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In the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, during the week from July 7 to July 13, 2014, at least 17 persons suffered, including 12 people killed and at least five wounded. These are the results of the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Once again, Yerevan hosts the international festival "Golden Apricot". The launched event has a positive impact on the Armenian cinematography. This opinion has been expressed by Arutyun Khachatryan, a founder of the cinema forum.

Ruslan Khadjiev, an advocate of the Advocates' Chamber Bar of Kabardino-Balkaria, has appealed to Oleg Zharikov, Prosecutor of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), asking him to take appropriate steps in connection with the violation of his rights as a defender in the criminal case against local resident Rustam Kagazezhev.

The lawyer Elena Denisenko, who is representing the interests of Marat Nasredinov, a resident of Magaramkent, has lodged a complaint against the inaction of the investigator for especially important cases of the Investigating Department for Dagestan.

As a result of the explosion of an artillery shell fired from the territory of Ukraine, a man of 46 was killed in the Donetsk District of the Rostov Region; and a woman was wounded, said the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

According to the NGO "Free Zone", incidents were fixed at several polling stations of Georgia during the second round of municipal elections. According to the NGO "Multinational Georgia", about 20 violations were registered in the districts with the predominant population of national minorities.

The appeal against the verdict to Zarema Bagavutdinova, an activist of the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy), will be held on July 23, said her advocate Ziyautdin Uvaisov.

An Azerbaijani soldier, a member of a diversion group, was killed on July 11 during an operation to neutralize the group in the territory of Karvachar located on the border of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh; also, an Armenian officer was lost, and a woman was wounded, reports the press service of the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD).

The international organization in defence of the media "Reporters Without Borders" (RWB) has condemned the 5-year conviction of the 19-year-old blogger Omar Mamedov, says the RWB's statement released in the evening on July 11. The document urged the bodies of justice to remove the absurd charges against the blogger at the court of appeal.

Relatives of the four locals, killed during the special operation conducted in the Dagestani village of Maidanskoe, complain that they cannot get dead men’s bodies for burial from law enforcers. The bodies of those killed during the special operation will be given out to relatives after the end of the identification procedure, an employee of the morgue in Makhachkala told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The participants of the roundtable held in Volgograd on July 11 stated the need to set up some coordination body to address the problems of the Ukrainians who had arrived in the region. Refugees have addressed the local Ombudsman and the Pension Fund.

As of July 12, 2014, the demand of immediate liberation of ecologist Evgeny Vitishko from colony was signed by 5173 persons. In total, activists plan to collect 100,000 signatures in support of the ecologist.

In Stavropol, a court sanctioned arrest of the agent of the patrol-and-post service (PPS), suspected of abuse of office. The policeman broke a jaw of a detained young man, said the Investigating Department (ID) for the Stavropol Territory of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

The checkpoints "Gukovo", "Donetsk" and "Novoshakihtinsk", located on the Russian-Ukrainian border in the Rostov Region, have resumed their work, Vasily Malaev, the official representative of the Frontier Service of the FSB for the Rostov Region, said today.

The city of Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, has opened a centre for collection of humanitarian aid for the people who left the area of the antiterrorist operation conducted now in the Lugansk and Donetsk Regions of Ukraine. Residents of South Ossetia are bringing clothes, personal hygiene items, toys and household appliances.

Dashgyn Agalarov, a member of the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) of Azerbaijan was detained in Georgia. Azerbaijan has initiated his extradition procedure, while Georgian rights defenders demand to provide him with political asylum, as Nana Kakabadze, the head of the NGO "Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The NGO "Fair Elections" reports about pre-election violations registered before the second round of elections to local self-government bodies in Georgia. In particular, rights defenders have revealed facts of illegal campaigning and pressure on officials and candidates.

The Azerbaijani journalist Rauf Mirkadirov, who was arrested on charges of treason, has testified, for the first time during nearly three months of his custody, to investigators. He has completely denied the charges against him, said Elmar Suleimanov, one of his defenders.

Today, the house of Gadjigishi Bambatov, the chairman of the Dagestani organization "Atly-Boyun Public Anti-Corruption Board", located in the Leninkent neighbourhood of Makhachkala, was searched. Bambatov claims that the search was an attempt to put pressure and intimidate him to force him to give up his struggle with land frauds.

As reported by statements posted on the websites that support North-Caucasian militants, the latter took responsibility for assassinating Aitemir Salimgereev, the former head of the GOVD (City Interior Division) of Kizilyurt, and a police major in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan.