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Azerbaijan has not bought weapons from the United States, but has all the means to protect its sovereignty, political analysts in Baku said in their comments on a possible ban on the supply of American weapons to Azerbaijan.

Authorities have achieved the transfer of the "Rustavi-2" TV Company to Kibar Khalvashi in order to influence the company's editorial policy, the Georgian experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

In the Nalchik SIZO (pre-trial prison), law enforcers have beaten up Bagaudin Myakiev, the arrested member of the Ingush Council of Teips, his advocate, Fatima Urusova, has informed.

Kibar Khalvashi has appointed his advocate Paata Saliya the general director of the "Rustavi-2". Nika Gvaramiya refused to leave the post of the head of the TV Company, stating that his contract is valid until the end of 2020.

A report shown in the evening on July 17 by the "Grozny" TV Company, in which a girl taken out of Moscow denied the information about her coercion to marriage, has caused distrust among residents of Chechnya. A marriage against will is not uncommon in Northern Caucasus, the rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

In case of a change in the owner of the "Rustavi-2" TV Company, residents of Georgia are at risk of losing access to objective information on the situation in the country, participants of the action held at the building of the TV Company have voiced out their concerns today.

Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized as legitimate the decision of the Supreme Court (SC) of Georgia to transfer the assets of the "Rustavi-2" TV Channel to Kibar Khalvashi, the former owner of the TV Company. The businessman himself promised not to interfere in the editorial policy of the TV Channel, but threatened to dismiss Nika Gvaramiya from the position of general director.

The Armenian armed forces shelled the Azerbaijani positions with large-calibre weapons and wounded soldier Djeikhun Bairamov, the State Border Guard Service of Azerbaijan reports today.

13 people are detained and other six are left under recognizance not to leave on suspicion of disorderly conduct and an attack on law enforcers in Ijevan, investigators report today. The Armenian Prime Minister has called the demands of the protesters unreasonable.

Law enforcers had no reasons to disrupt an unsanctioned picket organized by activists of the "Musavat" Party in front of the Iranian Embassy, since no permission of the Baku authorities is required to hold protest actions, state members of the "Musavat" Party.

On July 17, the Russian State Duma adopted in the second reading a bill to equate to war veterans the volunteers who were opposing the invasion of Chechen militants into Dagestan. The new edition of the bill also provides for monthly payments.

On July 17, law enforcers disrupted the picket organized by activists of the "Musavat" Party in front of the Iranian Embassy in Baku. More than 10 people were detained. Later, the protesters were released, except for Elman Guliev, the leader of the "Musavat" youth organization.

On July 17, in Tbilisi, in front of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), activists held a protest performance entitled "Shoot at Me" with the demand for the resignation of Georgian Interior Minister Giorgi Gakhariya, the "First Channel" reports on its website.

Law enforcers were injured as a result of clashes with residents of the Tavush Region of Armenia, who blocked the road and demanded to allow them cutting down trees in the forest of Dilijan.

Idris Baisultanov, a Ramzan Kadyrov's cousin, has become a deputy to his fellow villager Galas Taimaskhanov, appointed earlier to the post of the head of the administration of the head of Chechnya. This demonstrates the family-clannish cadre policy that is characteristic not only of Chechnya, but also of the federal authorities, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Kemal Bytdaev, the head of the branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), has been detained within the case of organizing an unsanctioned rally in Cherkessk the capital of the republic. Bytdaev himself and his comrades accuse the authorities of political pressure on the party in connection with the elections to the republic's parliament.

The defence of the Ingush activists, Akhmet Barakhoev, Musa Malsagov, Malsag Uzhakhov and Barakh Chemurziev has appealed against their removal from Ingushetia and the denial of access to the case materials. The activists are intimidated and blackmailed, said the advocates.

Officials once again ignored a picket held by Murtazali Gasanguseinov, whom the authorities refused to sanction a rally with the demand for an effective investigation into the case on the murders of sons. Murtazali Gasanguseinov intends to seek a meeting with the Mayor of Makhachkala.

Investigators searched the office of Judge David Grigoryan, who ruled the decision to release from custody Robert Kocharyan, the second president of Armenia. Defence of Robert Kocharyan and independent lawyers believe that David Grigoryan and the judicial system as a whole are under pressure.

Last night, the Azerbaijani armed forces have shelled an Armenian village, and bullets hit roofs of houses, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reports. According to the head of the rural community, starting from July 11, the Azerbaijani armed forces are shelling the sown fields for a fire to break out there.