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The arrested politician Tofig Yagublu was placed into a cell where people with infectious diseases are kept, his daughter has stated, expressing her fear that this could undermine her father's health.

In the Tavush Region of Armenia, the opponent's shelling wounded 36 military servicemen, two policemen and one local resident, the authorities have reported. As of July 16, the number of killed Armenian soldiers was four; while the total number of victims reached 43.

On July 16, the warfare continued, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed. The villagers from the Tovuz District interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" were forced to evacuate their children and elderly relatives.

The Muftiate of Dagestan has urged those who come to the republic to respect local "traditions and foundations" with their behaviour and appearance. The clergy cannot dictate to the guests of the region how to dress, residents of the republic and social network users believe.

Smokers of tobacco in Chechnya cannot be legally brought to community works and public rebukes, since this habit is not a crime, Caucasian scholars and lawyers believe.

The presenter Aiza Anokhina, who told about her father's work for special services and his involvement in the death of Djokhar Dudaev, has caused a threat of blood feud on her whole family. The videos with apologies will not affect this situation, residents of Chechnya believe.

The practice of public condemnations and apologies adopted in Chechnya is humiliating for residents of the republic, and it increases their discontent with the policy of the authorities, note human rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina and political analyst Ali Magomedov after the Chechen law enforcement bodies had posted a new video with apologies.

For the second time after a conflict in Manas, law enforcers are conducting a raid with visits to every house and yard in the Dagestan village of Gubden, local residents report.

A resident of the border village of Chinari was seriously injured during a shelling attack by an Azerbaijani unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reported.

The investigation into the Ramzan Kadyrov's connections with big businesses did not cause any public outcry in Chechnya, since local residents have long been aware of the scheme of earnings for regional leaders, notes Ruslan Kutaev, the president of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations.

On July 15, the youth wing of the ARF "Dashnaktsutyun" Party held a rally in front of the Ukrainian Embassy in Armenia. The activists protested against the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Ukraine concerning the "territorial integrity of Azerbaijan" in connection with the aggravation of the conflict on the border. The protesters poured borsch over the building of the Ukrainian Embassy.

Over the 11 years, during which the murder of Natalia Estemirova remains unsolved, the flow of appeals from residents of Chechnya to human rights defenders has decreased significantly amid the deterioration of the situation with human rights violations, claim colleagues of the murdered journalist. They associated the above fact with strengthening of the atmosphere of fear in the Chechen Republic.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) recognized a violation of rights of Azerbaijani human rights defenders Leyla and Arif Yunus under several articles of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Strasbourg Court obliged the authorities of Azerbaijan to pay the human rights defenders the compensation in the amount of 51,000 euros.

The Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) treats the persecution of its activists, Farid Asadov and Elvin Bakhmanoglu as political. The whereabouts of Asadov after his detention is unknown; Bakhmanoglu was arrested for 15 days, Gezyal Bairamly, the PFPA deputy chair, has stated.

Armenian militaries tried to attack Azerbaijani positions by shelling the villages of the Tovuz District with large-calibre weapons and mortars, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

Russia has used the agreement on exchange of intelligence information with the USA to search for residents of Chechnya who fled from the republic to Europe, sources in European security and intelligence structures have stated.

In Chechnya, law enforcers and employees of budget-funded organizations were instructed to write laudatory comments about the actions of the republic's authorities and ridicule criticism thereof.

During the shelling conducted by Azerbaijani militaries, in the Tavush Region of Armenia 22 houses were damaged, said Arman Tatoyan, the Armenian Ombudsman.

Narek Sardaryan, a resident of Armenia, has crossed the border with the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) and asked for Azerbaijani citizenship, the authorities of this country report. Armenia, in its turn, denies Sardaryan's voluntary crossing of the border, stating that he disappeared a few days ago.

Residents of Dagestan travel to Chechnya by buses, while taxi drivers agree to bring people only to the border, where residents of other regions must present a certificate stating that they are not sick with coronavirus. In recent days, policemen are no longer demanding such certificates from all passengers; therefore, the queues on the border have decreased, drivers inform.