Geneva on security and stability in Southern Caucasus, they plan to raise the issue of a more suitable form of the discussions.

The Imam Magomed Abdullaev, whose family was attacked on June 23, had earlier received SMS-messages with threats, said Magomedrasul Magomedomarov, the spokesman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of Dagestan.