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The Centre to Resist Repressions (CRR) created under the Azerbaijani Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD) has launched a campaign for the boycott of the European Games to be held in 2015 in Baku. Leyla Yunus, the Director of the IPD, has sent corresponding appeals to the European Olympic Committee and the office of the European Olympic Committee in the European Union.

Faraj Kerimli, 29, the deputy chairman of the youth organization of the oppositional "Musavat" Party, detained on July 23 in Azerbaijan, is suspected of illegal drug possession, said the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan.

The Folk Dance Ensemble of Georgia "Sukhishvili" has cancelled its concert in Saint Petersburg in connection with the events in Ukraine, Nino Sukhishvili, the head of the ensemble, said on July 23.

The health condition of the 4-year-old girl beaten in Grozny and hospitalized in Children's Hospital No. 2 of the capital of Chechnya remains grave, said Ruslan Ganaev, the chief physician of the hospital. Cases, when stepparents apply violence to their foster children periodically occur in the republic, locals report.

In the Stavropol Territory, relatives of Almaz Abdulnasyrov, a resident of the Neftekumsk District, who, according to the official version, was killed in a shootout with power agents in the Novoselitskoe District, ask the Prosecutor's Office to check the legality of policemen's action, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan has begun considering the appeal complaint against the verdict passed by the Buynaksk City Court against Zarema Bagavutdinova, an activist of the Dagestani Regional Public Organization "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy). At the July 23 court session, the defence asked to cancel the verdict against Bagavutdinova.

A charity action of food distribution among needy families was held on July 23 in the settlement of Novy in the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia. In total, volunteers distributed some 200 packages of foodstuffs, Beslan Tsechoev, the adviser to the head of Ingushetia, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Aisha Selimkhanova, an activist of the DRPO "Pravozaschita", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that all the mosque-goers detained at night on July 23 in Hungarian Fighters Street had been released.

Asoltan Amaev, a resident of the settlement Tarki of Makhachkala, who was considered missing, was found burned down in his car on the road in the Kumtorkalin District, said the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy).

The convict Vladimir Alexeev, a member of the Tsapok's gang, who is kept at SIZO-1 (pre-trial prison) of Krasnodar, has abandoned his earlier announced hunger strike, the press service of the Prosecutor's Office of the KrasnodarTerritory has reported today.

Faraj Kerimli, 29, the deputy chairman of the youth organization of the oppositional "Musavat" Party, was detained today in Baku, his advocate reports. His party colleagues believe that Kerimli's detention has to do with his public and political activities and his activism on the Internet.

On July 19, the central park of the city of Maikop became the venue of a flash mob – a public action "City with a Book", held on the initiative of the National Library of Adygea. Aminat Kuchmezova, the head of the sector of mass events of the library, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the main task of the action was to promote reading.

The daily inflow of Ukrainian refugees to the Rostov Region makes 1500-2000 persons, while other regions accommodate some 300-500 people each, Vasily Golubev, the Rostov Governor, told the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The Governor believes that the flow of immigrants to other regions should be doubled.

Aslan Beshto, the chairman of the public movement "Kabardian Congress" (Nalchik), told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that Canada had launched the International Circassian Organization to Support Repatriation, intended to work exclusively within the humanitarian aspect. Beshto is a member of its executive committee.

The man shot dead on July 21 in a shootout in the Novoselitskoe District of Stavropol Territory is Almaz Abdulnasyrov, a resident of the village of Kara-Tobe, Neftekumsk District, says his wife. She questions the power agents' version of the incident, in which the man was shot dead.

Last night, law enforcers of the capital of Dagestan conducted mass detentions of mosque-goers in Hungarian Fighters Street, according to eyewitnesses. Several worshipers from the mosque in Kotrov Street were also taken to the police.

The lawyer Arsen Radjabov, who is defending Isa Abdulkadyrov, detained in Dagestan on suspicion of illegal possession of firearms, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that investigators ignore the statement about violation by policemen of his client's rights.

Today, employees of the oppositional newspaper "Azadlyg" (Freedom) have held a picket outside the offices of the state company for distributing the press named "Gasid" with a demand to repay the debt the company owes to the newspaper.

Leonid Roshal, the Director of the Moscow Institute of Children's Emergency Surgery and Traumatology, told today the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the girl of four, who was beaten up in Grozny, is in grave condition and cannot be transported to Moscow.

As a result of a car explosion in Nagorno-Karabakh, today Ruben Khlgatyan, the Mayor of the city of Armavir in Armenia, was wounded. His driver was killed; two other passengers of the car were also wounded.