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The Board of Judges of the Krasnodar Territory has checked the reports about the expenses for the wedding of the daughter of Judge Elena Khakhaleva and concluded that they "were completely untrue." The actions of the advocate, who had disseminated those reports, should be given a legal evaluation, said Vladimir Kislyak, the Chairman of the Board of Judges.

Adyg people have criticized the statement of film director Kantemir Balagov, according to which he does not consider himself to be a Kabardian, although he is a representative of this nationality.

During the week from July 17 to July 23, 2017, there were no casualties or wounded persons in 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.

Four Dagestani judo wrestler-members of the Russian national team took the second place in the team event at the Surdolympics – competition of deaf athletes.

Russian and foreign human rights organizations try to cause an artificial response to the violation of human rights in Chechnya and ignore actual problems. This was stated by the leader of the Chechen Republic.

An Albanian temple of the early Middle Ages has been found in the village of Tulu in the Balakan District.

After the victory of the "Akhmat" Football Club (FC) over the "Rostov" FC, fans of the Grozny football team reported that they came to the match voluntarily. They did not chant slogans during the game.

The rally against xenophobia, organized by the "European Georgia" Party, went without clashes, although supporters of the "March of the Georgians" tried to disrupt the rally and threw eggs and plastic bottles at the activists.

During a week, participants of the international educational project "Zhyg shlagyum" in Kabardino-Balkaria were indulging in the Circassian culture in the Kabardian language. Madina Khakuasheva, a co-organizer of the project, and expert Naima Neflyasheva expressed the hope that the project would be continued.

Student Anazor Arslanuk left the detention centre for foreign citizens and stateless persons in the Krasnodar Territory and went to Abkhazia. He managed to avoid deportation to Syria due to obtaining the citizenship of Abkhazia. This was reported by his advocate.

Azerbaijani activists and journalists living in Georgia have held an action in honour of the National Press Day. They have demanded to release arrested journalists.

Fuad Gakhramanly, Deputy Chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), Talekh Bagirzade, the leader of the "Muslim Unity", and Abbas Guseinov and Ali Nuriev, two other persons sentenced in the "Nardaran case", are placed to a punishment cell.

They demand to recognize all the persons arrested within the "Sasna Tsrer" case political prisoners and place them into separate cells in the Nubarashen Prison.

The ban of religious organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses by the Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has to do with the increased influence of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), headed by Patriarch Kirill, on the policy of Russian authorities, Lyudmila Alekseeva, the head of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG), is convinced.

Overall, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has fixed over 20,000 ceasefire violations on the contact line in the Karabakh conflict zone since the start of 2017. The statistics was announced by Vagif Dargyakhly, the spokesman of the Azerbaijani MoD.

Last night, during two hours, the Azerbaijani armed forces shelled the village of Barekamavan in the Tavush Region of Armenia. No one was injured, the village head reported.

Magomed Aushev, subjected to torture after his detention by law enforcers, suffers from persistent headaches, his vision has deteriorated sharply, and his family is short of money for his medical treatment in a specialized rehabilitation centre. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by relatives of Magomed Aushev.

On July 21, the Presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan met in Sochi, where they reaffirmed the partnership relations between the two countries and, in particular, discussed the Karabakh conflict.

The court has sentenced a woman from Shali to two years of imprisonment in a colony-settlement for injuring her husband's daughter on a thigh with a hot knife because of dislike. However, the execution of the sentence has been delayed.

In Sukhumi, agents of the State Security Service for Abkhazia have detained a native of Uzbekistan who confessed to be a member of the organization "Muslim Brothers", banned in Russia as a terrorist organization.