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Today, the Baku Court of Appeal (CoA) has upheld the verdict to rights defender Intigam Aliev in the case of his tax evasion, illegal entrepreneurship, and a large-scale misappropriation or embezzlement. The defence intends to appeal against the verdict.

The European Council treats the actions of the South-Ossetian party of installing border signs on the border with Georgia as an attempt to destabilize the situation in the region, Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council (EC), said at a press conference in Tbilisi. The EC does not recognize the independence of South Ossetia, he said.

During his psychiatric examination, Zaur Dadaev, the main figurant in the Boris Nemtsov's murder case, told doctors that he had been contused during the militants' attack on Grozny. This was two months before the assassination of Nemtsov.

The constitutional reforms offered by the Commission for Constitutional Reforms in Armenia will create a one-party ruling system, which, in its turn, will contribute to reproduction of power. The absence of partisan competition will hinder democratic development, local experts said at a press conference in Yerevan on July 20.

About 30 Sochi residents came to the opening of the monument to corruption, which was built by the spouses Lyubov Berchanova and Vasily Zhuravlyov in the place of their house, demolished in 2013 in fulfilment of the court judgement.

According to investigators, the person shot dead in the shootout with policemen in the Tabasaran District of Dagestan, turned out to be Magomed Ismailov, a member of the armed underground.

Rovshan Zakhidov and Tural Zakhidov, relatives of Ganimat Zakhid (Zakhidov), the editor-in-chief of the oppositional newspaper "Azadlyg", have been sentenced to administrative arrests for 25 and 30 days, accordingly, in Azerbaijan.

The administrative case against Yulia Usach, an activist of the "Left-Wing Front", has been sent to the Sovietskiy District Court of Krasnodar; she is accused of reposting caricatures depicting nazi swastika.

Relatives and advocates of Ibadullo Nabotov, an employee of the mosque located in Hungarian Warriors Street of Makhachkala, convicted of illegal possession of weapons, report that they will not appeal against the verdict.

The republic's clergy have failed to timely inform the public about the first day of Eid al-Fitr, said residents of Chechnya. According to their story, they believed the information of the Muftiat that the first day will be July 18, not July 17.

The Department of the Russian FSB for the Krasnodar Territory has stopped the case about insulting the President of the Russian Federation, initiated against the Krasnodar activist Darya Polyudova, said Andrei Sabinin, her advocate.

In the course of searching the house of a suspected militant, law enforcers detained Magomed Gadjimagomedov's wife, said residents of the village of Gotsatl, Khunzakh District of Dagestan.

Today, activists of the movement "No to robbery!" that is fighting against the increase of electricity tariff, have held a one-day action, during which they hang up photos of the law enforcers who were involved at night on June 23 in dispersing demonstrators. Rimma Sargsyan, a member of the group, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that policemen followed activists and tore off the photos.

For a long time, the land plots in the cottage settlement Vesyoloe-Psou are not duly documented; and houses there are not guarded, the city Prosecutor's Office has confirmed. However, according to Yuri Maryan, the leader of the anti-corruption coalition of Sochi, the Office has not offered any real measures to remedy the situation.

Law enforcers have detained a resident of Dagestan, in whose house they found weapons and ammunition. He was arrested by the court.

During the week from July 13 to July 19, 2015, at least eight people were killed 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.

The year 2014 in Azerbaijan was characterized by arrests of journalists and rights defenders, the ban on travels abroad, investigations against activists, a wave of interferences in the work of local and foreign NGOs, says the study of the USAID (the US Agency for International Development).

The decision adopted by the Russian Constitutional Court (CC) on the priority of the Russian Constitution over the international law is of political character, though it does not mean that Russia will evade paying all the compensations awarded by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), said the lawyers, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

This morning, an armed clash with a group of unidentified persons broke out in the Tabasaran District of Dagestan, when the latter opened fire at policemen. One of the attackers was shot dead; and a SWAT agent was lost in the shootout.

On July 18, Sochi hosted a rally, where its participants declared the inadmissibility to build-up the territory, formerly a part of the National Park. Land plots are allocated with violations of the law; many construction sites are legitimized only by court judgements, said the activists.