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A criminal case has been instituted against chiefs and employees of the film studio "Chechenfilm" after a complaint filed by Vladimir Medinsky, Russian Minister of Culture, the RBC reports today.

Today, early in the morning, a fire has broken out in a private apartment building in Sochi. Various sources reported at least nine victims of the fire, including seven dead.

On July 29-30, the ceasefire regime on the contact line at the border with Armenia and in the Karabakh conflict zone was violated 92 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) reports today.

During the week of July 23-29, 2018, no one fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

On July 29, the "Civil Contract" Party headed by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan nominated comedian actor Hayk Marutyan as a candidate to run for the post of Yerevan Mayor.

On July 29, in the centre of Volgograd, a flash mob was held in support of Aslan Yandiev, accused of involvement in a series of terror acts in North Ossetia. Activists of the human rights association "Vaifund" took part in the action.

All the participants of the Noble Partner 2018 multinational NATO exercises to be held on August 1-15 have arrived in Georgia. In total, more than 3000 soldiers and officers from 13 countries will take part in the exercises.

The charge brought against Robert Kocharyan, the second president of Armenia, is based on the testimony given by anonymous witnesses and contains no specific statements, and the court ignored his immunity, advocates have stated.

They came to the rally with posters "No to cannibalistic pension reform!", "No to increase of retirement age!" and "Pension reform is genocide of Russian people!"

During the week from July 22 to July 28, Azerbaijani militaries violated the ceasefire regime for 300 times; a soldier was wounded during one of the bombardments, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh has stated.

Gadjimagomed Guseinov, the Director of the Department of Budget Policy in Economy Sectors of the Russian Ministry of Finance, has been appointed to the post of the acting Deputy Chairman of the Government of Dagestan (acting Vice Prime Minister).

Yuri Khachaturov, the Secretary General of the CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization, also known as the ODKB), who was accused within the case of dispersal of protest actions in Yerevan on March 1-2, 2008, was arrested until depositing a bail of over 10,000 US dollars.

In Chechen mosques, thousands of believers made their collective namazes (prayers) in connection with a complete lunar eclipse. Muslims were called to repeatedly remember the Almighty and pray for pardon, the Chechen Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) has stated.

Ibragim Yangulbaev, a resident of Chechnya, arrested on charges of extremism, complained about a non-rendered medical help to him after a complex surgery. According to his defence, Yangulbaev is in grave condition, the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper reports.

Zafar Akhmedov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has been arrested for 30 days on charges of disobeying the police. His arrest has to do with his struggle for the release of political prisoners, including his son Fuad Akhmedli, the PFPA has stated.

The information about the fabrication of the criminal case against the Chechen rights defender Oyub Titiev, persecutions of gays, "honour killings" and extrajudicial executions in Chechnya has not been confirmed, members of the Russian delegation told the UN Committee against Torture (CaT).

A Yerevan court has arrested Robert Kocharyan, the second president of Armenia, charged with dispersing demonstrators in 2008, for two months. His defence intends to appeal against the arrest.

Law enforcement sources have reported that on July 26 a search was conducted in a high-rise apartment house in the city of Derbent, which the locals took for a counterterrorist operation (CTO), intended to block militants.

Six employees of the Ingush Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE or "E" Centre) have been sentenced to imprisonment from three to 10 years; the seventh one received a conditional punishment.

Guests of Dagestan should be informed about the customs in the republic, believe some users of social networks who read a check list prepared by the "Rosseti" for its employees. Other Internet users criticized the idea of the company.