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Sochi has begun reinforcing the embankment in the Imereti Lowland. The structures, which are washed off during every violent storm, are being built for six years, said Natalia Kalinovskaya, the head of the Comradeship of Public Government (known as TOS) "Psou".

Ukrainian mass media have spread information about detention in the Lugansk Region of Tamerlan Enaldiev, the Assistant to the Defence Minister of South Ossetia. In his turn, Valery Yakhnovets, the Minister of Defence, said that the man detained in the Lugansk Region is not his assistant.

The Investigating Department for Chechnya will check the actions of the agents of the Soviet NKVD for their involvement in crimes against humanity in the case of the massacre of civilians committed in February 1944 in the village of Khaibakh, Lev Ponomaryov, the leader of the movement "For Human Rights", said on July 21.

In the case of the attempt on Ararat Dovmalov, the Speaker of the City Duma of Zheleznovodsk, along with the version of hooliganism, other versions are considered, including the professional activities of the politician, said the Investigating Department (ID) for the Stavropol Territory of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Azamat Tazhayakov, a student from Kazakhstan was found guilty by jurymen of a conspiracy and obstructing the justice in the case on the terror act committed during the Boston Marathon.

A video record of the burial of Doku Umarov, who was killed, according to various versions of power agents, during a special operation in late 2013 – early 2014, was posted on July 19 on the websites, which support the militants of Northern Caucasus.

As reported today by the Russia's Ministry of Justice (MoJ), five organizations have been added to the registry of the non-profit organizations (NPOs) - "foreign agents", including the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

Today in the morning, in the Novoselitskoe District of the Stavropol Territory, policemen killed a man who opened fire on law enforcers. The casualty has not been identified yet, reports the press office of the Chief Department (CD) of Russia's MIA for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

As reported today by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), Mubariz Aliev, a resident of the Tartar District of Azerbaijan, was killed by gunfire from the Armenian side near the village of Ashagy Chaily located on the troops contact line.

As reported by a law enforcement source from the Stavropol Territory, last night, an attempt was made on the life of Ararat Dovmalov, the Speaker of the City Duma of the city of Zheleznovodsk. According to the source, the politician received a head injury from the explosion of presumably a grenade near his house.

Today, the prosecutor has asked the court to appoint 18 years in prison for Orkhan Zeinalov, a native of Azerbaijan, accused of killing Yegor Scherbakov, a resident of the Moscow district of Western Biryulyovo.

During the week from July 14 to July 20, 2014, the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus claimed at least one human life. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

International Film Festival "Golden Apricot" in Yerevan; murder of KChR's MP Mukhamed Kunizhev; accusation against journalist Mirkadirov of transferring military secrets to Armenian NGOs, announced byAzerbaijan special services, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 14-20, 2014, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On July 19, five young Ingush girls from families of forced migrants left for the USA, where they will spend three months in American families, said Alikhan Akhilgov, the head of the NGO named "Help Foundation to Earlier Deported Nations". During their stay in America, children will be taught English, computer skills, and taken to excursions.

In the evening on July 20, in the city of Lisichansk, Ukrainian militaries captured 23 Russian citizens, who defended the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic (LPR), said the press service of the President of Ukraine; there are Chechen natives among the detainees.

Ruslan Rakhaev, a former deputy head of the OVD (Interior Division) of the city of Cherkessk, has sent applications to the Investigating Department calling to bring investigators to criminal responsibility. Rakhaev accuses investigators of deliberate concealing the traces of the crime, falsification of proofs, deliberate destruction of exhibits, and other violations of the law.

The participants of the citizens' rally, held on July 19 near the Olympic Park in Sochi, stated that officials failed to fulfil their promises given before the Olympic Games to residents of the Sochi settlement-micro-district Mirny. They said that because of the Olympic facilities built in the Imereti Lowland their houses are regularly flooded.

The Grand Prix of the 11th International Film Festival "Golden Apricot" in Yerevan was awarded to the film "Plemya" (Tribe) by the Ukrainian film director Miroslav Slaboshpitskiy, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed at the press centre of the Festival.

The "Reporters without Borders" (RWB) has expressed its outrage about the extension of the pre-trial arrest of journalist Rauf Mirkadirov. "By keeping Mirkadirov in custody, the politicized judicial system demonstrates that it was ordered to pursue the journalist," says Johann Beer, the RWB's head for Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the head of Ingushetia, said in his interview to Grigory Shvedov, the editor-in-chief of the "Caucasian Knot", that the most complicated situation in the fight against the armed underground is now in the Sunzha District of the republic.