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During the past day, the Armenian side has violated the ceasefire regime on the contact line nine times. This was reported by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan.

On June 24, the Parliament of Georgia adopted the draft law stipulating exemption from criminal liability for 116 elderly prisoners, including those jailed for serious crimes.

Staff members of the State Security Service have discovered a hiding with weapons, ammunition, and explosive substances in the Abkhaz village bordering with Georgia.

Members of the Presidential Council on Human Rights (HRC) have expressed their concern about a search conducted in the office of the non-commercial organization "Union of Don Women". The human rights defenders treat the above search as an attempt to put into question the implementation of the Minsk agreements. This was stated by Mikhail Fedotov, the chairman of the HRC.

Ibragim Tsechoev, the claimant in the case "Tsechoev vs. Russia", is dissatisfied with the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), despite the fact that the court had sided with him. He believes that the court had disregarded his version, set out in the complaint, of the kidnapping in 2012 of his brother Abu-Bakar Tsechoev, a resident of Ingushetia.

Pope Francis, who has begun his visit to Armenia today, has reaffirmed his attitude to massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915, treating them again as genocide.

Officials of the Dagestani Muftiate and residents of the settlement of Shamkhal have agreed to leave Bii-Murad Ustarkhanov as Imam of the local mosque.

The visit of Pope Francis to Armenia will improve the country's image in the international arena. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by political analyst Alexander Iskandaryan, Director of the Caucasus Institute.

The number of facilities in the Volgograd Region, now accessible for disabled persons, has increased; but the region still sees law violations at adapting such persons, says the report of the Volgograd association of blind specialists name "Nadezhda" (Hope).

Today, the Russian State Duma has approved, in the second and third readings, the package of antiterrorist bills. A number of provisions thereof have touched on non-traditional religious groups, including Salafists.

Investigators refuse to appoint a medical examination for Lecho Gadamauri, a resident of Ingushetia, who is being kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Vladikavkaz. This was stated by his relatives and his advocate.

In Nagorno-Karabakh, 543 people received one-time financial assistance from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Each of them got assistance the amount of 75,000 drams (about 156 US dollars).

On June 23, in Vanadzor, supporters of Zhirair Sefilyan, the leader of the movement "100 years without regime", a member of the Front of National Salvation "New Armenia", held an action in his support. They have called the activist's arrest as unfounded and started collecting signatures in support of the oppositionist, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The investigation into the case on the kidnapping of Abu Bakar Tsechoev in 2012 should be resumed after the verdict of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on recognizing the violation of the rights of his family members. This was stated by Olga Gnezdilova, a lawyer of the human rights organization "Legal Initiative".

The Russian State Duma Committee has removed the regulation of deprivation of citizenship from the package of anti-terrorism laws.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Ukraine has sent requests to Russia for the extradition of Stanislav Klykh and Nikolai Karpyuk, sentenced on the charge of involvement in the first Chechen war on the side of militants.

There is no sense for militants to destroy social objects in Dagestan, since by doing so, they lose support of the population, said the experts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" in their comments on the arson of the school in the village of Teletl.

Authorities should adopt a law "On Homeless Persons" and assign the appropriate status to people who have lost their homes, said the protesters who rallied near the Parliament of Georgia. Should the authorities protract with the bill, activists of the "Union of Unemployed for Employment" and the "Free Generation" promise to go on hunger strike.

Border guards have detained a group of tourists in the mountains near the Russian-Abkhaz border. They were expelled outside the frontier zone because of absence of permits, border guards have explained.

The North-Caucasian District Military Court has sentenced Sharafutdin Vagidov, a resident of Dagestan, who tried to join the terrorist grouping "Islamic State" (IS), to two years in colony.