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At the beginning of the today's hearing at the North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, Arthur Panov, a citizen of Ukraine, accused of plotting a terror act, has reported that he declared a hunger strike on June 25 with the demand to extradite him to Ukraine.

Today, in the town of Gukovo in the Rostov Region, miners of the "Kingcoal" Company have gathered for a new sanctioned picket. They claim that they did not receive their wages. The miners announced that they went on hunger strike in protest.

Alexei Kolyasnikov, a pastor from Sochi, was supposed to notify the authorities on holding a public event. This was stated by a Russian representative to the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) in response to the ECtHR's question concerning the legality of the position of Russian courts which fined the pastor after the collective reading of the Bible in a cafe.

The "Sberbank" has launched a check into the information that Magomed Daudov, Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, demanded 30 million roubles from Said-Magomed Djabrailov, the chief of the Chechen branch of the "Sberbank".

On July 3, the court hearing in the case against 18 members of the unit "Sasna Tsrer" (Daredevils of Sassoun) took place in a tense atmosphere. The court repeatedly interrupted the hearing. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, who attended the trial.

On July 3, in Baku, at a hearing held in the case against blogger Alexander Lapshin, the court questioned witnesses Eiyub Abdulazimov and Fakhraddin Safarov, internally displaced persons from the Shusha District. The witnesses told about the insult, inflicted on them by the blogger Alexander Lapshin's publications about Nagorno-Karabakh.

On July 3, the Supreme Court (SC) of Abkhazia sentenced a local resident to 20 years of imprisonment on the charges of raping and killing his nine-year-old daughter. His suspected accomplice was sentenced to 19 years of imprisonment.

Said-Magomed Djabrailov, the head of the Chechen branch of Russian "Sberbank" (Savings Bank), is suspected of illegally cashing more than one billion roubles through his bank and a number of one-day companies. This was reported to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya.

The objectivity of the final attestation at Takhtamukai School No. 1 causes no doubt; and any retake of the Uniformed State Examinations (USE) by the former official's daughter is out of question. This was stated by reported by Anzaur Kerashev, the Minister of Education and Sciences of the Republic of Adygea.

In the village of Terekli-Mekteb, participants of the rally broke into a building of the administration for the Nogai District of Dagestan during a meeting in which Baimagomed Yarlykapov was introduced as an acting head of the Nogai District.

The quota for Dagestani pilgrims has been fully filled, and the reception of documents has been suspended. The persons who want to go to the Hajj this year may sign up for the reserve, reports the "Marva-Tour", a company sending pilgrims to the Hajj.

In Azerbaijan, the court has sentenced Shiite theologian Sardar Babaev, accused of violating the requirements for conducting of religious ceremonies. The defence intends to challenge the verdict.

Four persons were injured in a fire at the "Eliava" market in the Georgian capital. Of them, two victims still stay in the hospital. According to the market's tenants, the fire affected 120 stores.

After the guilty verdict pronounced in the case of the Boris Nemtsov's murder, Zaur Dadaev still does not admit his guilt. He called suspicious the long discussion of the verdict by the jury. The man has said that he holds the fasting in prison and reads books on history.

An Internet user has published a photo with the name of the Chechen capital made on a wall of an ancient building in the Syrian city of Palmyra. Users of social networks have suggested that the inscription was left by Russian soldiers, who participated in the military operation in Syria.

The North-Caucasian District Military Court has found Khiramagomed Magomedov, a Dagestani public activist, guilty and sentenced him to imprisonment in a high-security penal colony.

Many residents of Chechnya have found as predictable the verdict of the jury to find natives of Chechnya and Ingushetia guilty of the Boris Nemtsov's murder. According to the Chechen residents, persons who ordered and organized the murder will not be named. Relatives of the defendants treat them as innocent.

Announcement of the jury's verdict in Boris Nemtsov's murder case; capture by Ukrainian soldiers of a Russian citizen, whose mother reported about his military service in the Rostov Region; beating at the Yerevan court of defendants in the "Sasna Tsrer" case, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of June 26-July 2, 2017, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

During the week from June 26 to July 2, 2017, in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, no casualties and victims were recorded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Khusein Khalmurzaev, a judoka from Ingushetia, won the Grand Prix Hohhot 2017 in China in the weight category of up to 90 kg.