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In Chechnya, tourists must respect the republic's customs, including wearing modest clothes, some users have pointed out in their comments to the Instagram* post containing rules of conduct for visitors to the region. Other commentators have objected that tourists can dress as they please, and besides, locals do not always follow these rules themselves.

The son of Zaur Khanikaev, a victim of the Beslan terror act, who died while awaiting hospitalization to the North-Caucasian Medical Centre, has filed complaints with the investigating committee and the prosecutor's office. Other survivors of the Beslan school attack have also complained about obstacles in receiving the planned medical care.

Elchin Mamed, an Azerbaijani journalist and human rights defender, has stopped his hunger strike in the colony due to a sharp deterioration in his health, his relatives have informed.

The blogger, Adam Aushev, has insulted the Ingush elders, after which the Aushev teip (family clan) abandoned him, Akhmet-Bashir Aushev, the teip elder, has informed.

Today, the Azeri party has stated that in the evening on July 8, Armenian militaries shelled Azerbaijani soldiers' positions stationed in the Kelbadjar District.

Georgian authorities have promised to lower the electoral threshold for parties at the parliamentary elections if the European Union (EU) grants the country the status of an EU candidate. Putting forward an ultimatum looks like an attempt to derail the course towards European integration, the opposition has reacted.

The forced haircutting on a 9-year-old girl is equated to physical violence, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" assert.

The Southern District Military Court has left Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist from the "Chernovik" (Draft) outlet, accused of financing terrorism, in custody until October 28.

Nikol Pashinyan, the Prime Minister, and his team are promoting the Azerbaijani and Turkish agendas to the detriment of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, the participants in the march held in Yerevan have stated.

Inal Djabiev, who died after being interrogated by law enforcers, and Nikolai Tskhovrebov were not involved in the attempt on the life of Igor Naniev, a former head of the South-Ossetian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the prosecutor stated on July 8, demanding to sentence Tskhovrebov to conditional imprisonment for arms trafficking.

Ramzan Kadyrov has repeatedly criticized the President of Ukraine and the filming of the "serial" about Zelensky has become a continuation of the federal trend of making attacks against Ukrainian authorities, although the videos clips with Kadyrov "starring" should be treated mainly as entertainment, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

Wages of Rustavi metallurgical plant employees will gradually increase by the equivalent of 85 US dollars, the wage rate will be increased in July, a trade union representative reports. According to him, the workers have already stopped their strike and resumed work.

Alizamin Salaev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, was placed under arrest for 30 days for failure to obey the police. The activist tried to hold a protest action but was detained, his son said.

Participants of a protest action held in front of the UN office in Yerevan demanded to grant refugee status to people who left the territories that came under the control of Azerbaijan as a result of the 2020 war.

According to a joint study conducted by the Baku Human Rights Club and the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), most of Azerbaijani residents are deprived of normal housing and access to quality medical services because of their low incomes.

The behind-the-scene format of discussing a large investment project for the construction of a dwelling settlement has caused resonance in Abkhazia. Residents demanded not to sell land to foreigners, as they perceived a threat of frauds with investments, because of which their amount could then become a burden on the republic's budget, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have pointed out.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has awarded 15,000 euros in compensation for the suffered material damage and moral harm, as well as for legal expenses, to Alim Khokonov from Kabardino-Balkaria and Khristofor Golovatov from Rostov-on-Don. They were diagnosed with oncological diseases, but they were not provided with medical care in colony, says the ECtHR's decision, posted on its website on July 7.

Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia are among the top 10 regions of Russia, where residents consumed the least amount of antidepressants over the six months of this year.

A court in Rostov-on-Don has found five participants in the 2020 rally in Vladikavkaz guilty of participating in mass riots and sentenced them to terms ranging from three years and ten months to four years and three months of freedom deprivation in a general security colony.

Azerbaijan has shelled the Armenian positions and the road in the direction of the village of Elpin, the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported. In its turn, its Azerbaijani counterpart has announced the shelling of its positions in the Kelbadjar District.