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The Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia has demanded that the Nagorno-Karabakh government's ownership of a building in central Yerevan be declared invalid. Such actions by the Armenian authorities are unacceptable, representatives of the Council for the Protection of the Rights of the People of Nagorno-Karabakh and the Armenian opposition said.

The court found two comments by Volzhsky resident Alexander Mirodar Zhernovnikov to be extremist and sentenced him to a year and a month of probationary labor. The appeal was dismissed.

The Sergokalinsky District Court will consider the case of the former head of the district, Magomed Omarov, which was opened after an attack by a group of militants created by Omarov's son on Makhachkala and Derbent.

The European Commission demanded that the Georgian authorities respect human rights and abolish repressive laws, naming these demands among the conditions for maintaining a visa-free regime. The Georgian authorities stated that they would prefer maintaining stability to a visa-free regime.

7.4 kilometers of protective embankments have been removed in Anapa on beaches in areas where authorities have not recorded any fuel oil emissions.

Residents of two dilapidated dormitories in Yerevan, who are unable to be resettled, demanded a meeting with the Prime Minister of Armenia today at a protest rally in front of the government.

A native of Chechnya, Said-Muhammad Djumaev, served his full sentence in a case involving an attack on a security officer and was released from a penal colony in the Tambov region.

A military court found Krasnodar resident Viktor Morozov guilty of justifying terrorism for his comment under a post about the verdict of a St. Petersburg resident in the case of an attempted arson of military registration and enlistment offices. Morozov was sentenced to a fine of 400 thousand rubles.

The mother of a schoolboy from Dagestan, who was forced to sign a contract to be sent to a war zone, received unofficial information about her son’s death.

An indictment was announced at the trial of political scientist Azer Gasimli. The political scientist stated that he himself was in fact the victim.

The deprivation of citizenship occurred after the Azerbaijani athlete made ethnically-based insults to his Russian opponent.

Relatives of Russian citizens arrested in Baku were able to see them in prison, and the Russian consul called their conditions of detention good.

The number of Ukrainian citizens awaiting entry into Georgia after being expelled from Russia has grown to 90. Human rights activists have called for assistance.

A court in Yekaterinburg has extended the arrest of eight people from Azerbaijan in connection with murders committed in 2001-2011.

The murder of the Alabai in the village of Nizhnyaya Shilovka was committed with particular sadism; such animal abusers can also pose a danger to people, local residents are sure. The police reported the initiation of a criminal case.

The sister of Abubakar Rizvanov, convicted of financing terrorism, is closing the production and sale of cosmetics under the Halal Cosmetics brand in Dagestan. The company's employees will also leave the republic, Zumrud Rizvanova said.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan will hear in absentia criminal cases against former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev* and Islamic preacher Abu Umar Sasitlinsky, who are accused of organizing riots at the Makhachkala airport.

Petro Bilokryly was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,254 fighters from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed in it.

Only owners of shops selling hijabs responded to the call to register, but those to whom the appeal was addressed ignored it, said an aide to the head of Chechnya, setting a deadline for sending data on representatives of the modeling industry, women's clothing stores and beauty salons.

On the 231st day of protests, pro-European activists blocked traffic at the Georgian parliament. This afternoon, activists gathered at the city hall, demanding the resignation of the mayor of Tbilisi in connection with the deaths of people when part of a dilapidated building collapsed.