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Within a week, the authorities of Chechnya failed to react publicly to the appeal of two women from Chechnya to Ramzan Kadyrov, in which they complained about inhuman treatment of their relatives kept in Russian colonies.

The Constitutional Court (CC) of Georgia has granted the claim of activists of the "Girchi" Party, having recognized the administrative punishment for the use of marijuana to be unconstitutional.

The information about the shelling of policemen in the Novolaksky District is untrue, said the spokesperson of the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). According to his version, there were no attempts to attack law enforcers.

The four suspects of committing assassination attempt on the head of Ganja and organizing subsequent riots were killed by law enforcers, dozens of people were arrested or declared wanted, the Azerbaijani General Public Prosecutor has announced. However, a rights defender told the "Caucasian Knot" that the investigation is not transparent.

In Moscow, a charge has been brought against a young man detained after an attack on a policeman with a knife. During an interrogation, the native of Chechnya has voiced his dislike of law enforcers, a source reported.

Secret services check information about the shelling of a police squad in the Novolaksky District. No information about possible victims is reported, a source reports today.

Today, members of NGOs and journalists have appealed to the Azerbaijani Ministry of Justice (MoJ) with a request to let blogger Mekhman Guseinov, sentenced for slander, visit his seriously ill mother.

Guilty verdicts to Ingush CCE agents in the case on torture; arrest of former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan in the case on dispersal of demonstrators in 2008, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 23-29, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Since early 2017, 125 people, who fell victim to persecution, left Chechnya, the "Kommersant" reports today in the article "In the Chechen Republic, there are no sex minorities or their number drops" with reference to a member of the movement "Russian LGBT-Network".

The death toll of eight people includes a child, investigators reported. The dead were workers from the CIS countries, who lived in a temporary shelter on a railway right-of-way, the Sochi administration reported.

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.