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As part of the agreements signed by Russia and Armenia, the first session on the case of the mass murder in Gyumri is to be held before August 10 in the territory of the 102nd Russian military base, the newspaper "Zhamanak" writes today with reference to its sources.

Azerbaijan has arrested, on charges of illegal drug dealing, Rufat Zakhidov, a nephew of Ganimat Zakhid (Zakhidov), the editor-in-chief of the oppositional newspaper "Azadlyg" (Freedom), who is now in political emigration. This is the third relative of Ganimat Zakhidov arrested within the past three days.

The advocates of the rights defender Intigam Aliev have disagreed with the decision of the Court of Appeal (CoA), which has upheld the verdict to the activist. They believe that Aliev's guilt was not proved; and he was convicted on the basis of the prosecution, built on investigators' assumptions.

One of the two suspected militants killed at night on July 17 in the Derbent District of Dagestan has been identified, said his relative. The Derbent ROVD (District Interior Division) has not confirmed the identification information.

An Austrian court has sentenced Magomed Zakriev, a native of Chechnya, to five years in prison. He was found guilty of participating in the activities of the so-called "Islamic State" (IS), which has been recognized as a terrorist organization.

As reported by locals, Sayat Gadjimagomedova, a resident of the Dagestani village of Gotsatl and the wife of a suspected militant Magomed Gadjimagomedov, was released home by power agents on July 20.

A complaint against the decision to send the case of Nadezhda Savchenko to the Donetsk City Court in the Rostov Region was lodged by her defence to the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Russia.

According to unconfirmed data, Nartan Kylych, a graduate of the State University of Kabardino-Balkaria, was killed by the suicide bombing, committed in the Turkish city of Suruch, located on the border with Syria. His mother was killed with him, users of social networks report.

At the court session in Rostov-on-Don, the Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, accused of creating a terrorist community and plotting terror acts in the Crimea, has declared his innocence and political motivation of the case against him.

Today, the Baku Court of Appeal (CoA) has upheld the verdict to rights defender Intigam Aliev in the case of his tax evasion, illegal entrepreneurship, and a large-scale misappropriation or embezzlement. The defence intends to appeal against the verdict.

The European Council treats the actions of the South-Ossetian party of installing border signs on the border with Georgia as an attempt to destabilize the situation in the region, Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council (EC), said at a press conference in Tbilisi. The EC does not recognize the independence of South Ossetia, he said.

During his psychiatric examination, Zaur Dadaev, the main figurant in the Boris Nemtsov's murder case, told doctors that he had been contused during the militants' attack on Grozny. This was two months before the assassination of Nemtsov.

The constitutional reforms offered by the Commission for Constitutional Reforms in Armenia will create a one-party ruling system, which, in its turn, will contribute to reproduction of power. The absence of partisan competition will hinder democratic development, local experts said at a press conference in Yerevan on July 20.

About 30 Sochi residents came to the opening of the monument to corruption, which was built by the spouses Lyubov Berchanova and Vasily Zhuravlyov in the place of their house, demolished in 2013 in fulfilment of the court judgement.

According to investigators, the person shot dead in the shootout with policemen in the Tabasaran District of Dagestan, turned out to be Magomed Ismailov, a member of the armed underground.

Rovshan Zakhidov and Tural Zakhidov, relatives of Ganimat Zakhid (Zakhidov), the editor-in-chief of the oppositional newspaper "Azadlyg", have been sentenced to administrative arrests for 25 and 30 days, accordingly, in Azerbaijan.

The administrative case against Yulia Usach, an activist of the "Left-Wing Front", has been sent to the Sovietskiy District Court of Krasnodar; she is accused of reposting caricatures depicting nazi swastika.

Relatives and advocates of Ibadullo Nabotov, an employee of the mosque located in Hungarian Warriors Street of Makhachkala, convicted of illegal possession of weapons, report that they will not appeal against the verdict.

The republic's clergy have failed to timely inform the public about the first day of Eid al-Fitr, said residents of Chechnya. According to their story, they believed the information of the Muftiat that the first day will be July 18, not July 17.

The Department of the Russian FSB for the Krasnodar Territory has stopped the case about insulting the President of the Russian Federation, initiated against the Krasnodar activist Darya Polyudova, said Andrei Sabinin, her advocate.