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The Azerbaijani militants, who have recorded their oath to the leader of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court, are extremely small in number and have no influence on believers inside the country; while Azerbaijani authorities keep all religious groups under control, Orientalists believe.

The body of the policeman from Novokuznetsk, killed in an attack on a police checkpoint in Chechnya, will be buried tomorrow in his homeland, reports the Department for Kemerovo of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). Investigators are engaged in questioning relatives and friends of the attacker, the Chechen MIA reports.

In Derbent, the health states of both participants of the hunger strike have deteriorated sharply at night. However, the women refused to be hospitalized, reported a female relative of one of the hunger-strikers.

The dispersal of the protest action in Tbilisi, during which dozens of protestors and journalists were injured, was a response to the calls for assaulting the parliament building, stated Kakha Kaladze, Secretary General of the ruling "Georgian Dream" Party. Activist Giorgi Mshveniradze treats the Kakha Kaladze's statement as an attempt of the authorities to relieve themselves of all responsibility for the victims.

The decision of the Russian authorities to ban flights to and from Georgia is an unreasonable measure that will "adversely affect" citizens of both countries, the European Union declares.

On July 3, Armenia started to introduce measures under the Istanbul Convention to combat family violence. The programme includes retraining of lawyers, police officers, and social workers, reports the Council of Europe (CE) Office in Yerevan.

So far, the growth in the number of armed incidents in Kabardino-Balkaria does not mean a real militants' activation, but the conditions for the operation of the armed underground have not disappeared, but the work on militants' adaptation has been curtailed, analysts assert.

The Syrian President, Bashar Hafez al-Assad, has announced a general amnesty, but a Perm court refused to change the verdict and release a native of Chechnya, convicted for participating in the Syrian conflict on the side of militants, from his colony.

The erection of fortifications on the demarcation lines with South Ossetia and Abkhazia is painfully perceived by the Georgian society and supports anti-Russian sentiments in it, as can be seen from the recent protests in Tbilisi, the Amnesty International (AI) has stated.

The practice of mass detentions of acquaintances of a suspected militant is not unique for Chechnya and Northern Caucasus; this is a common method of Russian law enforcers, said Ruslan Kutaev, the head of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has reduced the arrest of the Ingush elder, Ahmed Barakhoev, from three to two months.

The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has sent the case of eight residents of Dagestan, who, according to law enforcers, had prepared a terror act and were killed in a shootout, to the Supreme Court of Chechnya. The casualties' relatives insist on the trial to be held Dagestan, Andrei Sabinin, a lawyer of the "Agora" International Human Rights Group, has stated.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan refused to transfer Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the newspaper "Chernovik" (Draft), to house arrest. The defence believes that the detention of Abdulmumin Gadjiev is not justified.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov claims that the police checkpoint, where policemen were attacked, is of "no strategic" significance. The police checkpoint is located in the forest at a great distance from villages and towns, local residents report.

Zelimkhan Musaev, who was killed while attacking a police checkpoint in Chechnya, was a drug addict, married to a woman whose relatives were militants who had left for Syria, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reported.

Today, activist Sakhib Rustamli has been taken to a police station and warned for criticizing the authorities on social networks and issues of the online opposition TV channel. This has been reported by the activist himself. Members of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) treat the detention of Sakhib Rustamli as a part of the campaign to persecute oppositionists.

Azerbaijani journalist Fuad Abbasov does not intend to return to Russia, even if the 50-year ban on entry into the country is lifted. He promised to protect the rights of Azerbaijanis in Russia through his online "Misra-TV" channel.

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" continues to examine cases of the activists arrested after the March rallies in Magas. The list of Ingush political prisoners will include the names of other oppositionists, if prosecutors do not have convincing evidence against them.

Restrictions on the crossing of the borders of Georgia with Abkhazia and South Ossetia violate the rights of residents of border villages who cannot run their farms and risk being detained for crossing the border, declares the human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI).

The Imams of Ingushetia have asked the Russia's Public Prosecutor General, Yuri Chaika, to check the lawfulness of the searches conducted at the republic's Muftiate and in the house of Mufti Isa Khamkhoev, and of many-hour-long interrogations of religious figures.