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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.

The prosecutor has asked to sentence Andrei Pivovarov, a former executive director of the "Open Russia"*, to five years in prison and to ban him from being elected to power bodies for eight years, his advocate has informed.

The Strasbourg Court has concluded that the investigating authorities violated the article on the right to life of the Convention on Human Rights by refusing to investigate the murder of writer and publicist Rafik Tagi, and awarded compensation of 12,000 euros to his widow.

The requirement to recruit only Chechen residents into new battalions may lead to the creation of monoethnic military units, and other republics of Northern Caucasus will want to follow this trend, experts interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot” state.

The creation of battalions, which will be part of the Russian Ministry of Defence, will create 1800 jobs in the republic, the leader of Chechnya reports.

The executive authorities of the Astara District of Azerbaijan did not sanction holding of a folklore festival, which was initiated by the municipal council of the Khamosham village, where ethnic Talysh live. The Public Council of the Talysh People of Azerbaijan treat the refusal as a discriminatory policy of the authorities towards the Talysh people.

A court placed under arrest five employees of a drug and alcohol addiction treatment centre located in the Absheron District of Azerbaijan after one of the patients died. According to the investigators’ version, the victim was kept by force at the centre and subjected to torture there.

The striking workers of the metallurgical mills located in Rustavi have denied the company bosses' proposal to make a step-by-step wage indexing by 15%; they intend to go on striking until wages were increased by a third at once.

The court has supported the activists who demanded to make a street section in Makhachkala convenient for wheelchair users.

On July 6, refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh began a sitting picket in front of the Armenian government building demanding an official status. They believe that Armenian authorities ignore their demand for political reasons.

While interrogating relatives of Isabella Evloeva, the editor-in-chief of the "Fortanga" oppositional Ingush outlet, law enforcers tried to find out the whereabouts of Isabella, who is accused within the case of spreading fakes about the Russian Army. Law enforcers intend to constantly question her relatives, while she was engaged in journalism, Ms Evloeva herself has stated.

Veterans of the Karabakh war have filed a lawsuit for libel and insult against Abid Gafarov, an Azerbaijani activist, who posted videos about them on the Internet. Gafarov treats the accusations as unjustified and links the case with his social activities.

The analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have drawn attention to the growth of ethnic aggression in Russia, and criticized authorities for hushing up problems in interethnic relations.

Authorities fail to make due efforts to investigate crimes against sexual minorities and are unable to prevent attacks on them in public places, Baku residents and activists have stated.