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The State Duma has adopted the law providing for voluntary study of native languages without taking into account the opinion of representatives of national republics, stated activists of the North-Caucasian NGOs. They have promised to seek the repeal of the law.

On July 26, members of the Grozny City Duma approved to the post of City Mayor Ibragim Zakriev, a nephew of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

Law enforcers have explained the protraction in the investigation of the kidnapping of the Azerbaijani journalist Afghan Mukhtarly in Tbilisi by the absence of his testimony. Now, they have all the data for an objective and timely completion of the investigation, the defence has stated.

In Georgia, the fight against illegal felling led to clashes of residents of two villages with law enforcers. Locals treat felling as their only source of livelihood.

Russian State Duma MPs adopted the law on the native (national) languages on July 25. The new order of studying them will encourage some of the parents to refuse from their children's studying the mother tongue in favour of the Russian language; while Russian authorities will continue pursuing their policy of assimilating minor nations, residents of Dagestan have stated.

Investigators have requested the arrest of the second Armenian President, Robert Kocharyan, accused of overthrowing the constitutional order in connection with the dispersal of protests in Yerevan on March 1-2, 2008.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has denied the defence's request to transfer Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", under house arrest and left him in custody until December 22.

In an apartment of the residential building cordoned off in Derbent, there are two alleged militants, a law enforcement source has reported.

In January-June this year, Chechen law enforcers prevented the departure of 10 people to Syria, while in the first six months of 2017, 50 residents of Chechnya were detained for trying to join terrorists.

The "Roskomnadzor" (the Russian Federal Service for Supervising Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Media has demanded to block the page of the website "Pravda Beslana" (Truth of Beslan), which posted a copy of the letter sent by terrorists in 2004 from the captured school.

The Armenian armed forces have violated the ceasefire in the Karabakh conflict zone and used large-calibre machine guns, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) reported.

Economic cooperation will allow Syria and South Ossetia to enter the markets of other countries, reported Syrian Prime Minister Anatoly Bibilov. The political aspect is more important than economic agreements between countries, noted Russian political analysts.

Ingushetia has got a large archive containing documents about the life and activities of special settlers during the years of deportation. As a result of the specialists' work in the archival institutions of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, 2000 sheets and personnel documents concerning the lives of special settlers were found.

Aslan Yandiev, who had been extradited from Slovakia on the charge of involvement in terror acts, was taken from Moscow to Vladikavkaz and placed to the FSB SIZO (pre-trial prison).

The political will to combat Dagestani corruption originates from the Kremlin, but it is not known to what extent this process will continue if Vladimir Vasiliev is elected the head of the republic, political analysts and journalists believe.

The situation in Northern Caucasus is a matter of serious concern: extrajudicial executions, torture, kidnappings are fixed there but remain non-investigated, Claude Heller, a member of the UN Committee against Torture (CaT), has stated. Russian human rights defenders have called on the UN to pay special attention to human rights violations in Chechnya.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has satisfied the complaint of the defence of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" asking to check the records of bout the examination of the DVRs (digital video recorders) installed along the Oyub's path on the day of his detention.

Kurban Kurbanov, the Deputy Makhachkala Mayor and the head of the department of architecture and town-planning, has been detained.

Tamaz Batirashvili, an elder brother of Tarkhan Batirashvili, one of the leaders of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court, died in the warfare in Syria. This was reported by residents of the Pankisi Gorge.

The suspect was killed at detention, Azerbaijani law enforcement sources report.