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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.

Medallist Ruzanna Tuko has become a participant in the show of the "Spas" Orthodox TV Channel. Arkady Mamontov, a well-known journalist, has suggested the school-leaver to become "the youngest State Duma MP."

Movsum Samedov, the leader of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan, is subjected to pressure in a penal colony. This was stated by advocate Yalchin Imanov. He believes provocations threatening his client's health and life can occur.

In Kuban, a school-leaver of the ninth form was not given his certificate at a school-leaving party because of his debts for school meals in the amount of 600 roubles. He got the document on the day after the solemn ceremony, his mother reported.

At night of July 1, in Baku, the "Haji Javad" mosque was destroyed in the "Sovetskaya" area. There, old buildings are massively demolished for the purpose of urban improvement and construction of new roads. Earlier, believers were promised that the mosque would not be demolished until another mosque was built in another place.

The judge of the Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala, whose car was burned down in Kerimov Street at night on June 30, had participated in many high-profile trials, namely: the case of Badrudin Musaev, a son of Makhachkala Mayor; the arrest of Imam Magomednabi Magomedov; the assassination case of Gasanguseinov brothers, and trials on complicity to militants.

After meeting the prosecutor, Zhanna Mazikhova, Director General and owner of the Closed Joint-Stock Company (CJSC) "Zvezda Elbrusa", and Arthur Baidaev, a former director general of the company, who are on a dry hunger strike in Nalchik, agreed to switchover to bread and water.

The antiterrorist video, screened in central Krasnodar, was commented in social networks for the video of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in Russia.

The family from the village of Stalskoe, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, which has lost a four-year-old boy, has complained to the "Roszdravnadzor" (Russian Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare) about doctors' actions. The Dagestani Ministry of Public Health recognized doctors' mistake but restricted itself with a reprimand, the "Chernovik" weekly reports.

At the election of the rector of the North-Caucasian Mining and Metallurgical Institute, over half of the ballot papers were spoiled. The staff of the higher school demands from the Ministry of Education of North Ossetia to approve the candidates nominated by the structural units of the institute, but not admitted to the election.

The court has sentenced Emmin Shakhgiriev, a resident of Chechnya, to an administrative fine for posting songs of the Chechen poet and singer Timur Mutsuraev on the Internet. The songs are on the list of extremist materials.