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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.

On July 16, the General Prosecutor's Office of Georgia reported about the detention of another employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in the case on abuse of power during the dispersal of the protest action in front of the parliament building in Tbilisi.

The Russian authorities had a chance to build relations with the regions on the principle of "strong centre means strong regions"; however, the opportunity was missed, claimed the report presented at the International "Memorial". According to authors of the report, the federal relations in Russia have degraded.

A conflict over pastures on the border between Dagestan and Chechnya is not related to the definition of borders between the republics, but it was of "domestic nature", the administration of the Vedeno District announced.

On July 16, at a protest action, mothers of the men, arrested in the "Ganja case", demanded to release their sons and investigate their complaints of torture. Law enforcers stopped the protest action and detained the protestors, but soon set them free.

The situation around the "David Gareja" Monastery Complex is being aggravated by forces seeking to undermine the strategic partnership between the two countries, believe Azerbaijani political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Authorities of Chechnya are promptly solving residents' problems voiced out on air of the programme with Ramzan Kadyrov broadcast on the local TV. Kadyrov has entirely copied the practice of "Direct Lines" with Putin, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

Russian citizens permanently residing in Georgia have held an action aimed to overturn the Russian authorities' statements that it is unsafe to travel to Georgia.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan refused to grant the appeal filed by the authorities of the Untsukul District to challenge the verdict about their inaction on paying compensations to residents of the Vremenny village for their houses that had been destroyed during a counterterrorist operation (CTO).

Two militiamen were hospitalized with wounds after an attempt to detain a man suspected of robberies and kidnapping, reports the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for South Ossetia.

Only performers approved by a special commission can play live concerts and upload videos with songs on the Internet, the Chechen Minister of Culture has announced.

Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has announced that it found to be discriminatory the refusal of the Russian authorities to register the "Sochi Pride House", an organization of LGBT activists.

Today, Murtazali Gasanguseinov, a father of the killed shepherds, as well as colleagues of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a correspondent of the newspaper "Chernovik" (Draft), accused of financing terrorism, hold solo pickets in the central square of Makhachkala.

Over the entire modern history of Ingushetia, law enforcers never arrested Ingush women for their civic position and for political reasons, stated Ingush politicians and public figures.

On July 15, Yulia Melnichenko, a resident of Mozdok, held a picket during which she demanded from the authorities to investigate the beating of her brother Rostislav by law enforcers. After Yulia Melnichenko had met the chief of the Investigating Department for North Ossetia of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the investigation into the case on beating was taken over by the department for particularly important cases, reported advocate Andrei Sabinin.

The practice to deport citizens of Russia, who applied for asylum, including natives of Chechnya, is intensified in Europe, but this does not comply with the principles of the international law, notes human rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina. There are successful examples when the problem of deportation could be solved with the help of human rights defenders, notes journalist Elena Milashina.