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According to video records posted on YouTube, residents of the village of Karagas of the Nogai District in Dagestan beat authors of an obscene video appeal to Ramazan Abdulatipov and forced them to bring the apologies. The rural jamaat has also apologized to the leader of the republic.

According to the leader of Chechnya, in the case on the Boris Nemtsov' murder, the verdict to the defendants has been pronounced with dubious evidence of their guilt and looks "strange." The sentenced men may be sent to serve their sentence in Chechnya and released. This fear was voiced by human rights defender Lyudmila Alekseeva.

The "Russian LGBT Network" has released the statistics of appeals to its hotline, open to help people subjected to pressure and persecution in Northern Caucasus because of their sexual orientation. During 3.5 months from the start of the action, 130 people have appealed for help, and 60 of them were evacuated.

Idris Yusupov, a detained Dagestani journalist, has been released from the Sovietsky ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala.

The man said that an operative criminal inquiry agent tried to beat a confession out of him at the police station. The policeman is suspected of exceeding his official powers.

Armenia has toughened its positions on the settlement of the Karabakh conflict, Stepan Safaryan, a political analyst, have stated. In the opinion of his colleagues, Ruben Megrabyan and Ara Papyan, the mediators are trying to keep the situation in the conflict zone under control.

The Vice-President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed an agreement on the allocation of the Georgia's second half of the concessional loan for a total of half a billion euros for the project aimed to improve the country's motorways.

Alavdin Gardaloev, the new Chairman of the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya, is a man from the team of Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the Republic's Parliament, Andrei Serenko, a political analyst, has stated. His colleague Ruslan Martagov believes that Gardaloev will act in the context of the position of the Chechen authorities.

The court has released David Kharshiladze, a son of Eliso Kiladze, the editor-in-chief of the Tbilisi newspaper "Chronicle+", on bail of 6300 US dollars.

Advocates intend to appeal against the decision of the court, which sentenced defendants in the case on the Boris Nemtsov's murder to long terms of imprisonment. Till present, representatives of the victim party and public prosecutors have not yet decided on the plans concerning the verdict.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found rights violations of seven Azerbaijani citizens and ordered to pay compensation to them for their moral harm plus legal costs amounting in total to 65,300 euros.

Leaders of the Nogai organizations of Russia and Kazakhstan have sent an appeal to President Vladimir Putin asking him to influence the situation in the Nogai District of Dagestan.

Areg Kyuregyan, a defendant in the case on capture of a police regiment building in Yerevan, was transferred to a punishment cell for 10 days after a razor blade was found by him. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by advocate Musheg Shushanyan.

The Muftiate of Chechnya has refuted a report about a decree allegedly issued by the Chechen leader to create a commission to form a tolerant attitude to polygamy.

In the case on the politician Boris Nemtsov's murder, the court has found all the defendants guilty.

Ilya Ostrovsky, the producer of the KUBANA music festival, has released an open letter to Veniamin Kondratiev, Governor of the Krasnodar Territory. In his letter, the producer has noted that for several years, in vain he has been trying to return the music festival to Kuban.

At a meeting in the Kazbek District, Dagestani Prosecutor Ramazan Shakhnavazov has promised to check social networks for posts inciting ethnic hatred because of the conflict in Leninaul.

In Makhachkala, about 15 Muslims were detained after a night prayer at "Tangyim" mosque. This was reported by Imam Nigmatulla Radjabov. According to one of the believers, some detainees were released after questioning.

The film "Tesnota" (Tightness) was purchased for screening in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, despite the prohibition imposed by the director Kantemir Balagov. The screening will start on August 3.

Today, in Makhachkala, twenty tenants of No. 19 in Engels Street have held a rally on the developer's decision to build an additional floor on the roof. Such construction is possible only with the consent of all the owners in the house, said an official of the State Housing Inspectorate (SHI) of Dagestan.