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The conflict of the head of Dagestan Ramazan Abdulatipov and the former Acting Mayor of Makhachkala Magomed Suleimanov has brought no serious losses to either party, said the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". They saw here the authorities' intention to put a person without ambitions to the post of the Mayor.

The work of the employees of the Committee against Torture (CaT) and the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) in Northern Caucasus will continue, said rights defenders.

On July 10, the Sovietskiy District Court of Makhachkala found Ibadullo Nabotov, a budun (employee) of the mosque situated in Hungarian Warriors Street of illegal possession of weapons.

On July 10, Russian border guards set up information banners on the border with South Ossetia, by capturing part of Georgian territory near the Baku-Supsa pipeline, says a statement by the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).

On July 9, at the trial of the former Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov, Abdulmajid Akhmedov, one of the defendants, said that he was tortured after detention and during the investigation.

Rasul M., born in 1970, a resident of the village of Novoe Solkusheno, Naur District of Chechnya, who was considered kidnapped, has returned home.

Chechnya is holding large-scale religious events to mark the birthday of Kunta-haji Kishiev, one of the most revered saints in the republic.

The political experts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", believe that Vasily Golubev, the current acting head of the region, is the undisputed leader at the upcoming election for governor of the Rostov Region.

On July 10, a court in Azerbaijan satisfied the petition of the Bar Association asking to exclude the lawyer Khalid Bagirov from the Bar. The lawyer himself told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about it.

Readers of the "Caucasian Knot" have finished voting at the first stage of the contest "Hero of the Caucasus-2014" and elected the first among equals out of the candidates representing Southern Caucasus. The winner of the contest is the 47-year-old Artak Kirakosyan from Armenia, who held a study on security in the border villages, which are exposed to fire.

Chechen law enforcers have arrested a resident of the Chechen city of Urus-Martan, who deported from Turkey after being detained on the border with Syria. According to the spokesman of the Investigating Department for Chechnya, the arrested man was in the same group with the earlier detained Muslim Akhmaev.

The ecologist Vladimir Kimaev, who was released today in Adler (district of Sochi) after his administrative arrest, has begun preparing, together with Anna Gritsevich, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, a number of applications demanding to bring policemen to justice.

Today in Baku, a group of believers has attempted to hold an anti-Israeli protest, by dating it to the so-called "Quds Day". Police stopped the action and detained some of its participants.

The application of the brother of Ali Aliev, who was killed in Ingushetia together with his wife Leyla, was sent by the republic's Prosecutor's Office sent to the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for a check, the duration of which is prescribed as 30 days, that is, until August 7.

On July 9, David Sanasaryan, who in the evening stopped his hunger strike at the request of his colleagues, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the police pursued members of the coordination group and their family members.

Experts are sceptical about the possibility of the return of the militants from Northern Caucasus fighting in Syria to their homeland after their oath to the new leader of the "Imarat Kavkaz".

France will violate the rights of a resident of Chechnya, whom Russia requests to extradite, if it agrees to deport him to his homeland. This was stated by the decision pronounced by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

The Moscow OMON (riot police) has conducted a raid to the restaurant "Vesely Babai". As a result, visitors of the restaurant, mostly natives of Chechnya, were detained. No charges were filed against anyone of them. Staff members of the restaurant complained about rude actions of the law enforcers. The OMON chiefs reject the accusations.

15 families residing in the village of Kepsha of Sochi will be resettled in other localities. Over the past six months, Kepsha villagers were evacuated seven times because of introduction of emergency regime.

Murat Karaketov, the former chief of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ust-Djeguta ROVD (District Interior Division), and two of his employees tried to "hush up" the case of causing grievous bodily harm to detained Murat Borlakov that resulted in his death. This was told at the court session by a friend of the victim.