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Public employees reported a large-scale subbotniks (Saturday voluntary work) in the territory of the cemeteries in the Kurchaloi District held on July 22. The subbotnik was the first such event organized after the appointment of Khamkhat Kadyrov the head of the district. Public employees reported that they were obliged to take part in the subbotnik.

The number of violations by Azerbaijan of the ceasefire regime has dramatically decreased, Levon Mnatsakanyan, the head of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), has stated. However, today the parties have exchanged threats of attacks on civilian objects.

The court in Baku has rejected the defence's motion to transfer Agil Magerramov, a member of the presidium of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), under house arrest. The defence intends to appeal against the refusal.

The former Dagestani head will now represent Russia's interests in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, sources report.

A trial in the case against Seda Dudurkaeva, who was detained in Istanbul and who was a daughter of the former chief of the Federal Migration Service (FMS) Department for Chechnya, is scheduled for mid-August, reported a detainee's mother. According to the woman, her daughter is kept in prison with two sons of 3.5 and 1.5 years old.

In Poti, a policeman is accused of abuse of authority after the man wounded by him died. The defence demanded to re-classify the case and pointed to the trauma got by the policeman during the detention of the suspected robber.

The Ukrainian tourist who got lost on Tetnuldi Mount in Mestiya died.

Despite his loss of the final fight of the World Boxing Super Series, Murat Gassiev was warmly greeted by hundreds of fans in Vladikavkaz. His fight with Oleksandr Usyk from Ukraine revealed boxing style weaknesses of the young Ossetian athlete; Gassiev needs experience of fighting with different rivals prior to passing over to the heavyweight category, his fans have noted.

The killing of two policemen in the Kizilyurt District was committed by the last grouping of militants, active in Dagestan, said a source from the republic's law enforcement bodies. The spokesman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) did not confirm the information that a reward of one million roubles has been assigned for the capture of these militants.

Languages of minor nations of Russia are a unique cultural asset of the whole world; and a bill on the voluntary study of these languages will lead to their death, about 90 linguists from European countries have stated.

Kabardino-Balkaria has launched an educational project on the Circassian culture "Under the Tree", aimed at acquainting children with the richness of traditional Circassian culture, Professor Lydia Zhigunova from the Tulane University (USA), has stated.

Tactical exercises involving more than 3000 military personnel have been started at the Russian base in Armenia, the press service of the Southern Military District reported.

During the week of July 16-22, 2018, two persons were killed and another was wounded in 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.

When stating inadmissibility for extension of NATO's borders and, at the same time, restoring diplomatic relations with Georgia, Russia uses the "carrot and stick" method against the country, believe Georgian political analysts.

An incident during the exercises, which frightened residents in the village of Panik, resulted from a mistake made by the Russian and Armenian sides, reported David Tonoyan, Armenian Minister of Defence.

On July 22, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs (MFAs) for South Ossetia and Syria signed an agreement on the establishment of diplomatic relations. Another important outcome of the meeting was an agreement on the visit of the South-Ossetian President Anatoly Bibilov to Damascus.

Attack of IS* militants on policemen in Dagestan; workers killed by explosion in Georgian mine; start of Oyub Titiev's trial in Chechnya; ECtHR's decision on inefficiency of investigation of Anna Politkovskaya's murder, – read about these and other main events in the Caucasus during the week of July 16-22, 2018, in the review prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Arthur Movsisyan, who was found guilty of transferring firearms to the participants of the movement "100 Years Without Regime" in Armenia, has stopped his hunger strike because of health problems, his advocate has stated.

The "European Georgia" Party has announced nomination of David Bakradze as its candidate for the Georgia's presidency, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

This morning, a road traffic accident involving a minivan and a car has occurred at the 860th kilometre of the federal highway "Kavkaz". As a result of the road traffic accident, two persons were killed and other ten were hospitalized.