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An action held by parents of the perished soldiers near the building of the Supreme Judicial Council of Armenia was caused by a court’s decision to consider behind closed doors a complaint about the refusal to institute a criminal case on high treason and involve Nikol Pashinyan as a defendant.

Soldier Eduard Martirosov, who was detained by Azerbaijani border guards in April, has been returned from captivity, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reports.

Ali Zakaev, a resident of Urus-Martan, was forced to record a video message criticizing his brother living in Great Britain, social media users suggested.

Law enforcers from the National Guard of Russia arrived in the Botlikh District in Dagestan after a mass fight occurred near the Central District Hospital, a video posted on social media reports.

In Yerevan, participants of a protest action gathered in front of the building of the Supreme Judicial Council and demanded to institute a criminal case against Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The protestors also expressed their solidarity with relatives of those killed during the aggravation of the Karabakh conflict in 2020.

The words pronounced by Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the President of Russia, that Moscow is not taking steps to annex South Ossetia are a signal for Georgia, which treats South Ossetia as its territory. At the same time, by Peskov's words that the referendum issue itself needs to be updated, the Kremlin made it clear to the authorities of South Ossetia that the initiative to hold a referendum should be cancelled, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The wording "Karabakh ethnic Armenian population", used by Charles Michel, President of the European Council, in Brussels, excludes the right of Nagorno-Karabakh residents to self-determination, which they have been seeking for thirty years, the president and the MPs of the unrecognized republic have stated.

The message about pension indexing and increase of the floor wage has caused no joy among users of the Chechen segment of the Instagram* social network. The pension is barely enough for food; and its slight increase will lead to an increase in prices for foodstuffs and services, social network users in Chechnya assert.

The servicemen of the "Rosgvardiya" (Russian Natural Guard), who were fired after leaving the special operation zone in Ukraine, have stated that they will appeal against the court ruling that denied their reinstatement at service.

At an evening protest in Yerevan, opposition politicians have stated that Pashinyan's manipulations and populism have led the country to disaster.

All 4550 places allocated to Dagestan within Russia's 2022 Hajj quota have already been filled with applications, despite an increased pilgrimage cost, a source from the Hajj operator "Marva Tour" has informed.

A total of 39 Armenian citizens are still kept in Azerbaijani captivity, the Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, has informed, offering to involve the international community in the returning of them.

Today, in Baku, a court has started a trial against Pyunkhan Kerimli, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, who was arrested on a drug case after being deported from Germany.

An apology for driving in a state of alcoholic intoxication and trying to run away from a policeman is not enough to treat the incident as closed, some social media users point out after a video of a conversation with the offender was posted on the Internet. The policeman used excessive force during the detention of the drunk driver, other users noted.

Activists of the “Resistance” movement unblocked the streets of Yerevan and returned to Square of France. The opposition insists on holding an extraordinary session of the parliament, MP Ishkhan Sagatelyan says.

Two children kept in a penitentiary institution in Iraq have been repatriated to Azerbaijan. The total number of Azerbaijani citizens repatriated from Iraq has reached 290.

Agil Magerramov, a member of the presidium of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, has been released from prison after spending four years in custody. The activist has promised to continue his political struggle for democratic changes in Azerbaijan.

The pacifist slogan voiced out by a graduate of an Izberbash school at the "Last Bell" ceremony does not fall under the article on discrediting Russian militaries, the lawyers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Yerevan policemen tried to squeeze protesters away from the gates of the blocked residence of the Armenian President, after which clashes broke out.

Chechen authorities have failed to focus on the beating up of the former head of the police division in Turkey; only Chengiz Akhmadov, the head of the "Grozny" ChGTRK (Chechen State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company) reacted to the video and stated that there had been "enmity" between the attackers and republic's authorities. Recently, the latter have diverted their attention from the persecution of opponents' relatives, focusing on the events in Ukraine, Ruslan Kutaev has noted.