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During the week of June 11-17, 2018, at least one person fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The second annual Artsakh Airfest festival was held at the Stepanakert airport. The event was attended by more than 5000 people. Half of the visitors were tourists from Armenia and other countries.

Karen Grigoryan, a son of the Armenian MP Manvel Grigoryan, who was detained on suspicion of illegally storing weapons, resigned from his post of the Mayor of Echmiadzin.

Azerbaijani opposition activist Rufat Bakhshibeili, detained in Baku, has been released. Law enforcers demanded from him to remove his critical posts in the social network.

At the protest action of the villagers of Nizhnee Mulebki of the Sergokalin District, several persons were detained after a skirmish with "Rosgvardia" servicemen, local residents have reported.

Rufat Bakhshibeili, an activist of the opposition "Musavat" Party, was detained after a search in his apartment near Baku; the whereabouts of the oppositionist is unknown, his party comrades have reported.

More than 100 cases of increasing foodstuff prices on the eve of the Uraza-Bayram holiday were revealed by the Chechen Prosecutor's Office.

Activists of the "Yerkrap" Union of Veterans have blocked traffic outside the building of the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia, demanding to release Manvel Grigoryan.

The consecration ceremony of the new church "Surb Vardanank", built for the funds of the charitable foundation "Development of Armenian Villages" took place in the city of Chartar, Martuni District of Nagorno-Karabakh. The Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan took part in the ceremony.

In Maykop, the capital of Adygea, at least 2000 believers attended an open-air collective namaz (prayer) on the occasion of Uraza-Bayram, said Eldar Cheuzh, one of the organizers of the event. Tourists could not only watch the festive prayer, but also take part in it.

The prize fund at equestrian races held in Cherkessk, the capital of Karachay-Cherkessia, dedicated to the Day of Russia, the 73rd anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the Uraza-Bayram holiday, amounted to 3 million roubles.

On June 10-16, Azerbaijani militaries fired 2500 shots at the positions of the Defence Army, the Nagorno-Karabakh Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

Exercises involving tanks and artillery were held near the troops contact line. 2000 militaries successfully countered the attack of conventional enemy, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

In the opinion of Tevan Pogosyan, a political analyst, the start of the accumulation pension system in Armenia, under which citizens will contribute their own funds into their future pensions, will degrade authorities' rating. This duty violates the citizens' ownership rights, Anahit Beglaryan, a lawyer, believes.

The US State Department has warned American tourists about the terrorist threat that exists in the regions of Northern Caucasus and the cities hosting the FIFA World Cup.

Russian militaries have detained a woman with two young children near the village of Atotsi on the border with South Ossetia.

Today, in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, policemen detained protesters who demanded freedom for political prisoners. Soon, the detainees were released.

A resident of the Gazakh District of Azerbaijan was wounded in her leg, when she pastured cattle at the border, near positions of the Armenian Army.

During the conflict of residents of the Pankisi Gorge with passengers of the cars decorated with portraits of Akhmat Kadyrov, no one was hurt, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has registered complaints filed by LGBT activists from the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria and six other Russian cities about a refusal to hold LGBT actions. This was reported by Nikolai Alekseev, a rights defender and an LGBT activist.