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The main prosecution witness in Oyub Titiev's case, a drug addict himself, appeared on the air of a Chechen TV channel. However, local residents assert that the story with accusations against Titiev and his colleagues from the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" was unconvincing.

Before the meeting of the US and Russian Presidents in Helsinki, activists of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) called on Donald Trump to condemn the persecution of gays in Chechnya during his conversation with Vladimir Putin.

Ramazan Aliev, the former deputy Prime Minister of Dagestan, has been charged with abuse of authority, and his arrest has been extended up to two months, reports a source from the Dagestani law enforcement bodies.

The Georgian government has pronounced the decision to suspend the operation of the Mindeli Mine in Tkibuli. Today, according to the preliminary version voiced by investigators, a methane explosion has occurred and four persons have been killed. The trade unions believe the authorities pronounced the decision to stop the mine operation too late.

During the week of July 9-15, 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.

Mass riots in the Azerbaijani city of Ganja; resignation of the Mayor in Yerevan; the approval of the new Cabinet of Ministers in Georgia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 9-15, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has launched an investigation into an accident at the Mindeli mine, as a result of which four persons have been killed and six others have been injured today.

In the village of Vtoroy Lesken, residents of Kumakhov Street have disseminated a video appeal with a complaint about the long absence of water supply. According to the villagers, they are willing to pay for the necessary work to restore the water supply, but the local authorities ignore their proposal.

The participation of Muslim teams, namely, of the national teams of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, in the FIFA World Cup aroused no surge of interest in Northern Caucasus, even taking into account the accommodation of the Egyptian team in Chechnya. This opinion was voiced by the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

On the ninth anniversary of the death of Natalia Estemirova, a member of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Chechnya, rights defenders have declared their willingness to continue fighting to release their colleague Oyub Titiev, accused of drug possession.

On July 15, at the border, according to the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD), Azerbaijani soldiers detained a member of an Armenian reconnaissance and sabotage grouping, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reported.

About 50 women from Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Adygea, and other regions of Russia appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to return their daughters and grandchildren from Iraqi prisons.

Residents of the highland region of Racha are cut off from the outside world after the river high water after downpours washed off the bridge, said Archil Djaparidze, the governor of the Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti Region.

Public humiliations of Ramzan Kadyrov's critics and announcement of the persons turning to the head of Chechnya to be crazy make one doubt the mental disorder of the local resident, who has declared vegetables grown in the republic as harmful. This is the opinion of experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

A rally against the bill on the voluntary study of native languages was held in Elista, the capital of Kalmykia, in parallel with the sports and entertainment events arranged by the Mayoralty in the same place. The participants of the rally treated the authorities' actions as an attempt to disrupt the rally.

They are actively discussing the information about Makhachkala children's poisoning because of dirty water in the Caspian Sea. However, there is no official confirmation of this data.

On July 8-14, the Azerbaijani armed forces fired more than 1500 shots on the positions of the Defence Army, reported the Nagorno-Karabakh Ministry of Defence (MoD).

Alexander Gorbunov, a native of Makhachkala, mentioned by the RBC as an author of the "Stalingulag" channel in Telegram, may be subjected to persecution.

Law enforcers have refused to explain the reasons for the detention of six villagers in the Shelkovskoy District of Chechnya and do not allow relatives to visit them, fellow villagers of the detainees report.

Over the past day, the Armenian armed forces violated the ceasefire regime by using large-calibre machine guns, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) reported.