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Several marches were held in Tbilisi on the 200th day of pro-European protests. Torchlight marchers, whose faces were hidden by masks, have burned down a Russian flag in front of the Georgian Parliament.

At a rally against the urban development, residents of Volgograd have claimed that the construction of a high-rise residential complex on the Volga River bank threatens the safety of nearby houses and violates environmental standards. The activists addressed Russian President Vladimir Putin and Alexander Bastrykin, the chairman of the Russian Investigating Committee, with the demand to bring to responsibility the officials who approved the urban development in the region.

During negotiations with the Council for the Protection of the Nagorno-Karabakh People’s Rights, the Armenian government has promised to take on the repayment of the mortgages for the families of soldiers and officers killed in the 2020 war who purchased apartments using certificates from the Nagorno-Karabakh government.

Fourteen Russian scientists who stayed in Iran with a purpose of attending a conference crossed the border into Azerbaijan.

In connection with the data on the radiation leak in Iran, the round-the-clock monitoring of the radiation situation is conducted in the southern part of Dagestan.

To record the torture to which Mansur Movlaev was subjected in Chechnya, an examination of internal organs and psychological examinations may be conducted.

Activists of the “Sorok Sorokov” (Forty Forties) Movement came to Apti Alaudinov, Commander of the “Akhmat” Special Forces, to demand from him apologies to Schema-Abbot Gavriil, but during the meeting they concluded that Alaudinov is a "friend of Orthodox believers."

Hovik Abrahamyan, the former Speaker of the Parliament and former Prime Minister of Armenia, has been detained on the charge of money laundering.

Investigators are engaged in checking the circumstances of the death in an orphanage in Morozovsk of a 15-year-old girl who was subjected to domestic violence. Teachers and officials were aware of the teenager’s troubles, but failed to take any appropriate actions, investigation suggested.

Defendants in a criminal case on the shooting in front of the “Wildberries” Company’s office “due to non-involvement” would not be released without the participation of the Chechen authorities, human rights defenders believe. If the three defendants who remain under arrest are also released or sign military contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD), the criminal case will be suspended.

At least 500,000, and preferably a million people, should be mobilized and trained to fight. This proposal has been voiced today by Apti Alaudinov, the commander of the “Akhmat” special forces, when he was commenting on the Israel’s strikes on Iran.

Volunteers, with the help of the police, freed eleven people who were kept at an enterprise in the Slavyansky District of the Krasnodar Territory. The Prosecutor’s Office of the Krasnodar Territory has launched an inspection.

The beaches of the city of Kaspiysk are full of vacationers, despite the ban by “Rospotrebnadzor” (Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing) on bathing in these places, local residents have informed. Authorities must resolve the issue of wastewater discharge into the sea if they want to develop tourism in Dagestan, a local journalist has stated.

Policemen have forced protesters who spent the night near the university in Tbilisi to leave the roadway.

The third stage of prisoners-of-war (POWs) exchange with Ukraine was held in accordance with the agreements reached on June 2 in Istanbul, Shamsail Saraliev, a Russian State Duma MP from Chechnya, has reported today.

The Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) have intervened in the situation that arose after the harsh statements by Schema-Abbot Gavriil and Apti Alaudinov, the commander of the “Akhmat” Special Forces, while the Kremlin has preferred to remain aside, analysts believe.

The current situation with the conscription in Dagestan is not entirely clear, and people lack information. There were no so many complaints about the law enforcers’ actions even against the backdrop of mobilization. But in each case, it is necessary to figure out whether there are actually violations of rights, abuse of power, and then, if necessary, these actions are to be challenged, note interviewed journalists from Dagestan.

The new Georgian law on “foreign agents” has forced the United Kingdom to withdraw grant proposals to support the transparency of municipal elections scheduled for October.

The Ministry of Nationalities and Public Projects of Kabardino-Balkaria has sent recommendations to Moscow on revising the federal draft law on repatriation based on an appeal from Circassian activists who criticized the discriminatory nature of the draft law due to the mandatory requirement for knowledge of Russian.

The Georgian authorities have expelled Temur Katamadze (Gafar Yilmaz), who has become a symbol of the anti-government protests in Batumi, to Turkey.