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A number of human rights activists and politicians have sent an appeal to Gennady Kornienko, Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) of the Russian Federation about inadmissibility of baiting of the Krasnodar ecologist Evgeny Vitishko in Colony-Settlement No. 2 of the Tambov Region.

Five years after the murder of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", an action "Flowers for Natalia" was held in Moscow, organized by activists of the human rights organization Amnesty International (AI).

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found no violation in the case of Izet Ashlarba, a citizen of Georgia, who was convicted for links with the organized crime.

In Azerbaijan, the arrest of journalist Rauf Mirkadirov, accused of treason, has been extended by other four months. This decision was made by the Nasimi District Court of Baku in satisfaction of the petition lodged by the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan.

The advocates of the dismissed Makhachkala Mayor Said Amirov and his nephew Yusup Djaparov, convicted on charges of planning a terror act, have filed a complaint against the verdict, said Vladimir Postanyuk, the head of the defence group.

Three residents of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic are accused of involvement in a criminal grouping engaged in cashing the maternity capital in North Ossetia and KBR, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has reported.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has completed the judicial investigation into the murder of Yegor Scherbakov, a resident of the Moscow district of Biryulyovo; the parties' debates are scheduled for July 21.

According to investigators, the preliminary inquiry into the case of Emil Mamedov, the head of the NGO "Democracy Promotion", acting in the country's south, is over; and in the near future the case will go to court.

As reported by the Investigating Department (ID) for Chechnya of the ICRF, two residents of the village of Katar-Yurt, Achkhoy-Martan District of Chechnya, are suspected of aiding members of illegal armed formations (IAFs).

The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Abkhazia has registered four candidates for the early presidential election scheduled for August 24. The former Deputy Prime Minister Beslan Eshba was denied registration – in the opinion of the linguistic commission, he is not fluent enough in the official state language.

Exactly five years have expired since the kidnapping and death in Chechnya in 2009 of Natalya Estemirova, an employee of the Grozny representative office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

In south-east of Chechnya, in the foothill Shali District, law enforcers detained a 39-year-old local resident, on whom cartridges to automatic firearms were found during personal search.

As reported by the Investigating Department (ID) for the Krasnodar Territory of the ICRF, the participants of the conflict, during which Rasul Gadjimagomedov, a native of Dagestan and a member of the Russian youth boxing national team, was mortally wounded, have been identified.

The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) has recognized Ruslan Kutaev, President of the Assembly of Peoples of the Caucasus, a "prisoner of conscience". Furthermore, the AI has asked its supporters around the world to call on the Russian authorities to immediately release Ruslan Kutaev.

On Monday, in Dagestan, law enforcers searched three houses in the village of Gimry. The village has been unblocked. This was reported by local residents.

On July 2, Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the leader of Ingushetia, met refugees in Karabulak. After the meeting, he has ordered to dismiss from office an official from the city administration for his ill-treatment of internally displaced persons (IDPs).

In Azerbaijan, Gasan Guseinli, the head of the non-governmental organization (NGO) named "Educative Centre 'Intellectual Citizen'", has been sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment.

In the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, during the week from July 7 to July 13, 2014, at least 17 persons suffered, including 12 people killed and at least five wounded. These are the results of the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Death of Eduard Shevardnadze and the second round of municipal elections in Georgia; death of Sergey Tsapok convicted for "Kuschevskaya massacre" in SIZO in Krasnodar; sentencing of Chechen activist who criticized Kadyrov; a guilty verdict in the case of Said Amirov, ex-Mayor of Makhachkala; echo of Ukrainian warfare in Rostov Region, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 7-13, 2014, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Once again, Yerevan hosts the international festival "Golden Apricot". The launched event has a positive impact on the Armenian cinematography. This opinion has been expressed by Arutyun Khachatryan, a founder of the cinema forum.