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People support Alexei Navalny mainly for his struggle against corruption. This opinion was voiced by volunteers of Alexei Navalny's offices in five southern cities of Russian Federation. The opponents of Alexei Navalny criticize involvement of schoolchildren in the protests and talk about the "artificial nature" for the oppositionist's political struggle.

Yuri Golder, a member of the Volgograd Human Rights Council (HRC), has been detained on suspicion of commercial bribery, and investigators prepare a request for his detention, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.

Each of three residents of the village of Yanikoi, whose property was damaged in a counterterrorist operation (CTO), will receive 50,000 roubles. This was reported by Khasan Appoev, the deputy head of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE).

Reports of the Middle Eastern and European media about Chechen female suicide bombers and homeless children confirm the assumption of a source from the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) about the large number of Chechen children and women in the conflict zone.

The Economy Ministry of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has initiated bus tourist trips over historical and architectural sights. Over five days, more than 200 people took part in the excursions, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Materials of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" about 13 residents of Chechnya, who disappeared after being detained by law enforcers, were handed over to Tatiana Moskalkova, Human Rights Commissioner under the President of the Russian Federation, and members of the Presidential Human Rights Council.

Circassian activist Andzor Kabard believes that residents of Kabardino-Balkaria will unlikely forget film director Kantemir Balagov saying that he does not consider himself to be a Kabardian. Circassians feel indignation about the film director's attempt to assess the cultural baggage of the people, said Asker Sokht, the deputy chairman of the "Adyge Khase".

In Nazran, an unsanctioned rally against migration was held. The action was dispersed by law enforcers. The Ingush Security Council addressed residents of the republic with a request not to take part in the action. Users of social networks wrote different opinions concerning the action.

The house in Sochi built in 1908, inhabited by the Beletsky family, has become completely unfit for residence and threatens to collapse.

Blogger Alexander Lapshin, convicted of illegally crossing the Azerbaijani border, has refused to appeal against the verdict passed by the Baku court and decided to ask for extradition to Israel, his advocate reports.

The agreement on the Russian-Abkhazian information and coordination centre (ICC) for law enforcement agencies, ratified today by the Abkhazian Parliament, is proposed to be supplemented. This was reported by Aslan Bzhaniya, the co-chairman of the Bloc of Opposition Forces. Opponents of the ICC called for protests in front of the Abkhazian Parliament; however, no protests took place.

The salary debts to workers of the Makhachkala "Aviaagregat" Factory make 2.7 million roubles. The factory boss has been fined, the Dagestan Prosecutor's Office reports.

The provision of inaccurate information in order to obtain a Ukrainian passport was mentioned as the reason for depriving Mikhail Saakashvili of his Ukrainian citizenship.

Temur Kobaliya, the leader of the NGO "NKO-TV", has claimed the violation of the rights of Volgograd journalist Alexander Batmanov, who on June 24 jumped out of a window of the police station.

Tumso Abdurakhmanov, a native of Grozny, put in Russia on the wanted list, runs the risk of being extradited to his homeland despite a request to provide him with political refuge in Georgia. This opinion was voiced by human rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina.

According to forensic experts, Manouk Simonyan, the disappeared adviser to the Governor of the Armavir Region of Armenia, was killed several days ago.

During the European Junior Freestyle Wrestling Championship, Alik Shebzukhov, an athlete from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), has won the first place in the weight category of up to 85 kilograms.

Armenia will receive financial assistance from the United States to support Syrian refugees. An appropriate law was adopted by the House Committee on Appropriations Committee of the United States House of Representatives.

In the Prokhladnensky District Court, two witnesses testified at the trial in the case against Arkady Akopyan, the former chief of the local organization of Jehovah's Witnesses (banned in Russia). They said that they heard Arkady Akopyan delivering an extremist speech.

The film "House of Others", a debut work by director Rusudan Glurdjidze, was awarded prizes at the film festival held in the Croatian city of Pula. The film described a story of two families during the civil war in Georgia.