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Today, in Yerevan, at the buildings of the government, the Mayoralty, the Conservatory of Music a series of protest actions were held with demands to cancel the decision of the Yerevan City Mayoralty to raise tariffs for public transport.

In Chechnya, a 19-year-old local resident was detained on suspicion of posting on the Internet the calls for "jihad against infidels." The issue of instituting a criminal case against him for incitement to extremism is under consideration.

On July 25, at the session of the People's Assembly of Dagestan, MPs have unanimously voted to approve Abdusamad Gamidov, Finance Minister, at the position of the Prime Minister of Dagestan.

On July 24, near the building of the Sochi Mayoralty, lawyer Roman Shikarev held a solo picket against the actions of the head of the Department for Family and Children Affairs of the Sochi administration. The picketer claimed violation of the rights of a girl sought by her relatives.

On July 24, nine people came out in central Volgograd to hold a picket in support of the oppositional leader Alexei Navalny. The picket was held at the monument to Ataman Zasekin, where people held posters: "For Navalny!", "Those guilty imprison those innocent!", "Let's destroy this feudal system!"

The consideration of the murder case of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya began on July 24 at the Moscow City Court. All five defendants pled not guilty.

Murad Shuaibov, detained in Dagestan, is suspected of killing Dagestani journalists Malik Akhmedilov and Gadjimurad Kamalov. According to his advocate, investigators are forcing his client to testify against high-ranking officials of Dagestan.

On July 24, about 20 people gathered in Rhodope Boulevard in Makhachkala to hold a picket against violations of defendants' rights. The action was organized by relatives of Magomed Piraev, an operative agent of the Kizilyurt ROVD (District Interior Division), who is accused of robbery.

According to calculations of the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources, at least 296 people suffered, in the second quarter of 2013, in the armed conflict ongoing in Northern Caucasus. Of them, 118 people were killed and at least 178 more were wounded.

In Dagestan, "honour killings" (and investigators also classified the murder of Maryam Magomedova, a resident of the village of Nechaevka, as an "honour killing") are committed not often; however, "honour killings" are not uncommon, local lawyers and experts emphasize.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, within the programme "Movement of citizens from old and dilapidated buildings", officials propose several families to enter a single apartment, and in the Chegem District, no programme of movement has been developed. This was reported by Nikolai Maslov, Chairman of the Commission on Social Policy of the Public Chamber of the Republic.

The health state of Zaur Gurbanly, an activist of the movement "Nida", is satisfactory, and he receives the necessary medical care. This was reported by a representative of the Azerbaijani Ombudsman's office.

Relatives of Rustam Khaibulaev, a resident of Buynaksk, detained on suspicion of illegal possession of weapon, claim violations committed by law enforcers in the course of the search carried out at the house.

The children of Anna Politkovskaya, the murdered journalist, refused to participate in the trial on the case of her murder, since they treated the trial as illegitimate. This was stated in the formal statement made by Ilya Politkovsky and Vera Politkovskaya.

The convicts in the case of the explosion of the "Neva-Express" Train and their relatives have filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), alleging torture, violation of rights to the defence and fair trial.

Students David Barsegyan and Rafael Avakyan, figuring as defendants on charges of espionage in Nagorno-Karabakh, have been found guilty and sentenced to 10 and 11 years in prison, respectively.

On July 23, a protest action was launched in front of the Mayoralty of Yerevan, organized by the initiative group "We won't pay 150 drams!" It was attended by about 300 people, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

As reported by Semyon Simonov, the head of the network "Migration and Law", on July 23 the reception room of the network was inspected by employees of the city prosecutor's office, tax inspectorate and the Federal Security Bureau (FSB).

The attack on Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, undertaken on January 11, 2013, will be investigated within a criminal case of attempted murder, the spokesman of the Department for Dagestan of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), said today.

On Thursday, July 25, an extraordinary session of the People's Assembly of Dagestan will be held. It is to consider the issue on appointment of new Chairman of the Republic's Government.