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The verdict to the last group of Armenian soldiers detained in December 2020 in the vicinity of Gadrut was passed on July 23 by the Baku Court of Grave Crimes. Thirteen soldiers were found guilty of illegal border crossing and arms trafficking.

Sonya Cherkesova, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, has complained that she had not seen her son for about five years; Aslan is in a colony in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

One of the three Armenian soldiers wounded in the shootout in the Gegarkunik Region is in grave condition, investigators have informed.

The city of Izberbash continues facing problems with water supplies; sometimes water runs from taps, but in very scanty quantities, townspeople complain.

A drone that tried to fly into the territory of Armenia was liquidated on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

Azerbaijani authorities have violated the prohibition of torture and the right of Arthur Badalyan, an Armenian soldier, to freedom and personal immunity during his captivity, and must pay him 30,000 euros in compensation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has stated.

A group of human rights defenders from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has appealed to the region head, Kazbek Kokov, with a demand to take personal control over the inquiry into the case of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in Nalchik and Baksan, as a result of which five casualties were declared militants.

After the death of an Azerbaijani serviceman and the wounding of three Armenian soldiers, shootouts on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border continue.

Armenian law enforcers have initiated 78 criminal cases related to violations at the June 20 early parliamentary elections. A total of 83 persons are charged under these criminal cases, the country's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has informed.

Imams and mosque visitors have reacted with understanding to the cancellation of Friday namazes (prayers) in Adygea; today, all the republic's mosques were closed. Some believers have offered to open mosques for those who have been vaccinated against coronavirus.

Eduard Dubakov, a Russian sentenced by a court in Baku to 10 years in prison, has asked about his chances to lodge an appeal, his advocate said. Russia and Azerbaijan have an extradition agreement, which allows extraditing a convict to his homeland; Dubakov can also ask the President of Azerbaijan for a pardon, lawyers have noted.

Blogger Said-Khusein Magomadov explains his rejection of the protection offered by the Austrian police by inconveniences at work, but he does not feel safe. Said-Khusein Magomadov called the failed assassination on him a political order of the Chechen authorities.

During a shelling attack from the Armenian side on positions in the Kelbadjar district, a warrant officer of the Azerbaijani army was killed, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports today. The Armenian Ministry of Defence reported about three wounded soldiers and claimed that the Armenian side was not involved in the death of the Azerbaijani soldier.

Relatives of Abbas Khamkhoev, a detained resident of Ingushetia, do not trust the version of the law enforcement bodies, according to which he was allegedly storing an explosive device in a house with his own minor children. After the search at the house and detention of Abbas Khamkhoev, the family members were not aware about his whereabouts for 24 hours and filed a complaint to the police about the kidnapping, an advocate reports.

The “Aiisa” Company won in the Strasbourg Court a case on condoms, the packaging of which angered Orthodox believers. When Georgian courts banned the production of those condoms, they violated the right to freedom of expression, the European Court of Human Rights ruled.

Cooperation with an undesirable organization, in which Andrei Pivovarov is accused, is a crime of moderate gravity, and the evidence of guilt was presented with violations, advocates claim in a complaint about the arrest of a politician who is being kept at a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Krasnodar.

For a long time, residents of many dwelling settlements of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) have failed to draw authorities' attention to the absence of gas supplies to their houses, while the active reaction of Rashid Temrezov to the complaint of a female resident of Ust-Djeguta to the president has to do with the upcoming election of the head of the region, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Law enforcer have interrogated Tatiana Glinberg, the former coordinator of Navalny's office* in Stavropol, and then released her. Her persecution fits into the trend of systematic expelling of Navalny's supporters from Russia, the local activists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The compulsory vaccination introduced in Dagestan for workers in some spheres will have a bad effect on the vaccination campaign as a whole, says Ziyautdin Uvaisov, the head of the human rights organization "Patient's Monitor". "This initiative is discrediting the very vaccination procedure," he told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The Tbilisi City Court has arrested two more suspects of attacking journalists. Media professionals held another protest action at the Georgian Parliament demanding to punish the organizers and participants of the violence.