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The Ramzan Kadyrov's proposal to build the Transcaucasian High-Speed Railway (HSR) indicates his attempt to reach a new level of financial relations with Moscow. Earlier, the head of Chechnya did not claim to build at such a scale, The Bell reports.

During the trial in the case against agents of the Ingush Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE) at the Nalchik Garrison Military Court, witness Aza Gadieva said that she had defamed Magomed Aushev. After the defamation, Magomed Aushev was detained in the case of a car bombing and tortured.

The fan zones and the areas allocated for them in Southern of Russia failed to house all those who wanted to watch the Uruguay-Russia match. Fans also told us about traffic jams.

Investigators have stopped the case against the defendants accused of organizing mass unrests in July 2016, including against David Sanasaryan, the head of the State Control Service of Armenia.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has rejected the complaint against the judgement to keep Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny branch of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", under arrest until July 9. This is reported by the Telegram-channel of the HRC "Memorial".

On June 25, Ibragim Zakriev, who had been the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic and who is Ramzan Kadyrov's nephew, was appointed the Acting Mayor of Grozny. According to calculations of the "Russian Service of the BBC", a third of the major officials in Chechnya are Ramzan Kadyrov's relatives.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has ordered his ministers to consider the idea of Transcaucasian high-speed railway, offered by the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.

Major-General Vachagan Kazaryan, who was the head of the guards of Serzh Sargsyan, the third President of Armenia, was detained on suspicion of illegal enrichment and concealment of incomes. At detention, a large sum of money was confiscated from him.

Representatives of the Nogai people have sent a proposal to the regional assembly of deputies to hold a referendum on the land issue in the Nogai District. According to the participants of the roundtable, the distant pastures are used not for the intended purpose.

Within the last 24 hours, the Armenian Armed Forces violated the ceasefire on the frontline for 87 times, by using large-calibre machine guns, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

The Egyptian national team has completed its performance at the FIFA World Cup-2018, by losing 1:2 to Saudi Arabia in Volgograd.

At the match in Volgograd, Egyptian fans actively supported their team, despite its unsuccessful performance at the FIFA World Cup-2018. The base in Grozny proved to be inconvenient for footballers; and the team's defeats can be related thereto, the Egyptian fans, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", believe.

The outcome of considering the defence's complaints on the extension of Oyub Titiev's arrest, and about the refusal to initiate a case on the drugs planted on him, is known in advance, the advocate and colleagues of the rights defender have stated. In their opinion, the prosecutor did not even find it necessary to get ready for the trial; while the court ignored the defence's convincing arguments.

In his new song recorded together with the "Leningrad" group, Semyon Slepakov has apologized to the Russian national football team for the song about its failure with Ramzan Kadyrov as the head coach. The new song was performed 11 days after the call of the head of Chechnya to the singer to record a new track.

Shamil Omargadjiev, a native of Dagestan, has been sentenced to 2.5 years of freedom deprivation for illegal arms possession and for the fact that, knowing about the preparation of a terror act in the Kazan Cathedral, he failed to inform the police about it.

Today, Ramzan Kadyrov has signed a decree on appointing the Mayor of Grozny to the post of the Chairman of the Government (Prime Minister) of Chechnya.

Matches of the FIFA World Cup in Sochi, Volgograd, and Rostov-on-Don; approval of the interim government in Georgia; extradition to Russia of North-Ossetian native Aslan Gagiev; Geneva discussions on security in the Caucasus; issue of housing certificates to migrants from villages of Khrakh-Uba and Uryan-Uba; decision on granting material assistance to fire victims from Mokok village in Dagestan, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of June 18-24, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Dmitry Titkov, an oppositionist from Sochi, has applied for political asylum in Sweden. According to his story, he has already received a work permit and learns the Swedish language.

The city of Stepanakert has held a consecration ceremony of three bells and two crosses for the Cathedral of the Holy Protection of God's Mother that is under construction. As reported by Pargev Martirosyan, the Head of the Artsakh (Karabakh) Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, over 3 million US dollars for the construction of the cathedral were donated by philanthropists.

During the week from June 18 to June 24, 2018, no casualties were recorded of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own data and information from other open sources.