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The thirtieth Olympic Games start in London today. The capital of Great Britain has become the Olympic host for already the third time. Athletes from the Caucasus will also participate in the competitions, generally in power and combat kinds of sport: Greco-Roman style, freestyle wrestling, women’s style, judo, tae kwon do, boxing and weight lifting.

Relatives of Magomed Sulaev, earlier released resident of Khasavyurt district, reported that on July, 26, a suspicious car with tinted window glasses, without vehicle identification numbers was staying near his house the whole day. They fear that Magomed might be kidnapped again.

On July, 26, Mkhitar Alumyan, ex-officer of the Armenian police who earlier committed an attempt of self-immolation in front of the President’s residence, went on a hunger strike near the police office demanding compensation for overtime in law enforcement bodies.

On July 22, inmate of the Nalchik SIZO (pre-trial prison) organized a mass protest action and rejected aluminium utensils, provide to them at the SIZO. According to the participants of the protest action, arrested persons, diagnosed with tuberculosis and prisoners, belonging to "lower caste", ate from their dishes.

Armenians of Syria hope for simplification of the procedure for entering their historical homeland and for reduction of the period for obtaining citizenship from the current six months to one or two months. This was stated by Tigran Gaboyan, a Syrian writer of Armenian descent, at today's press conference, held in Yerevan.

In Armenia, investigators filed charges in the case on balloons, exploded on May 4 at Republic Square in Yerevan, against Serob Bozoyan, a citizen of the country. The entrepreneur is accused of filling the balloons with explosive gas methane, and he is under recognizance not to leave. This was reported by the Police of Armenia.

The case of four persons, accused of the organization of the terror act at the Moscow "Domodedovo" Airport was brought to the court. This was reported today by the press service of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation.

Nutsi Aliev, a 32-year-old resident of Kaspiisk, who was considered disappeared since July 24, was found at the IVS (temporary detention facility) of Kaspiisk; however, no one is allowed to visit him. This was reported today by Maryana, the wife of Nutsi Aliev.

The noise-protection screens around the Olympic construction in Sochi, which Vladimir Vasilenko, Deputy Chief Engineer of the Closed Joint-Stock Company (CJSC) "PRiSS" promised to install till July 26, have not been established yet. According to resident of the city, till present, no noise-protection screens are installed, despite the fact that the construction works are going on.

Shoger Matevosyan, the editor-in-chief of the Armenian newspaper "Fourth Power" has stated that she is not afraid of the lawsuit, filed by blogger Tigran Kocharyan to court against her newspaper. Date of the court at the suit is still unknown.

On July 25, members of the human rights movement "Veche of Mineralnye Vody" informed the regional media about the start of the indefinite hunger strike, demanding the dismissal of the Mayor. According to the protesters, the hunger strike was reasoned by the consequences of the flooding in the city of Mineralnye Vody, which damaged more than 100 house ownerships of local residents.

On July, 25, Central district court of Sochi validated the judgment of the magistrate's court of calling Irina Brovkina to administrative account for holding a meeting. In this way, the activist’s appeal against the verdict of the magistrate's court was dismissed.

On July, 25, after more than a three-week break trial on the case of Editor-in-Chief of “Khural” newspaper Avaz Zeinalov under the chairmanship of judge Ramella Allahverdieva recommenced in the court for grave crimes of Baku.

In the evening of July, 24, resident of Kaspiysk Nutsi Aliev aged 32 disappeared in Dagestan, his wife Mariana Alieva reported.

Leader of oppositional coalition “The Georgian Dream” billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili paid a fine of 74,3 million lari (about 45,6 million dollars) and sum of execution to 5,2 million lari (about 3,2 million dollars) imposed by the court in full, Besik Liluashvili, representative of PR service of National Sentence-implementation agency of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, reported.

The court granted a motion of viewing a video record of sufferer Zelmhan Chitigov’s evidence at a trial on the case of ex-employees of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Ingushetia accused of using torture against the detainees.

The defense of Sergey Arakcheev, ex-officer of Inner Troops of the Ministry of Interior Affairs who fought in Chechnya, sentenced to 15 years of custody for accusation of murder of three peaceful residents of Chechnya in January of 2003 appealed against the law “On state forensic expert activities” in the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.

Non-governmental organization “Transparency International – Georgia” made public its survey of the current year’s state budget. This data is open and published by mass media. The authors of the survey presented on July, 20, draw public attention to “politically motivated expenditures from state budget of the country”.

A meeting of young Russian and Georgian political scientists and experts in international relations is currently in process in Tbilisi within the framework of a program “Russian-Georgian dialogue for peace and cooperation” organized by Center of cultural interrelation the “Caucasian Home”. The participants already point out the importance of exchange of views and perception of the present-day situation with the relations between the two countries.

A reception point of ”Migration and Right” network recently opened in Sochi will be consulting migrant workers and rendering them legal aid. This was reported by Coordinator of the reception Semen Simonov.