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The reason for the mass power blackouts in Makhachkala was the increased electricity consumption because of heat and the use of air conditioning systems, the head of the "Dagenergo" Company, who came to the protesters in the Reduktorny neighbourhood of Makhachkala, and promised to restore the power supply this evening.

The court session on the administrative case on discrediting the Russian Army opened against Mikhail Benyash, a Krasnodar lawyer did not take place. The judge has self-withdrawn because he is running another case against the lawyer.

Oppositionist Alizamin Salaev had been refusing food for four days, after which he stopped the protest against his arrest, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reported. Relatives of Alizamin Salaev have information that he did not stop the hunger strike, his son says.

In their video message to Dagestani leader Sergey Melikov, residents of Irganai and other villages of the Untsukul District asked the republic’s leader to take control of the unresolved issue of compensation for flooded lands and gardens.

Persecution of pacifists in Southern Russia; termination of a high-profile case in South Ossetia against Inal Djabiev; negotiations between the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan amid the parties’ mutual accusations of shelling attacks, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 11-17, 2022, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

More than 2000 people, including children from orphanages and boarding schools, attended a charity performance in Makhachkala dedicated to Eid al-Adha. The audience compared its scenario, in which positive heroes teamed up against villains of Russian and Dagestan fairy tales, with famous Marvel sequels.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has stated that air defence systems are in demand due to the need to introduce new strategic military solutions in Russia in the mountains of Chechnya, on the southern borders of Russia.

Forensic medical specialists from the United States will examine the general health state of former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, carry out a psychiatric examination and make their legal opinion, advocate Shalva Khachapuridze reports.

The "North-Akhmat" regiment under the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) is staffed with the "fighters experienced in military operations in Syria and Ukraine," the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has stated.

A participant in a rally of homophobic groups against the LGBT Week held in Tbilisi on July 2 has died in a Tbilisi hospital.

Khayal Abbasov, a veteran of the Second Karabakh War, received three wounds in battles, but failed to document his disability category. His relatives assert that he lives in difficult conditions, and none of the authorities are interested in his problems.

The searches conducted in the Elbrus District have to do with the sale of resort lands, social network users have suggested and called for checking the land deals concluded in other districts of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

In Chechnya, recruitment is underway into battalions of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD); future fighters are promised salaries of 50,000 roubles or more, the republic's military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) has reported. The recruitment of contractors was announced amid Ramzan Kadyrov's threats with hell to those who would only admit the idea of refusing to go to Ukraine.

After meeting Soso Gogashvili, a detained former deputy head of the Georgia's State Security Service (SSS), Ketevan Khvedeliani, a staff member of the Georgian Ombudsperson, has confirmed that he had external bodily injuries.

Evgeny Bukhantsev, a resident of the Krasnodar Territory, who left Russia for the USA due to fear of criminal prosecution for his pacifist actions, has asked for asylum there.

The Mayoralty of the Azerbaijani capital has found it inappropriate to hold a picket under the pandemic and recommended the organizer, Tofig Yagublu, a member of the coordination centre of the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) and the "Musavat" Party, to send his demands to the government.

Ararat Mirzoyan, the head of the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has pointed out that the OSCE Minsk Group should take part in settling the Karabakh conflict.

Acting from the border area, Armenian militaries subjected to intensive fire the positions of Azerbaijani soldiers stationed in the Kelbadjar District, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

The Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has failed with its promise to ensure the withdrawal of Armenian troops from Nagorno-Karabakh in accordance with the agreements of November 10, 2020, Azerbaijani President, Ilham Aliev, has stated.

Authorities' actions resulted in the fact that the health of film producer Armen Grigoryan had deteriorated, and he died in the courtroom from cardiac arrest, protesters in Yerevan have claimed.