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This morning, a road traffic accident involving a minivan and a car has occurred at the 860th kilometre of the federal highway "Kavkaz". As a result of the road traffic accident, two persons were killed and other ten were hospitalized.

In Volgograd, a developer and officials from the "Gosstroinadzor" (Federal Construction Supervision Service) attended a meeting arranged by real estate investors of the residential complex (RC) "Dynasty" and promised to complete the construction in several months. The real estate investors have met the promise with mistrust.

Soldier Samed Alyshov was killed during the shelling in the Karabakh conflict zone, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported today.

The Tbilisi City Court has pronounced the decision to take into custody a teenager suspected of giving false testimony in a resonant case on the murder of two minors in Khorava Street.

Mamed Ibragim, an adviser to the chair of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), went blind in prison to his left eye. He can completely lose his sight without immediate surgery, his relatives reported. The Azerbaijani Ombudsperson has requested the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to provide medical treatment for Mamed Ibragim.

300 residents of Chechnya will be able to make a pilgrimage to Mecca at the expense of the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation, the Chechen authorities reported. Local residents claim the lack of transparency in the distribution of free trips.

Kurban Kurbanaliev, a resident of the Borozdinovskaya village, is suspected of attempting to recruit a young woman into the ranks of Syrian militants, and two of his fellow villagers are suspected of failure to report the above crime, reports the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). On the air of the local TV channel, the detainees pleaded guilty, but their relatives expressed doubts about the reliability of those confessions.

The money for Russian sailors from the "Riroyl-5" ship on the hunger strike at the Azov port has been transferred, but it has not yet come because of the sanctions imposed on Russia, announced the spokesman for the Palmali Group, an owner of the ship.

Residents of the Duisi village located in the Pankisi Gorge have conducted a protest action against the construction of a hydroelectric power plant (HPP) in the gorge. Local residents believe the construction of new HPPs in the Pankisi Gorge will pose a threat to the environment, agriculture, and tourism.

In Dagestan, the killing of policemen in the Kizilyurt District has become the third incident since the beginning of the year, the responsibility for which was claimed by the IS*. Since 2015, it was reported about 15 attacks of IS militants in Dagestan.

The terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS) banned in Russia by the court has claimed the responsibility for shelling a car of the road-and-patrol service (known as DPS) in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, as a result of which two policemen had been killed.

The confiscation of documents from the administration building of the Novolak District located in the dwelling settlement of Novostroy was carried out by law enforcers, who arrived in several service cars accompanied by a military Ural truck; there were people in civilian clothes among them, Novostroy residents told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The court has refused to apply the conditional early relief (CER) to Fuad Akhmedli, a member of the youth committee of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), said his father, promising to file a complaint against this refusal.

On July 21, the "Caucasian Knot" announced the laureates of the annual award set up in memory of the Dagestani journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev.

A car of the DPS (road-and-patrol service) was shelled on the "Kavkaz" Highway in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan; two policemen were shot dead and one was wounded; the attackers managed to escape.

Today, the Moscow City Court has dismissed a complaint about extension of the arrest for Abdusamad Gamidov, the former chair of the Dagestani government, and three other defendants, accused of large-scale embezzlement of funds from the budget.

Today, the defence of Tatul Tamrazyan and Gevorg Iritsyan, members of the unit "Sasna Tsrer" (Daredevils of Sassoun), has convinced the court to release them under recognizance not to leave.

Today, an advocate of Arthur Movsisyan, found guilty of transferring weapons to members of the movement "100th anniversary without regime", has reported that his client has started a hunger strike with a demand to release him from custody. 40 activists supported the Arthur Movsisyan's demand by blocking the entrance to the court building in Yerevan.

Seda Dudurkaeva, a daughter of Asu Dudurkaev, the former chief for the Federal Migration Service (FMS) Department for Chechnya, left for Syria several years ago. She is detained in Istanbul on suspicion of having ties to the terrorist organization, the Turkish media reported.

An athlete from Kabardino-Balkaria has won the gold medal of the Russian Athletics Championship. The silver medal went to Anna Chicherova, a Volgograd high jumper, who served a disqualification for violating anti-doping rules.