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In Astrakhan, the advance inner-party voting to elect candidates from the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party to the City Duma of Astrakhan was held in the conditions of uncontrolled agitation and exaggeration of the information on the number of voters. This was stated by city residents and participants of the primaries.

Residents of the residential district of Kudepsta in Sochi have blocked the road used by construction vehicles to reach the site of construction of a high-rise building. The local residents claim that the construction violates their right to healthy living environment.

Mikhail Saakashvili, the former Georgian President, has become a citizen of Ukraine. This was reported by MPs of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian "Petro Poroshenko's Block" Party.

The systematic detentions of young people based on their appearance indicate the arbitrariness of authorities in Chechnya, said the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The growth of the number of cases, when residents of Dagestan swear to the "Islamic State" (IS), suggests that the "Imarat Kavkaz" is losing its influence in the region and could eventually join the IS, said the experts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Police has questioned Elchin Mamed, the Chairman of the NGO "Legal Education of Sumgait Youth" and the editor-in-chief of the on-line edition "Yukselish Namine" (In the Name of Revival) in connection with the case on non-return loan of ‘International Bank of Azerbaijan’.

The defender Ruslan Chupanov, who is representing the interests of Kurban Askandarov, the detained Deputy Imam of a Makhachkala mosque, has stated a non-admission to his client for two days.

Chechen mass media have reacted angrily to the appearance of the documentary "The Family", telling about the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov and the issue of human rights violations in the republic. They treat it as an informational attack on Kadyrov, and, by means thereof, on president of Russia.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow has ruled to arrest, until July 22, a resident of Chechnya Deni Mirzoev, who is accused of committing a fatal road accident.

In Azerbaijan, law enforcers have detained Elchin Mamed, the Chairman of the NGO "Legal Education of Sumgait Youth" and the editor-in-chief of the on-line edition "Yukselish Namine" (In the Name of Revival). This was reported by Elchin Gasanov, an assistant of Elchin Mamed.

In the case of the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, investigators have appointed a number of new examinations, including phonographic, forensic psychological, molecular and genetic, and ballistic examinations. The latter is to reveal whether the ammunition found in the house of Zaur Dadaev, a defendant in the case, and the items found at the place of the murder are identical.

In Kalmykia, two policemen are accused of abuse of power with the use of violence against a person detained for an administrative offence. The case has been brought to the court.

In Tbilisi, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a resident of the Pankisi Gorge, who was involved in the second Chechen campaign, was hospitalized with gunshot wounds got as a result of an attempt on him.

Magomed Suleimanov, also well-known as Abu Usman of Gimry, has assumed his duties as the Amir of the "Imarat Kavkaz", and his election will be soon formally announced. This was reported by an informed source with reference to a relative of Magomed Suleimanov.

The international human rights organization "Freedom House" has expressed concern about the health status of Intigam Aliev, a rights defender arrested in Azerbaijan, and urged the authorities to immediately provide him with the necessary medical care.

Arms were planted on Kurban Askandarov, Deputy Imam of a Makhachkala mosque, his mother Malikat wrote in her application filed today to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

The Sochi City Assembly has approved changes to the City Charter, according to which in 2019 the Mayor will be elected not by residents but local deputies. The new city boss will be named City Manager.

The Krasnodar Regional Court has upheld the judgement of the Krasnoarmeiskiy District Court, which sentenced the local activist Darya Polyudova to 10 days of administrative arrest for disseminating leaflets.

Veniamin Kondratiev, the Acting Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, is the only leader of Southern Russia marked as "Excellent" in the rating of "survivability", compiled on the basis of experts' estimates by the "Petersburg Politics" Foundation and the "Minchenko Consulting" Holding. According to the rating, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov is loosing his position in the rating.

The participants of the rally-march against increase of electricity tariffs in Yerevan are sure that the Commission for Regulating Public Services will increase the tariffs not by 17 drams, as requested by the "Armenian Power Grids", but by a little smaller amount, in order not to trigger mass protests.