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On July 10, in Nagorno-Karabakh, the court of first instance sentenced Ara Avetyan and Sergey Arutyunyan to 11 and 9 years of imprisonment, respectively, on charges of attempting to assassinate Vitaly Balasanyan, ex-presidential candidate, a deputy of the National Assembly.

The state prosecutor asked to sentence four out of 16 Jehovah's Witnesses, tried in the city of Taganrog, Rostov Region, to six years in a general-regime colony, said Victor Zhenkov, an advocate. According to the press release of the Administrative Centre of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, received today by the "Caucasian Knot", prosecutors failed to formulate the essence of the presented charges.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Russia has stated that today, as a result of actions of Ukrainian power agents, the checkpoint "Gukovo" located on the Russian-Ukrainian border was shelled by artillery; nobody was hurt.

At the trial for the murder of Yegor Scherbakov, a resident of the Moscow district of Biryulyovo, the defendant Orkhan Zeinalov said he did not sign any protocols of the interrogations, which, according to the case files, had been held during the preliminary investigation, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Shakhin Novruzlu, an activist of the "Nida" movement, who was sentenced to six years in prison, has appealed to President Ilham Aliev for clemency, adding that he decided to give up any further political activities, the Penitentiary Service of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has reported today.

Relatives of Khusein Dakhtaev, who was suspected of the shooting of Akhmed Dopaev, a staff member of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and who was killed on July 3 in Grozny, were expelled from the village of Goi-Chu of the Urus-Martan District of Chechnya, where they used to live. According to the district administration, the decision was made and pronounced at the gathering of villagers of Goi-Chu.

An advocate of Imangazali Magomedov, a resident of the village of Shaumyan of the Kizlyar District of Dagestan, suspected of illegal possession of weapons, has filed a complaint to the head of the Investigating Department for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). According to the advocate, local investigators and policemen ignore the complaints filed against the facts of beating of her client during his arrest.

In the Rostov Region, a magistrate has fined the public organization "Union of Don Women" 300,000 roubles for a charge of political activities without entering the register of "foreign agents".

In the evening of July 9, in the Volgograd Region, the city of Volzhsky hosted a picket "Case Against Parshin is Case Against Me". The picket was organized by the Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) in support of Nikolai Parshin, a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the leader of the Volgograd Committee of the CPRF.

In the Untsukul District of Dagestan, law enforcers have left the village of Maidanskoe. This was reported by local residents in the evening of July 9.

In Kizilyurt, during an armed attack, Aitemir Salimgereev, ex-Chief of the Kizilyurt GOVD (City Interior Division), was tortured prior to his death. This was reported by the Investigating Department for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Eight residents of the village of Maidanskoe, Untsukul District of Dagestan, are missing after the special operation, locals told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. They added that the village is still blocked by power agents.

As reported by a law enforcement source from Dagestan, Aitemir Salimgereev, a former head of the ROVD (District Interior Division), was killed in his house in Kizilyurt.

Today is exactly one year after the murder in Dagestan of Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. Officials and investigators state that every effort is made to solve the murder, but no results are available so far. The case should be handed over to the federal investigation centre, renowned lawyers believe.

The Federation Council – the upper chamber of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation – has approved the bill to create a new gambling zone in the city of Sochi. According to the document, gambling activities can be undertaken in the Olympic facilities, built not by the budget money.

Today, Jalil Ametov, a son of the farmer who was assassinated in the village of Kuschevskaya, has identified the body presented to him as the body of the criminal gang leader Sergey Tsapok, said Natalia Miller, the advocate of the victims of the massacre in Kuschevskaya.

In Chechnya, the criminal case against a resident of the Urus-Martan District, who is accused of killing his younger sister, has been brought to the court. Investigators believe that the man has committed a so-called "honour killing". The suspect has confessed to the crime. This was reported by officials from the Chechen law enforcement agencies.

The North-Caucasian District Military Court has found both Said Amirov, dismissed Mayor of Makhachkala, and his nephew Yusup Djaparov, guilty of plotting a terror act, and sentenced them to 10 and 8.5 years of imprisonment, respectively. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent from the courtroom.

Today, in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, unidentified persons have shelled a car with two persons inside it. One of them was a policeman and he died from his wounds. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Dagestan.

Staff members of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) did not stop their activities to reveal and investigate the crimes involving Said Amirov, Mayor of Makhachkala, who was dismissed from office. In this connection, investigator may reveal new episodes of his criminal activities. This has been reported today by Vladimir Markin, Spokesperson of the ICRF.