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The Grozny resident, whose kidnapping was reported by the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, accused him, in his video message, of collaborating with the authorities. Social network users have treated this statement as a fake. Rights defenders are sure that the author made his video under pressure.

The ban on direct Russia-Georgia flights resulted in a decrease in the number of Russian tourists, but it was compensated by the increase of tourist inflow from Europe, the Georgia's Association of Entry Tourism has reported. Russian tour operators have reported that they found alternatives to the Georgian direction.

The Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the officials of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Dagestan on the issue of demonstration in support of the arrested journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev. Gadjiev's relatives are not able to visit him in the SIZO (pre-trial prison) for the second month, the journalist's mother said.

Moris Machalikashvili, a nephew of Malkhaz Machalikashvili, is suspected of assaulting policemen during the riots outside the parliament building in Tbilisi.

The plans of Armenian authorities to build a new 150-kilometre road to Nagorno-Karabakh nullify the successes in resolving the conflict, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has stated.

The 28-year-old Khas-Magomed Kadyrov, who earlier worked as an assistant to the head of Chechnya and the head of the Grozny's branch of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has been appointed to the post of Mayor of the city of Argun.

On Friday, July 19, outside the building of Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan, solo pickets were held demanding to stop the criminal prosecution of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik". The pickets found support among passersby and drivers of cars passing by.

Idris Yusupov, an employee of the Dagestani edition "Chernovik" (Draft), has stated that he was detained on Friday during a raid conducted by law enforcers near the "Tangim" mosque in Makhachkala.

Abidat Kurbanalieva met her son Kurban, detained in Moscow, in Chechnya. Law enforcers failed to explain the reasons for his detention, she said.

In Northern Caucasus, divorced women find it difficult to achieve custody over their children if the ex-husband decides to keep them. Relatives can interfere with mother's contacts with children and put pressure on them, the rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have stated after the death of a four-year-old girl from Makhachkala in her stepmother's family.

The state of health of Azad Gasanov, an activist of the "Musavat" Party, who is conducting his hunger strike for the fourth day at the Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison), has deteriorated. He is protesting against the protraction of his trial, which has been on for more than six months, said his advocate.

Positions of the Azerbaijani army in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled 19 times during 24 hours, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reported.

In Tbilisi, despite the ban of the law enforcement bodies, Malkhaz Machalikashvili, the father of a resident of the Pankisi Gorge, killed in a special operation, set up a tent in Rustaveli Avenue.

A TV report about a woman who was begging in Grozny continued a series of exposing stories on the Chechen TV Channel. Residents of the republic condemned the public persecution of the family.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) filed a complaint against the court's decision to sanction a demonstration in support of journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev in Makhachkala.

During their scheduled monitoring, officials of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) monitoring mission found no violations of the ceasefire regime on the troops contact line.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized a violation of the rights of three Azerbaijani activists under the article of "the freedom of association" of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) and obliged Azerbaijan to pay them 4500 euros as compensation of their suffered moral harm.

People in a car with Chechen number plates took Kurban Kurbanaliev from Moscow to Chechnya, relatives are not informed of the reasons for the detention, said Abidat, Kurban's mother in her appeal to Ramzan Kadyrov. Earlier, Chechen law enforcers suspected Kurbanaliev of having links with militants, but stopped persecuting him for absence of corpus delicti.

Georgian law enforcers did not allow Malkhaz Machalikashvili, the father of a Pankisi resident killed in a special operation, to set up a tent in front of the parliament building, explaining that some repair works had been planned in this place.

President Vladimir Putin and investigators know about the extrajudicial execution of 27 residents of Chechnya, but in Russia this case has no prospects, says Igor Kalyapin, a rights defender. Relatives of the persons from the "execution list" fled the country after exposed to pressure by law enforcers, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, a blogger, has informed.