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Yerevan hosted presentation of an assistance programme to settlers from Syria "Increasing resilience of Syrian Armenians and local residents to challenges". A three-year programme is designed to integrate settlers from Syria into the Armenian society and provide them with the conditions for a decent life, said Mkhitar Airapetyan, the Armenian Diaspora Minister.

Today, the Council of Europe (CE) Committee for the Prevention of Torture has announced that the Azerbaijani government's consent to publish the reports on the practice of ill-treatment of detainees in the country testifies to the authorities' willingness to improve the situation with violations of human rights. Azerbaijani rights defenders have refused to share the optimism of their European counterparts.

During nine months at the post of the acting leader of Dagestan, Vladimir Vasiliev met the Russian President four times. This fact proves the Kremlin's special interest in anti-corruption measures in the republic, believe political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Today, a court hearing in the case against Oyub Titiev has been postponed for a day after the defenders declared the absence of one of the Oyub Titiev's advocates to be a violation of the right to defence.

On July 17-18, the positions of the Azerbaijani army were shelled 98 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) reported.

A 24-year-old woman from Ingushetia is suspected of providing medical assistance to members of a terrorist organization in Syria, cooking food, washing clothes, and cleaning premises for them.

Four residents of Azerbaijan are accused of plotting and organizing a terror act and riots in Ganja.

About 100 people came to the opening of the graphic prints biennale "Kubachinskaya Tower", presented in the old watchtower of the Kubachi village in Dagestan.

Aslan Yandiev, a native of the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia, has been handed over to Russia by the Slovak authorities. In Slovakia, he was kept under extradition arrest since 2011.

A father of Victoria Budaikhanova, a native of Dagestan, who after her return from Syria was accused of involvement in militant groupings, told the court that his daughter left Russia for studies under the influence of her colleagues.

Over the past 24 hours, the waiting line of cars at the Russian-Georgian border checkpoint "Verkhni Lars" has grown; the waiting time is 8-12 hours, tourists have stated.

Policemen, sent to Sochi for the time of the FIFA World Cup-2018, returned home by overcrowded train, and had to sleep on the floor, eyewitnesses assert. The Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has treated the photos that appeared on the Internet to be faked, and promised to establish the employees who spread them.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found ineffective the investigation into the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", and ordered Russia to pay 20,000 euros of compensation to her relatives.

Today, Council of Europe (CE) Commissioner Dunja Mijatovic has called on the General Prosecutor of Russia to take measures to release Oyub Titiev, the head of the "Memorial" in Grozny. She has also spoken in favour of transferring the rights defender's case to be considered outside Chechnya.

Rustam Elkanov, Minister of Finance and Labour, and Muradin Kemov, Minister of Social Development, left their posts three weeks after searches had been carried out in the government building.

Participants of a protest action in Tkibuli have called on the authorities not to suspend the operation of the mine after the deaths of four miners, but to observe security measures there.

The NATO's advance to Russia's borders and, in particular, Georgia joining the alliance, will pose a threat to the country and will provoke a response, stated Russian President Vladimir Putin. He has noted that the number of NATO soldiers has been increased in the areas where "there should not be any of them."

A criminal case of an attack on Rustam Laipanov, wounded by unidentified people in Karachay-Cherkessia, was instituted against the background of a rally held by the victim's relatives who threatened the authorities of the republic to arrange mass protests.

A slope at the "Volgograd Arena" Stadium was subjected to erosion due to shortages of storm sewage system, reported Sergey Kamin, the director of the project "Construction of Stadium in Volgograd". Engineers should have calculated the reserve capacities of a storm sewage system, believes Igor Shkopinsky, the chairman of the board for the "Rosgrazhdanproekt" design and survey institute.

The condition of two out of six victims of an explosion at the Mindeli mine in Tkibuli is assessed by doctors as severe, while the condition of the rest is not a cause for concern.