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The Dagestani Prosecutor's Office has initiated an inspection of social networks in connection with the conflict in the village of Leninaul. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by an official from the Prosecutor's Office. "At present, there are no materials available, since the inspection began recently," said the official.

Elena Khakhaleva, a judge from Krasnodar, treats as ordered the resonance caused by reports of multimillion-dollar expenses for her daughter's wedding party. The judge associates the scandal with her refusal to pronounce an unlawful judgment.

The Chechen Ministry for National Policy, External Relations, Press and Information has concluded a cooperation agreement with the "VisitCaucasus" Foundation to form a positive public opinion on Chechnya.

In the Tselinny District of Kalmykia, a rare Buddhist monument has been opened. It is the Kalachakra Stupa. In total, there are about ten such stupas in the world.

Gezyal Bairamly, Deputy Chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), who is kept under arrest at SIZO (pre-trial prison) on charges of smuggling, is hardly walking around, because of an aggravation of her chronic illness. She does not receive the necessary treatment, said her advocate.

Lom-Ali Elbiev, a former director of the Grozny Municipal Unitary Enterprise told rights defenders that he was tortured after being accused of embezzling budget funds. Rights defenders have asked the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to check the man's statement; however, so far, law enforcement bodies have not responded to the appeal.

At today's session, the Supreme Court (SC) of Russia has ruled to reject the appeal complaint of "Jehovah's Witnesses". The decision to liquidate all the organization thereof has came into force.

Today, Baku has hosted an action in memory of Elmar Guseinov, the editor-in-chief of the magazine "Monitor", timed to his 50th birthday. According to participants of the action, the Azerbaijani authorities have left unpunished the killers and the persons who ordered the Elmar Guseinov's murder.

All the expenses for the daughter's wedding were born by her father, the former husband of Elena Khakhaleva, a judge of the Krasnodar Territorial Court, the judge herself has stated in response to reports of the mismatch of her incomes with the costs of the wedding celebrations.

Tumsu Abdurakhmanov, a native of Grozny, put in Russia on the federal wanted list, has reported about his detention in Tbilisi. The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has not confirmed the information.

Khikmet Gadjiev, the official spokesman for the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), has called the presidential election in Nagorno-Karabakh scheduled for July 19 one more political provocation. According to Khikmet Gadjiev, the Baku authorities treat the above election in Nagorno-Karabakh as a violation of norms and principles of the international law.

Aminat Akueva, a resident of Chechnya, who left for Syria several years ago and was put on the international wanted list, was detained by Interpol. She stays in Berlin, and the Chechen law enforcement agencies expect her to be extradited. This was reported by the law enforcement agencies of the Chechen Republic. Relatives of the detained woman deny her involvement in militants' ranks.

Today, the General Prosecutor's Office of Abkhazia has reported that as a result of the operational and search activities, law enforcers have identified the persons who committed a robbery attack on tourists in the Primorskoe village in the Gudauta District on July 11. The names of the suspects have been disclosed.

Rebecca Harms, the chair of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, an MP of the European Parliament, visited in prison Mustafa Emre Çabuk, a citizen of Turkey, detained in Georgia and accused by the Turkish authorities of aiding and abetting terrorism. After the visit, the MEP addressed the Georgian authorities with an appeal not to extradite him to Turkey.

Users of social networks have been engaged in a broad discussion of the information reporting that Elena Khakhaleva, a judge of the Krasnodar Regional Court, spent two million US dollars for her daughter's wedding party.

After the decision of the Supreme Court (SC) to eliminate 396 religious organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia as extremist, believers from the regions of Southern Russia, questioned by the "Caucasian Knot", complained about the sharp increase in pressure on members of their communities.

During the week of July 10-16, 2017, one person was killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Agents of the Abkhazian State Security Service have detained the second man suspected of an attack on Russian tourists and a murder of one of them.

Leyla Mustafaeva, the wife of Azerbaijani journalist Afghan Mukhtarly, has handed over to the Georgian police the photos of three persons who watched her husband prior to his kidnapping.

In Dagestan, prevention of abortions would have allowed avoiding a decline in the birth rate, marked in the republic in recent years. This was declared by organizers of the rally in Makhachkala.