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The Krasnoarmeisky District Court of the Volgograd Region has concluded that the website "Kavkaz News" posts extremist materials.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has postponed until September 5 the consideration on the merits of the terror act, which killed the religious leader Said Afandi al-Chirkawi and six other persons. The break is needed for to one of the defendants to get acquainted with the indictment.

The Kuschevsky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory has resumed the hearing of the criminal case against Nadezhda Tsapok, accused of a fraud; she is the mother of Sergey Tsapok, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment and recently died in Krasnodar SIZO.

The Moscow City Court has found the guilt of four Caucasian natives to be completely proven. The defendants are members of the organization "Hizb-ut-Tahrir al-Islami", which is banned in Russia, and they were accused of plotting an attempt to overthrow the constitutional order in the Russian Federation.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has started the trial in the case of the terror act, which killed religious leader Said Afandi al-Chirkawi and six other persons. The prisoners' dock contains four residents of Dagestan.

On Wednesday morning, human rights activist Leyla Yunus was detained near her house in Baku. She was delivered to the Investigating Department for Grave Crimes of the General Prosecutor's Office.

In the Rostov Region, OSCE observers have announced the beginning of their work at border checkpoints "Gukovo" and "Donetsk". In the coming days, new observers are to join the OSCE mission. This was announced by Paul Picard, the chief of the OSCE mission.

About 200 law enforcers still stay in the village of Maidanskoe of the Untsukul District of Dagestan. This was reported by local residents. However, according to them, the presence of law enforcers does not affect their lives at the moment.

The attack on the believers of the Armenian Echmiadzin Church committed on July 19 in Tbilisi, will not affect the inter-state and inter-church relations of Armenia and Georgia, said participants of the videoconference held with participation of Georgian and Armenian experts.

The South-Ossetian businessman Batyr Pukhaev, who went on a hunger strike on July 16 at the temporary detention facility (known as IVS) of Tskhinvali, is still rejecting nutrition and hospitalization, said the head of the IVS Otar Margiev.

A Rostov policeman became a figurant of a road accident with two casualties, as reported by the Investigating Department (ID) of the ICRF for the Rostov Region.

Despite the religious freedom guaranteed by the Azerbaijani Constitution, in legislation and practice the citizens' religious rights, especially of members of certain religious minorities, are restricted in the country.

The actions of a police investigator, who opened a criminal case against Anatoly Kolkhidov, an activists of the environmental movement "Stop Electrozink", has no violations – the absence of falsifications in Kolkhidov's case was confirmed by the courts, state the investigatory bodies of North Ossetia.

Three Russian border checkpoints in the Rostov Region – the "Novoshakhtinsk", "Kuibyshevo" and "Gukovo" – remained closed on Tuesday, because of non-operation of their neighbouring Ukrainian counterparts, said Ryan Farukshin, the spokesman of the Russia's Southern Customs Department.

On July 28, the Russian checkpoint "Kuibyshevo" located on the border of Russia's Rostov Region and Ukraine's Donetsk Region, received eight Ukrainian wounded servicemen. They were delivered to the Russian party for transporting through the humanitarian corridor back to Ukraine.

Residents of the subjects of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) have celebrated the Muslim holiday of Eid ul-Fitr (Uraza Bayram), which marks the end of the fasting during the holy month of Ramadan.

As reported today by Andrei Lysenko, the spokesman of the National Security and Defence Council (NSDC) of Ukraine, during the shelling of the border checkpoint "Dolzhansky" in the Luhansk Region from the territory of the Rostov Region, four Ukrainian border guards were killed and two more wounded. Two more employees of the State Border Service of Ukraine were wounded by the shelling from the territory adjacent to the checkpoint "Krasnaya Talovka".

Today, the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Georgia has announced about the presentation of charges of excess of power and dignity humiliation to the former President Mikhail Saakashvili; the latter has treated the charges as political.

Andrei Rybasov, a former investigator of the Investigating Department for Kalmykia of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), has been sentenced in the Stavropol Territory to one year in a colony-settlement. He was found guilty of arbitrariness, the ICRF has reported today.

Today, a local resident Rustam Azhigov was shot dead by fire from a car in the village of Plievo, Nazran District of Ingushetia. The killers managed to escape.