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Participants of a discussion at the Yerevan Media Centre Public Journalism Club say that prison conditions and problems with medical care cause the deterioration in the prisoners’ health state. The topic of discussion was the death of film producer Armen Grigoryan.

For a month, there has been no information about the whereabouts of the Salekh Magamadov, a convicted native of Chechnya, his advocate Alexei Nemov reports.

More than 20 people were detained at a protest rally, the participants of which demanded the opening of land borders, the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent reported from the scene. Meantime, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan assured there were no detainees, and people “were simply removed from the territory.”

The issue of Georgia’s integration into NATO directly depends on the implementation by the authorities of the country of the conditions developed by the European Union (EU). The North Atlantic Alliance includes democratic countries, and not only compliance in the field of security and defence is important for a country to become a NATO member, Georgian experts believe.

By his statement about the formation of three Chechen battalions and a special forces regiment amid one or two units in other regions, Ramzan Kadyrov demonstrates his loyalty to Putin, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have pointed out.

A total of 1357 out of 1457 internally displaced persons (IDPs, or forced migrants) have expressed their desire to return to the village of Agaly in the Zangilan District, which, following the results of the 2020 autumn war, came under Azerbaijan's control. At the first stage, it is planned to move 41 families; ten families have already done it.

Ten years in prison, appointed by the court to Vadim Cheldiev, an opera singer from North Ossetia, has outraged social network users. This sentence is unusually severe; it aims at intimidating other people who want to express their protest, users have emphasized.

At the rehab (rehabilitation centre for drug addicts), where Magomed Askhabov, a resident of Dagestan, ended up, patients were forced to sign agreements; and they were made volunteers, the journalist, Svetlana Anokhina, has stated. The work of rehabs is practically not controlled; such institutions are not required to have licenses, the lawyer, Osip Drozdovsky, has noted.

This March, a total of 300 servicemen from Buynaksk left Ukraine without permission; in Dagestan they were met as deserters. Some of them cancelled their contracts, others went back to Ukraine, The Moscow Times outlet has reported.

Four law enforcers from Chechnya took part in the abduction of Zarema Musaeva, Ibragim Yangulbaev said, revealing their names. His brother, Abubakar Yangulbaev, entered into a public dialogue with one of these law enforcers when the latter declared that he was "ready for any form of duel."

At their action held near the UN office in Yerevan, opposition supporters condemned the practice of criminal prosecution of oppositionists and demanded to release political prisoners.

Today, Armen Grigoryan, the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia, has announced that the Armenian troops will be withdrawn from Nagorno-Karabakh by September and that the conscription of Karabakh residents to the Defence Army of the unrecognized republic will be continued.

Today, a court has ruled that Sochi resident Pyotr Parpulov, sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment in a case on high treason, will be released. Pyotr Parpulov suffers from an oncological disease, and he needs hospitalization, his daughter reports.

There are no precedents in Russia when lawsuits for the reinstatement of fighters of the National Guard of Russia who refused to participate in the special military operation in Ukraine are granted, emphasize lawyers interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot”.

On July 18, law enforcers brought to a police department eleven protesters from the Reduktorny settlement of Makhachkala, who protested against frequent blackouts. A protocol for petty hooliganism was drawn up against each detainee, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.

The Rostov Regional Court found Vadim Cheldiev, an opera singer from North Ossetia, guilty of inciting extremism and sentenced him to 10 years of imprisonment.

Bidzina Ivanishvili, a Georgian oligarch, has managed to export his huge capitals from Russia, and in exchange for this he could take on the commitment to promote the pro-Russian agenda in Georgia. However, authorities of the European Union (EU) have toughened their position towards reducing Ivanishvili's influence on the decisions of Georgian authorities; and the ruling "Georgian Dream" Party can only use the "deoligarchization" in order to increase its ratings before the 2024 parliamentary elections, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

The court has decided to release Pyotr Parpulov, a resident of Sochi, due to his grave disease, but the prosecutor has challenged this ruling.

In the first half of this year, as a result of violating the ceasefire regime, nine military servicemen of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh perished, while during the same period of 2021, there were only three casualties, human rights defenders have informed. On the contrary, the non-combat losses decreased by five people.

A solo picket in support of the journalist, Abdulmumin Gadjiev, was held in central Makhachkala by Salim Khalitov. According to Salim, law enforcers tried in every possible way to force him to come to the police station and even informed him about the allegedly available information that he wanted to jump under a car during the picket.