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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.

Residents of the village of Vank in Nagorno-Karabakh have collected 1005 signatures to the petition demanding an immediate release from custody in Moscow of Levon Airapetyan, one of the most influential and wealthy members of the Armenian Diaspora in Russia.

In the opinion of some of the authors of the economic programme of the coalition "Georgian Dream" Demur Giorkhelidze and a co-chair of the NGO "Free Zone" Gela Vasadze, there are no grounds to expect a sharp rise in the Georgia's agricultural sector as a result of signing and ratifying the Agreement with the European Union (EU).

On Saturday, July 19, an improvised explosive device (IED) was found in central Karabulak; it was neutralized by sappers. Prior doing it, they evacuated residents of neighbouring houses, the Ingush MIA reports.

On July 18, Oksana Toropova, a figurant in the case of beating a court marshal, forced the local UFSIN (Department of Russian Penitentiary Service) employees to take off her electronic bracelet.

In the city of Imishli, in south-western Azerbaijan, an attack was committed on Makhbub Zulfugarly, a local activist of the "Kura" Society.

During the spring of 2014, in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, employees of law enforcement bodies suffered fewer losses than in the winter of 2013-2014, note authors of the quarterly information-analytical bulletin prepared by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

Despite the Azerbaijan's stronger measures to combat corruption, it is necessary to take measures to increase the transparency of the bodies of power, says the report of the Transparency Azerbaijan "Evaluation of National Transparency System: Azerbaijan-2014", which was presented on July 18 in Baku.

The head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov has posted a photo of Doku Umarov's body, who was killed, according to various versions of power agents, in a special operation in the period from late 2013 – early 2014, in his profile on the Instagram social network.

A charitable action of distributing food parcels to motorists moving along the Federal Highway "Kavkaz" for breaking the fasting after the last days of Ramadan was launched on July 18 at the GIBDD (traffic police) post in Ingushetia, said Beslan Tsechoev, an advisor to the head of the republic.

Law enforcement bodies are searching for seven residents of the village of Maidanskoe, Untsukul District of Dagestan. They are suspected of aiding IAF members, said Imamutdin Kamilov, the deputy village head.

On Friday, July 18, the policeman Petros Airapetyan, who is considered to be the third victim in the case of the protesters on November 5, 2013, testified to the court. In the course of the court session, the defendants and their advocates stated that Airapetyan testimony was false, and that the case was politically motivated.

Since the advocates have filed an appeal against the decision of the preliminary session of the Baku Court of Appeal (CoA), the consideration of another appeal complaint, lodged by activists of the "Nida" movement, has been indefinitely postponed.

The activists who help the refugees from Syria in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) complain about poor living conditions of the Syrian Circassians, who were accommodated in the sanatorium "Terek". Activists are holding the campaign "Blankets-pillows" trying to provide Syrian Circassians at least with the bedding.

The four villagers of Maidanskoe, Untsukul District of Dagestan, killed during the counterterrorist operation (CTO) have been buried.

As reported by a source from the Investigating Department (ID) for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the minor girl from the Rutul District of Dagestan, who was supposedly raped by 12 persons, cannot be found. According to the source, nobody has been detained so far; a pre-inquiry check is underway.

The Krasnodar Territorial Court (KTC) has considered the appeal lodged by the Prosecutor of the Adler District of Sochi on the verdict passed in the case of beating up Pavel Solovyov, a builder of the Olympic facilities.

In the Krasnodar Territory, a female advocate is suspected of a fraud amounting to 48.5 million roubles, said the press service of the Investigating Department (ID) for the Krasnodar Territory of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), without specifying the suspect's name.

As reported by the Russian FSB's Frontier Department for the Rostov Region, five unexploded artillery shells may still be present in the territory of the Kuibyshev District of the Rostov Region, which flew from the Ukrainian territory during the recent armed clashes.