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One of the leaders of the Akhali party, Nika Gvaramia, was sentenced to eight months in prison for failing to comply with the demands of the parliamentary temporary investigative commission.

The amendments, which allow a lawyer to be stripped of his or her status after leaving the country, violate the constitutional rights of citizens to choose a profession and place of residence, and the repressive norm is aimed specifically at the human rights community.

Azerbaijani security forces reported the detention of two groups of Russians suspected of drug trafficking and cybercrime. Videos released by the authorities show signs of beatings on the faces of the detainees.

Security forces detained seven people in the office of Sputnik Azerbaijan in cases of fraud, illegal entrepreneurship and property laundering, two of them were arrested.

There is no official mosque in Krasnodar, prayer houses are under pressure, and believers are forced to pray in cafes and at gas stations, Muslims of the Krasnodar Region said. In their opinion, this is a manifestation of discrimination against Muslims.

The cause of death of Guseyn and Ziyaddin Safarov, detained during a special operation by security forces in Yekaterinburg, was blows with a blunt object, an expert examination in Baku concluded. The Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan opened a criminal case on charges of murder and torture.

The Baku Court of Grave Crimes rejected the defense's motions to place the head of the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Center, Anar Mammadli, under house arrest and to exclude evidence obtained from his phone and computer from the case.

Following detention and searches, Dagestan State Secretary Magomed-Sultan Magomedov was dismissed from his post.

Five people are accused of attempting to escape, participating in a terrorist organization, preparing a terrorist attack, and taking hostages in Rostov's SIZO-1; the case has been sent to court.

Last night, air defense forces intercepted 60 unmanned aerial vehicles over regions of the country, including 16 in the Rostov region and 14 over the Azov and Black Seas.

Drivers and passengers of 757 vehicles are waiting in Krasnodar Krai for the opportunity to travel through the Kerch Strait, authorities reported.

Drones were shot down at night in Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog, Novoshakhtinsk, Millerovsky, Myasnikovsky, Aksaysky, Neklinovsky and Matveyevo-Kurgansky districts.

A court sentenced two residents of Dagestan to 2.5 years in a penal colony after finding them guilty of desecrating the Eternal Flame at a memorial in the village of Kurskaya. The convicts were warming their feet by the fire.

Dagestani farmers, commenting on the statement of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic about the low cherry yield due to frosts, noted that the harvest this year was good, there were no severe frosts.

Vladimir Putin's reception of Adam Kadyrov on the eve of the wedding, like the receptions of other sons of the head of Chechnya under similar circumstances, is a gesture confirming the support of the family. Ramzan Kadyrov is thus trying to pass on power by inheritance.

In the village of Vesely in Myasnikovsky District, fragments from a downed drone damaged a house. Earlier in the day, two drones were shot down over Kamensky District.

A Baku court has begun hearing the case of human rights activist Rufat Safarov. At a preparatory hearing, he was denied transfer to house arrest. The hearing on the merits is scheduled for July 14.

Azerbaijani security forces detained two people in the office of Sputnik Azerbaijan, calling them undercover agents of the Russian special services.

One defendant in the contract killings case in Yekaterinburg died of heart failure, the cause of death of the second is being established, the investigation said. Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova asked the Prosecutor General's Office to check the legality of the detentions of members of the Azerbaijani diaspora.

The Supreme Court of Russia has arrested in absentia the former deputy chairman of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, Murat Efendiev, in a case of fraud and money laundering.