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Azamat Shikhavov and Zavur Khamutaev, defendants in the case of the murder of a Moscow policeman, are wanted on suspicion of committing similar crimes in Dagestan. According to the authorities, at home, both men are well-known as active members of the armed underground.

Last night, Sogomon Kocharyan, a Karabakh war veteran, freed from a life sentence by the court because of his decease, has died in hospital.

In Volgograd, in the territory of the stadium under construction in preparation for the Football World Cup, workers were seriously injured as a result of the collapse of metal frameworks.

In Baku, Akhmedkhan Ziyadkhanov, a resident of Saint Petersburg, was detained while he was trying to fly to Turkey for further travelling to Syria with the intention to join the "Islamic State" (IS), recognized a terrorist organization. This was reported by the Border Guard Service of Azerbaijan.

In Volgograd, people held an action in protection of animals "Beauty Requires No Victims". According to organizers of the action, workers of the shopping centre and sellers of leather and fur clothes tried to oppose the activists.

Law enforcers have cancelled the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime in the Leninsky District of Makhachkala and the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan.

The right to life of Akhmed Buzurtanov, a coach of the Ingush fight club "Kaloi", was violated, and the Russian authorities failed to properly investigate his kidnapping in North Ossetia. This was recognized by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Abdulgasan Abdulkhalikov, killed today in the village of Novy Khushet, was the leader of the "Makhachkala" militant grouping. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

The special operation is being carried out at the garden community of the Karabudakhkent District, where law enforcers are searching for members of the armed underground.

After two linemen of the railway were killed in the Makhachkala village of Novy Khushet, the counterterrorist (CTO) legal regime was introduced.

After the road traffic accident in the Tula Region, which involved the bus on the route Moscow-Yerevan, a 68-year-old passenger remained in critical condition and died from heart failure.

The human rights organization "Freedom House" has called on the Georgian authorities to stop interfering in the media activities. The "Freedom House" has condemned the court's decision in the case of the "Rustavi 2" TV Channel.

The criminal proceedings against Nail Bikmaev, Imam of the Central Mosque in Rostov-on-Don, have been stopped. Earlier, he has been accused of inciting inter-confessional hatred. The Prosecutor's Office offered him a written apology for the unjustified prosecution.

In Buynaksk, law enforcers conducted detentions of believers of a Salafi mosque and shot into the air, witnesses report. According to them, two persons were detained. Officials from the Buynaksk GOVD (City Interior Division) have reported that no detainees were brought to the GOVD.

The office of the Ingush human rights organization "Mashr" was searched to put pressure on its leader Magomed Mutsolgov. This opinion was expressed by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". Magomed Mutsolgov himself believes that he received warnings about possible criminal proceedings against him because of his public activities.

The search at the office of the Ingush organization "Mashr" has been completed, reports its leader Magomed Mutsolgov. Staff members of the Investigating Department for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) seized a large package of documents.

Russian political analysts have expressed different opinions concerning the new claim of the Egyptian grouping "Vilayat Sinai" on its involvement of the crash of the Airbus A321. According to Georgy Mirsky, the terror act could be an act of revenge for the bombing in Syria.

In Dagestan, Eduard Khidirov, the leader of the faction of the "Patriots of Russia" Party at the National Assembly of Dagestan, has been involved in a criminal case for creating a criminal grouping. The investigating authorities have announced their intention to detain an MP; however, till present, his whereabouts is still unknown.

The court has granted the investigators' request in the Sagid Murtazaliev's case and arrested Magomed Magomedov, a staff member of the Criminal Investigation Department for Kizlyar, suspected of involvement in the assassination of Shevket Kudjaev, Deputy Chief of the Centre for Combating Extremism. He faces life imprisonment.

During the meeting with citizens in Buynaksk, Abdurashid Magomedov, Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, met MPs from the "Party of Russian Veterans" and promised to investigate the circumstances of the dispersal of their meetings with voters.