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Today, in Makhachkala, passers-by and drivers of cars have expressed their support to participants of solo pickets in defence of arrested Abdulmumin Gadjiev, colleagues of the journalist and activist Salim Khalitov said.

Those convicted in the “Terter case” should be released, and those who tortured them should be brought to justice, said relatives of the prisoners at a rally in Baku.

For the second year, the community of Agavno of the Kashatag District of Nagorno-Karabakh has celebrated the Vardavar holiday. The security of the event was ensured by Russian peacemakers.

Several dozen residents of the Tbilisi Mukhiani district took out to the streets in protest, demanding the cancellation of the construction of five high-rise buildings in place of the park. The protesters assert that this territory is the only green area in the district.

On July 5, at least seven persons in several vehicles all day followed advocates of Zarema Musaeva in Chechnya, the defenders themselves reported. They took the surveillance of law enforcers as a method of pressure and requested to launch an inspection.

After the first detention of Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev, their relatives were also taken to a law enforcement body in Chechnya, where they were tortured, an elder brother of Salekh and Ismail said.

Administrative cases for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces instituted against Anna Shtrigel and Maryana Kanukoeva were brought to courts of Novorossiysk and Chegem.

Persecution of pacifists in the southern regions of Russia; sentence to initiators of a rally against epidemiological restrictions in North Ossetia; protests of Makhachkala residents against blackouts; return of Azerbaijani refugees to Nagorno-Karabakh; hunger strike of an activist in Sukhumi, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 18-24, 2022, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Said-Mukhammad Djumaev, a native of Chechnya, who was sentenced to five years in colony for violence against law enforcers, has filed a complaint.

At the trial of the case of former Nalchik policemen accused of torturing Alexander Knyazev and Valery Levdik, the prosecutor's office requested five and a half years in prison for each of the defendants.

The Mayoralty of Elista, the capital of Kalmykia, has refused to sanction the July 26 rally in defence of the Russian Constitution and the rights of the Oirat-Kalmyk people. Semyon Ateev, an activist, has applied for holding a rally in the territory of the "Seven Days' Pagoda" Complex; the city court has approved the refusal. Semyon has treated the ban as discriminatory, pointing out that other events organized by the authorities used to take place in the territory of the complex.

After a heavy rain, residential houses located in the Lazarevsoye District of Sochi are flooded, communal services are eliminating the consequences, and officials are calculating the damage, local authorities have reported. In Sochi, flooding occurs regularly because of failed storm water drains and non-systematic city development, users of the "VKontakte" social network assert.

In Azerbaijan, journalists are subjected to physical and psychological pressure and criminal prosecution; the situation with media freedom remains critical, human rights defenders have noted in their report.

The administration of beaches in Tuapse broadcasts patriotic audio for tourists through loudspeakers in support of the militaries involved in the special operation in Ukraine, sources report. Forcing people who came to have their rest to listen to such songs is inappropriate, social network commentators have stated.

Adam Shakhidov, the advisor to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, on religious matters, has recorded a video sermon, during which he disclosed the participation of republic's residents in the special operation in Ukraine from the religious viewpoint, Ramzan Kadyrov informed on his Telegram channel.

After a rainstorm, the Muzykalny micro-district in Krasnodar was flooded, while officials and communal services gave no reaction to the calamity, local residents have complained. Other townspeople have noted, in the "VKontakte" social network, that flooding of city neighbourhoods occurs regularly because of the failed storm water draining pipelines.

In one of the kindergartens in the city of Kaspiysk, which was recently commissioned, the ceiling collapsed; and the developer explained this by a draught, according to social networks. Luckily, there were no children in the room, Instagram* and "VKontakte" users have informed.

The commander of a combat post threatened the conscript soldier to report some compromising information to his relatives, if he refuses to shot three his fellow servicemen dead, who had learned about the non-stature relations of the soldier with his commander, investigators have suggested. The conscript has been charged with murder; and the commander – with incitement to murder and sexual violence, the Armenia's Investigating Committee (IC) has informed today.

The construction of a bypass road around Lachin will remove obstacles to the return of this city and the corridor of the same name under Azerbaijan's control, analysts in Baku believe.

On July 22, in Freedom Square in Sukhumi, Djansukh Adleiba, an activist, began his hunger strike demanding lower fuel prices and to prevent the transfer of Abkhaz lands to Russia. Vadim Markholiya, a veteran of the 1992 war, has joined the protest action.