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A criminal case of an attack on Rustam Laipanov, wounded by unidentified people in Karachay-Cherkessia, was instituted against the background of a rally held by the victim's relatives who threatened the authorities of the republic to arrange mass protests.

A slope at the "Volgograd Arena" Stadium was subjected to erosion due to shortages of storm sewage system, reported Sergey Kamin, the director of the project "Construction of Stadium in Volgograd". Engineers should have calculated the reserve capacities of a storm sewage system, believes Igor Shkopinsky, the chairman of the board for the "Rosgrazhdanproekt" design and survey institute.

The condition of two out of six victims of an explosion at the Mindeli mine in Tkibuli is assessed by doctors as severe, while the condition of the rest is not a cause for concern.

Video blogger Ilya Davydov (Maddison) has been sentenced to conditional sentence under Article 282 for the video "Joke about the Koran". Earlier, the scandalous video was recognized as an extremist material by the decision of the Zavodskoy District Court of Grozny.

In Nalchik, activists tried to get a sanction to hold on July 17 a rally and a picket against a bill on the voluntary study of national languages. However, the city authorities dismissed both notifications for formal reasons.

Law enforcers have seized all the copies of the moloko+ almanac during its presentation in Krasnodar.

The main prosecution witness in Oyub Titiev's case, a drug addict himself, appeared on the air of a Chechen TV channel. However, local residents assert that the story with accusations against Titiev and his colleagues from the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" was unconvincing.

Before the meeting of the US and Russian Presidents in Helsinki, activists of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) called on Donald Trump to condemn the persecution of gays in Chechnya during his conversation with Vladimir Putin.

Ramazan Aliev, the former deputy Prime Minister of Dagestan, has been charged with abuse of authority, and his arrest has been extended up to two months, reports a source from the Dagestani law enforcement bodies.

The Georgian government has pronounced the decision to suspend the operation of the Mindeli Mine in Tkibuli. Today, according to the preliminary version voiced by investigators, a methane explosion has occurred and four persons have been killed. The trade unions believe the authorities pronounced the decision to stop the mine operation too late.

During the week of July 9-15, 2018, no one fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has launched an investigation into an accident at the Mindeli mine, as a result of which four persons have been killed and six others have been injured today.

In the village of Vtoroy Lesken, residents of Kumakhov Street have disseminated a video appeal with a complaint about the long absence of water supply. According to the villagers, they are willing to pay for the necessary work to restore the water supply, but the local authorities ignore their proposal.

The participation of Muslim teams, namely, of the national teams of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, in the FIFA World Cup aroused no surge of interest in Northern Caucasus, even taking into account the accommodation of the Egyptian team in Chechnya. This opinion was voiced by the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

On the ninth anniversary of the death of Natalia Estemirova, a member of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Chechnya, rights defenders have declared their willingness to continue fighting to release their colleague Oyub Titiev, accused of drug possession.

On July 15, at the border, according to the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD), Azerbaijani soldiers detained a member of an Armenian reconnaissance and sabotage grouping, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reported.

About 50 women from Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Adygea, and other regions of Russia appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to return their daughters and grandchildren from Iraqi prisons.

Residents of the highland region of Racha are cut off from the outside world after the river high water after downpours washed off the bridge, said Archil Djaparidze, the governor of the Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti Region.

Public humiliations of Ramzan Kadyrov's critics and announcement of the persons turning to the head of Chechnya to be crazy make one doubt the mental disorder of the local resident, who has declared vegetables grown in the republic as harmful. This is the opinion of experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

A rally against the bill on the voluntary study of native languages was held in Elista, the capital of Kalmykia, in parallel with the sports and entertainment events arranged by the Mayoralty in the same place. The participants of the rally treated the authorities' actions as an attempt to disrupt the rally.