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During a shelling attack from the Armenian side on positions in the Kelbadjar district, a warrant officer of the Azerbaijani army was killed, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports today. The Armenian Ministry of Defence reported about three wounded soldiers and claimed that the Armenian side was not involved in the death of the Azerbaijani soldier.

Relatives of Abbas Khamkhoev, a detained resident of Ingushetia, do not trust the version of the law enforcement bodies, according to which he was allegedly storing an explosive device in a house with his own minor children. After the search at the house and detention of Abbas Khamkhoev, the family members were not aware about his whereabouts for 24 hours and filed a complaint to the police about the kidnapping, an advocate reports.

The “Aiisa” Company won in the Strasbourg Court a case on condoms, the packaging of which angered Orthodox believers. When Georgian courts banned the production of those condoms, they violated the right to freedom of expression, the European Court of Human Rights ruled.

Cooperation with an undesirable organization, in which Andrei Pivovarov is accused, is a crime of moderate gravity, and the evidence of guilt was presented with violations, advocates claim in a complaint about the arrest of a politician who is being kept at a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Krasnodar.

For a long time, residents of many dwelling settlements of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) have failed to draw authorities' attention to the absence of gas supplies to their houses, while the active reaction of Rashid Temrezov to the complaint of a female resident of Ust-Djeguta to the president has to do with the upcoming election of the head of the region, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Law enforcer have interrogated Tatiana Glinberg, the former coordinator of Navalny's office* in Stavropol, and then released her. Her persecution fits into the trend of systematic expelling of Navalny's supporters from Russia, the local activists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The compulsory vaccination introduced in Dagestan for workers in some spheres will have a bad effect on the vaccination campaign as a whole, says Ziyautdin Uvaisov, the head of the human rights organization "Patient's Monitor". "This initiative is discrediting the very vaccination procedure," he told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The Tbilisi City Court has arrested two more suspects of attacking journalists. Media professionals held another protest action at the Georgian Parliament demanding to punish the organizers and participants of the violence.

A resident of Nagorno-Karabakh, who got lost and ended up in the area controlled by Azerbaijan, has been returned from captivity through the intervention of Russian peacemakers, Gegam Stepanyan, the Ombudsperson of Nagorno-Karabakh, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent on July 22.

A Baku court has found 13 persons captured in the vicinity of Gadrut guilty of crossing the border and illegal arms trafficking; the charge of terrorism was dropped. Each of them was sentenced to six years in prison.

A court refused to grant Ingush activists the status of witnesses in a case on seven leaders of protests against the border agreement with Chechnya. The court’s refusal can result in the exclusion of the testimony from the case, the defence declares.

In the Stavropol Territory, law enforcers detained eight suspected members of the extremist organization “At-Takfir wal-Hijra”*, banned in Russia.

Three families of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh have been granted houses in the Lori Region from the “Children of Armenia” charity foundation, and other ten families are expecting to be settled in August.

In Baku, a court has recognized Russian citizen Eduard Dubakov as a participant in the battles against Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh and sentenced him to 10 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony.

Takhir Makhmudov and Yasin Mekhraliev, workers of a construction company, were injured in a mine explosion during reconstruction works in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Prosecutor’s Office of Azerbaijan reported.

Djambulat Gasanov, a human rights defender, has challenged in court a policeman's ban on video filming a picket in Makhachkala. Law enforcers are unreasonably demanding not to film them for fear of video recording of violations, local activists have suggested.

A group of environmentalists was inspecting an illegal garbage dump near the Klin-Yar nature monument when the landfill owner rammed their car by his jeep; he hit one of the activists and threatened others with violence.

Sergey Melikov, the acting head of Dagestan, has met Murtazali and Patimat Gasanguseinov in the village of Goor-Khindakh and planted trees in memory of their murdered sons. According to Murtazali Gasanguseinov, Melikov promised to help the family.

A woman from the Chegem District was accused of torturing her son only after the boy's father had learnt about beatings, while the guardianship bodies knew nothing about the family problems. The Nalchik large family, where the girl beaten by her stepfather died, was known to the officials as a problem one, but they did not notice the child abuse.

The shooting in the direction of the dwelling settlement of Heydarabad of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR), bordering on Armenia, caused no material damage to local residents, but worried them.