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The advocates of the defendants in Boris Nemtsov's murder case has called on the judge to pronounce the verdict in accordance with his internal convictions and conscience, and to find the defendants innocent, or at least pass a softer sentence than requested by the prosecutor. The suffered party has stated Khamzat Bakhaev's innocence.

The administration of the penal colony, where Boris Stomakhin, sentenced for public justification of terrorism, is serving his sentence, does not allow independent psychologists visiting him. This was reported by advocate Roman Kachanov.

In six regions of the Southern Federal District (SFD) and the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), the number of school-leavers with medals is 1.5-2 times higher than the average for Russia. This was reported by the Rosobrnadzor (Russian Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science).

In a video interview to a blogger of the "Caucasian Knot", Zalina Dudueva, a resident of Vladikavkaz, has reported a story of her daughter, who suffers from a disease of autistic spectrum. According to the woman, her daughter was repeatedly subjected to sexual violence, but her complaints to the law enforcement agencies produced no result.

The court has made the detention regime more severe for Boris Stomakhin, sentenced for a material about the terror acts in Volgograd. His serving of a sentence at a high-security penal colony was replaced with detention in prison. His advocate has announced the intention to appeal against the court's decision.

The defence of Anzor Arslanuk, who faces deportation to Syria, has received a response from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). According to the MFA's response, there are no documents to confirm his Russian citizenship.

During the week of July 3-9, 2017, no casualties or victims were recorded in 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.

Zhanna Mazikhova, Director General of the "Zvezda Elbrusa" Hotel, and Arthur Baidaev, the company owner, intend to continue their hunger strike, despite their physical exhaustion. Today, they gave policemen explanations about threats addressed to them.

The journalist, who is suffering from diabetes mellitus, is deprived of medical care, hot food and fresh air at the SIZO (pre-trial prison); and his rights to telephone conversations and meetings with relatives are constantly violated. This was stated by his advocate Elchin Sadygov.

Alavdin Gardaloev, the new chairman of the Supreme Court (SC) of the Chechen Republic, was presented in Grozny. The head of Chechnya commented it by saying that "justice has triumphed."

The intervention of Chechen authorities into conflict in Leninaul undermines the authority of Ramazan Abdulatipov. The head of Dagestan had to come there as the head of delegation on the day of the conflict, journalists Magomed Magomedov and Milrad Fatullaev have stated. On July 11, the situation in the village was stable, locals report.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan has dismissed an appeal filed against the verdict to Rufat Safarov, a former investigator of the Prosecutor's Office, who was sentenced to 9 years of imprisonment in the case of a repeated bribe receipt.

The festive events in the Republic of Ingushetia, also attended by politicians from Moscow, have become a good occasion to look back how the present Republic of Ingushetia was formed and who contributed to its formation.

In Georgia, after protests against innovations in the school curriculum, the Ministry for Education and Science reported that no topics on sexual education or mentioning of the LGBT community were planned to be included in school textbooks on the subject "Me and Society".

The Supreme Court (SC) of Adygea has upheld the decision pronounced by the Maikop City Court to recognize the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" as a foreign agent.

In Khasavyurt, activists from the animal rights organization "Zoohelp" have reported that dogs of which they care were attacked. The attackers broke open all the doors in a pen, killed one dog and beat up six others. This was reported by the animal rights defenders.

Relatives and friends of the suspected militants detained in December 2016-January 2017 trust the information released by the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" about extrajudicial execution in Chechnya.

Authors of the second part of the multivolume monograph "Radical Islamist movements on the political map of the modern world" have explored the specifics of Muslim radicalization in Northern and Southern Caucasus.

Ilya Pyanzin, a citizen of Kazakhstan, who since 2013 is serving his sentence in a penal colony in the Samara Region for plotting an assassination attempt on Vladimir Putin, has addressed the Russian President with an appeal to pardon him.

The father of a schoolgirl, who died of dog bites, has filed to the Soviet District Court of Makhachkala a lawsuit against the City Mayoralty and the city housing and communal services administration. The man claims compensation in the amount of 50 million roubles for moral suffering.