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More than five hundred students have gone on strike today in protest against the initiative of the Ministry of Education (MoE) to make the study of the history of Armenia, the Armenian language and literature optional at non-humanitarian departments.

A special plane took to Turkey Ogtai Gyulyalyev, who stayed in critical condition after a road traffic accident in Baku. Ogtai Gyulyalyev will not come out of a coma during several weeks, his doctor suggests.

For activities in Chechnya, a traditional healer should have a medical education diploma and get permission from a special commission, the Ministry for Public Health of Chechnya announces. The initiative of the authorities will result in hidden charges for healers, suggest local herb healers.

Turkish doctors invited by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation have offered to transfer human rights defender Ogtai Gyulyalyev to an Istanbul clinic for medical treatment. However, they do not guarantee such a transfer will help the patient come out of a coma and recover.

In Azerbaijan, leaders of several opposition parties and activists of civil society held a meeting at which they agreed to jointly oppose the authoritarian regime in the country.

Contradictory statements voiced by a woman from Chechnya about an alleged murder of her daughter will certainly affect the reputation of the family, Ruslan Kutaev and Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya believe.

Out of the countries of the former USSR located in the Caucasus, the freedom of Internet exists only in Armenia and Georgia; while human rights defenders treat the Internet in Azerbaijan and Russia as not free.

Neither the Prosecutor's Office, nor the State Duma's commission for monitoring the reliability of income data, have reacted, within the past week, to the information about the real estate and business of the MP, Alexander Remezkov, released by Navalny's Krasnodar office.

The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) has dismissed the complaint, lodged by Shamistan Khaziev, a journalist and activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), about his arrest. At the trial, Khaziev complained about poor custody conditions at the detention centre.

Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the head of the Ingush "E" Centre (CCE – Centre for Combating Extremism), was shot dead from a "Kedr" (Cedar) pistol- submachine gun, used by special services, the "Mash" Telegram channel has reported.

The Yessentuki City Court has refused to satisfy the complaint lodged by Malsag Uzhakhov, the head of the Council of Ingush Teips, about the investigator's inaction, his advocate Djabrail Kuriev has stated today.

Today, seventeen Georgian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have called on the Prosecutor's Office (PO) to grant the victim status to those wounded during the dispersal of the protest action at night on June 21. In a joint statement circulated today, the above NGOs suggested that the state would not admit the facts of inflicting grievous harm to health of citizens and journalists.

In Adjara, a young man and two of his acquaintances are suspected of abducting a minor girl, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia reports today.

A person close to leaders of the Batal-Khadi's wird (concept) organized the assassination of Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the chief of the Ingush Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE), for 60 million roubles, said Shamil Bulguchev, a native of Ingushetia, in his appeal to the leader of the republic.

Eric Arutyunyan, a conscript of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has died on the way to hospital, investigators have reported today.

After the experimental performance staged in Yerevan with the financial support of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports, the youth wing of the ARF "Dashnaktsutyun" Party has demanded to dismiss the Minister, Araik Arutyunyan.

Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, has called on his ill-wishers and critics to weigh up their words before writing anything. A video with his statement and a comment thereon were posted on his Instagram page by Djambulat Umarov, the Chechen Press Minister.

In his interview, Islam Kadyrov, a former Mayor of Grozny, has apologized to Ramzan Kadyrov and his comrades, but not to the people who suffered from his actions, the residents of Chechnya interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have stated. Internet users have expressed indignation that Ramzan Kadyrov's official has not been punished.

Nika Gvaramiya, a former director general of the "Rustavi-2" TV Company, is accused of having bought a Porsche car for 76,700 euros by reducing the cost of advertising on the TV channel. Gvaramiya himself, as well as experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", have linked the new charge with the pressure on free media in Georgia.

A resident of Azerbaijan was killed while trying to illegally return to the country from Iran with drugs and weapons; two more people were detained, the Azerbaijani State Border Service (SBS) has informed.