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A rally was held in the Georgian village of Anaklia. Participants of the rally spoke in support of the "KaZantip" Festival. They have stated that the event will contribute to the region's development and well-being of every family. The rally took place simultaneously with the Tbilisi rally, participants of which demanded to cancel the festival.

In the evening of July 26, more than 40 Ukrainian soldiers crossed the Rostov section of the Russian-Ukrainian border, and two of them sought refuge and declared their intention to apply for the Russian citizenship. This was reported by the Spokesperson of the FSB Department.

In Tbilisi, about 200 people participated today in a protest action held in front of government office, demanding from the authorities to prohibit the "KaZantip" Festival in Georgia. The protesters gathered signatures to the petition and plan to hand it over on July 28 to the government office.

Faraj Kerimli, an activist of the "Musavat" Party, arrested for illegal possession and sale of drugs, has declared his innocence, report the human rights activists from the Committee against Torture, who visited Kerimli. His advocate Nemat Kerimli believes that his client may be exposed to pressure at the isolation facility.

On July 26, the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov compiled his own sanction list, consisting of five officials from the USA and EU, who are denied entry into the republic. Kadyrov has accused leaders of the United States and the European Union "of state terrorism directed against countries and peoples."

Arsen Radjabov, the advocate of Isa Abdulkadyrov, detained in Dagestan on suspicion of illegal possession of firearms, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that his client was taken by policemen to some unknown place, and he cannot find him.

The Volgograd Regional Department of the Russian Federal Migration Service (FNS) has registered about 5,500 citizens of Ukraine, but as on July 25 only 287 of them had applied for temporary shelter, Kirill Adzinov, the head of the FMS Department, said during a press conference on July 25.

Foodstuffs in Chechen marketplaces have become much more expensive on the eve of the completion of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, as local residents told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. Entrepreneurs say that prices were lifted by wholesalers; and retailers are forced to sell food products more expensive, in order not to remain at a loss.

Farid Mamedov, a minor resident of the village of Alibeili, Tovuz District of Azerbaijan, was wounded by gunfire from the positions of Armenian troops and hospitalized to the hospital in Baku, its doctors have reported today. Doctors have assessed the overall health condition of the teenager as satisfactory.

The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Abkhazia has approved the membership of the election commissions that will work outside the republic during the presidential election on August 24. The commissions will service the Abkhazians living in Russia and Turkey.

Alexander Tkachov, the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, and the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov have been put on the list of persons exposed to sanctions of the European Union (EU) in the context of the worsening situation in the south-east of Ukraine and accession of the Crimea to Russia.

The Ukrainian border checkpoint "Marinovka" was shelled from the territory of the Rostov Region, said the information centre of the National Security and Defence Council (NSDC) of Ukraine. Meanwhile, the Frontier Department of the Russia's FSB for the Rostov Region asserts that because of Ukrainian attacks they had to evacuate almost all the residents of the farm named Primiussky in the Kuibyshev District.

By the evening on July 25, all the 44 detained believers, who protested outside the Israeli Embassy in Baku, were back at large. Four of them were fined administratively, others were warned, said the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan (IPA).

Relatives of Dilgam Askerov and Shakhbaz Guliev, the natives of the Kalbadjar District of Azerbaijan, who were detained in Nagorno-Karabakh, have appealed to the Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian Ambassador in Baku Vladimir Dorokhin asking for assistance in releasing them.

Alexei Aleturovich, a regular soldier, recruited from the Kirov Region, was found dead in a military unit in Buynaksk, the military prosecutor's office of the city has reported today. His relatives believe that Alexei could become a victim to the hazing in the army unit.

At night on July 24, actively discussed reports appeared in social networks that the page of the Russian soldier Vadim Grigoriev in the "VKontakte" had posted photos of artillery cannons and ammunition with the comment "shelling Ukraine all the night." A few minutes later the mention of Ukraine was deleted, as well as the account itself; however, users managed to make screenshots.

In the morning on July 25, a group of believers held a protest action in front of the Israeli Embassy in Baku in connection with the military actions of the Israeli Army in the Gaza Strip. The action organized by the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan (IPA) was dispersed by the police; and many protesters were detained.

As reported on July 24 by the press service of the regional department for the prevention and elimination of emergencies (known as DPChS), it was decided to move the temporary accommodation centre (TAC), located three kilometres off the checkpoint "Novoshakhtinsk" in the Rostov Region, away from the Ukrainian border.

The Krasnodar ecologist Evgeny Vitishko, who is serving his term in a colony in the Tambov Region, was reprimanded again – this time for not greeting a colony official, his supporters reported on July 24. In his turn, Gennady Kornienko, the Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service, said that the information about a biased attitude to Vitishko in the colony was not confirmed.

The MPs of Nagorno-Karabakh have called to change the freedom restriction measure for Levon Airapetyan, arrested on July 15 in Moscow. A similar appeal was made by the Prime Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh Ara Arutyunyan, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.