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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.

In Abkhazia, all participants of an attack on Russian tourists have been identified. This was reported by Mukhamed Kilba, Secretary of the Abkhazian Security Council.

People, who bought tours to Abkhazia, reject them and claim their money back, the director of a travel company reports. The owner of a private hotel in Sukhumi has confirmed that tourists are scared with the murder.

On the eighth anniversary of the human rights defender Natalia Estemirova's murder, the US Department of State has called on the Russian authorities to punish the persons guilty for the above crime and put an end to the long-standing climate of impunity for extrajudicial executions.

Relatives and friends of Khamzat Bakhaev and Tamerlan Eskerkhanov, residents of Chechnya, sentenced to 11 and 14 years of imprisonment, respectively, claimed the lack of proof for their guilt.

Alexander Lapshin had twice travelled to Nagorno-Karabakh, accompanied by several people, in whose relation the criminal case was isolated into a separate proceeding, the prosecutor has stated at today's court session. Lapshin's advocate said that he would ask to acquit the blogger.

At the trial in Baku, public prosecutor found the Alexander Lapshin's guilt proven and requested the court to sentence him to 6.5 years of imprisonment.

Prisoners will not stop the hunger strike until their demands to improve conditions of detention are fulfilled. This was claimed by prisoners of the Tskhinvali penal colony during the visit of Zalina Lalieva, South Ossetian Minister of Justice.

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.

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.

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.