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In Yerevan, opponents of constitutional reforms held public hearings and expressed the need to consolidate efforts not to admit the adoption of amendments to the Constitution of Armenia.

A resident of Nalchik died in the area adjacent to the area of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) before doctors could reach him. The ambulance stood in the traffic jam because of blocking the city centre; however, according to doctors, in any case, they would not have been able to save the man.

Murat Misrokov, a doctor of a Nalchik hospital, was the owner of the apartment, destroyed during the counterterrorist operation (CTO) on July 23 in an apartment building. Tenants of the house told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent the details of the CTO.

By organizers' estimates, the opening ceremony of the North-Caucasian Youth Forum "Mashuk-2015" was attended by about 2700 persons. This year, the programme of the forum is aimed at the patriotic upbringing; and the main declared topics are the jubilee of the victory in the Great Patriotic War and the 2000th anniversary of Derbent.

The North-Caucasian District Military Court has sentenced three residents of the Tabasaran District of Dagestan – Rustam Alimirzaev, Sirazhul Ramazanov and Tazhutdin Gadjiev – to 15, 11 and 10 years in prison, accordingly, on charges of involvement in the bomb explosion in the village of Khuchni in 2013.

The militants killed in Nalchik had been preparing attempts on state officials of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has reported.

At the today's conference, activists of the Committee against Torture (CaT) spoke for the liquidation of their organization. In the near future, a respective application will be sent to the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ), Igor Kalyapin, the Chairman of the CaT, has stated.

The issue of the transfer of the museum complex "Peter the Great's House" to the balance sheet of the city of Derbent is being considered; however, so far, no decision has been made, said Khuchbar Khuchbarov, the spokesman of the "Summa" Group of Companies in Dagestan, adding that most likely joint projects with the Mayoralty will be implemented in the complex.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) found Ilya Goryachev guilty of creating the "Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists" (known as BORN) and organizing five murders. The court sentenced him to life imprisonment.

A law enforcement source reports that special services have established links of the militants killed in Nalchik with the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS).

According to the "LifeNews", the six persons killed in the counterterrorist operation (CTO) in Nalchik have been identified as Sultan Abshaev, Marat Dotkulov, Amir Kazberigev, brothers Murat and Aslan Bogotov, and the owner of the blocked apartment.

The court has sentenced Rustam Kurbanov, resident of Makhachkala, finding him guilty of placing calls to terrorism on the Internet, to 2.5 years in colony-settlement.

A service inquiry into the circumstances of dispersal of protesters in Yerevan, which occurred on June 23, has been suspended. The respective materials have been sent to the Special Investigating Service, the Police of Armenia has reported.

Investigating authorities fail to investigate the kidnapping of Derbent of the 20-year-old Magomed Karakhanov, committed on May 6, his mother has complained. The Investigating Division for the city of Derbent of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) said that they knew nothing about the kidnapping of Karakhanov.

The press attaché of the Russian Embassy in Turkey has confirmed the detention by the Turkish party of two natives of Northern Caucasus, when they tried to cross the border with Syria.

From August 1 on, the electricity tariff in Georgia will go up by 32.2%. The tariff increase will cover most regions of the country, except for residents of Tbilisi and consumers of the "Kakheti Energy Company".

Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council, has visited Baku and met activists of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) there. His visit gave rise to hope for the release of political prisoners in Azerbaijan, said the experts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has not reimbursed the Volgograd youth advice and training centre with the fine earlier collected for its work without getting registered as a foreign agent, but excluded the centre from the registry, said Temur Kobaliya, the founder of the centre.

The appeal to the authorities to close the Salafi mosque in the "Airport" District in Derbent was spread by the women, whose children, as they assert, went to war in Syria. The authors of the appeal believe that the mosque is recruiting fighters to the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS), but the Imam of the mosque has completely refuted these allegations.

Gadjimurad Bekishev, a law enforcer, who was questioned at the trial of Said Amirov, said that militants may be involved in the murder of the investigator Arsen Gadjibekov, of which figurants in Amirov's case are accused.