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A court in Chechnya has sentenced Alaudin Menlibaev, a resident of the Stavropol Territory, finding him guilty of the attack in 1999 on the village of Chervlyonnaya, committed under command of Khattab.

The Special Investigation Service of Armenia has declared the unlawful use of force against protesters on June 23, and the institution of a criminal case in this context.

On July 2, the Adler District Court of Sochi began considering the case of disobeying the police in relation to the ecologist Vladimir Kimaev and Anna Gritsevich, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. The court granted the defence's motion to watch the video from the place of detention of the journalist and the ecologist.

Today, at 3:00 a.m. Moscow time, in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, law enforcement bodies started their counterterrorist operation (CTO). The legal CTO regime was introduced at 3:00 Moscow time, the operative headquarters of Dagestan has reported.

According to coordinators of the protest action against the increase of electricity tariff, last night about 100 protesters stayed in Yerevan, in Bagramyan Avenue.

The Krasnodar Territorial Court has dismissed the appeal complaints against the decision of the District court of Sochi, which had granted the petition lodged by pensioner Nina Dubovaya about return of her land plot.

Arutyun Arutyunyan and Ayk Parikyan stopped their hunger strike against the increase of the electricity tariff in Armenia; both activists were taken to hospital.

The beaten and kidnapped blogger Vyacheslav Starodubets has stopped his series of solo pickets in Makhachkala. According to his story, officials from the administration of the head of Dagestan promised to help in the investigation of his criminal case.

The squeezing of North-Caucasian problems out of focus of public by the anti-Western and anti-Ukrainian rhetoric has led to increased positive attitude towards the situation in Northern Caucasus. This was the comment of "Levada Centre" experts on the outcome of their social poll, conducted on June 19-22.

Azerbaijani experts and local residents have different opinions on the value for the country of the recent First European Games held in Baku. Some believe that the Games boosted the country's international reputation and promotion of its tourism potential; while others point out huge expenses and increased criticism for human rights violations.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has accepted to consideration the complaints of most of the applicants, who suffered from the terror act with hostage taking in Beslan in 2004. According to the lawyer Sergey Knyazkin, who is representing the applicants' interests of the, the consideration should help to identify the mistakes that led to massive children's deaths.

In December 2014, the office of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) of rights defenders in Chechnya, was set on fire in three places – this is evidenced by fire-technical expertises, carried out under the criminal investigation.

Special equipment, including water cannons, has been removed from Bagramyan Avenue in central Yerevan, where activists protest against the increase of the electricity tariff. However, the police said that the equipment may be brought back to the place of protest.

So far, law enforcement bodies have not presented charges to Elkhan Kazimov, an adviser to the Mayor of Derbent, detained on June 30, said a source from the GOVD (City Interior Division). The detention of Kazimov may have to do with the struggle of different groups for key positions in the leadership of the city, said Milrad Fatullaev, the editor-in-chief of the RIA "Derbent".

The protests of residents of the village of Chereshnya against the garbage dump arranged in the village centre gave no results. The villagers who tried to block the passage of KamAZ trucks were pushed off by the police. The authorities say that the garbage dump is temporary.

Ali Aliev, a resident of Nasyr-Kort, and his wife Leyla Alieva, who were killed during a special operation in Nazran, were not involved in illegal armed formations (IAFs), said Aliev's brother Magomed Aliev. He called rights defenders to help to bring the participants of the special operation to justice.

Musabi Berkhamov, a resident of the city of Baksan, has sent his complaints about violations of the rights of his son, Anzor Berkhamov, in a colony located in the Kurgan Region, to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) and the republic's Ombudsperson.

Valentina Melnikova, the secretary of the Union of Committees of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia, has stated that there were violations in the work of human rights activist Lyudmila Bogatenkova, who has been sentenced today. On the other hand, Sergey Krivenko, a member of the Russian Presidential Council on Human Rights, asserts that not a single fact confirming Bogatenkova's guilt was proved at the trial.

Apart from the sit-in strike in Bagramyan Avenue in Yerevan, Armenia has stopped other protest actions against the increase of electricity tariff.

The beaten and kidnapped blogger Vyacheslav Starodubets has held a solo picket in Makhachkala trying to attract authorities' attention to the investigation of his case.