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Today, in Makhachkala, the "Dynamo" Stadium has hosted a rally in support of the local "Anji" Football Club (FC), which was banned by the UEFA to hold Europa League in Dagestan for security reason. The protesters adopted a resolution calling the UEFA to set up and send a commission of independent experts to Makhachkala to make an objective decision.

A relative of one of the protesting inmates told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that some 40-60 persons kept in Makhachkala SIZO (pre-trial prison), dissatisfied with their custody conditions, went on a hunger strike.

On July 6, the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev signed a law on amending the Law "On Receipt of Information". Public activists were against the amendments, as they saw a restriction on the freedom of information and press in these innovations.

On July 6, a unit of 35 Armenia's peacemakers left for Kosovo.

More than 50 organizations of the "Public Environmental Alliance" have sent a letter to Ovik Abramyan, Chairman of the National Assembly of Armenia, and Samvel Balasanyan, Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on Agriculture and Environment, asking to nullify the decision to take out water from Lake Sevan. 20 public organizations of the Gegharkunik region have addressed Ovik Abramyan with the same request.

The Board of Veterans of War, Labour, Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Bodies have spoken against demolition of Polyclinic No. 1 in Konstitutsii Street, which is servicing about one hundred thousand people living in the Central and Khosta Districts of Sochi. According to the administration of the polyclinic, no demolition is planned; the staff will just move to another building for the time of repairs.

Mirza Omariev, the former Director General of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Dagestani Airlines", and the current company boss Zhabir Abakarov are suspected of abusing their service power by the amount of more than 230 million roubles, according to the website of the Chief Department of the MIA of the NCFD.

The Russian State Duma has stripped immunity from Vladimir Bessonov and consented to instituting a criminal case against the MP from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), who is accuses the consequence of resisting police during an election event in Rostov-on-Don on December 2, 2011.

In the Dagestani village of Leninkent, after the Friday prayers, masked gunmen killed two parishioners, a believer who preferred to remain anonymous, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Today, the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) hosts celebrations dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the Karachay-Cherkessian Autonomous Region (known as KChAO) and the Day of Unity of KChR nations. Because of the double holiday, July 6 was announced a day off.

On July, 5, residents of Armenia celebrated the 17th anniversary of adoption of the Constitution. All the sectors of society guided by the Constitution must eliminate the existing unconformity between the proclaimed values and reality, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan declared on the occasion of the holiday.

A mass scuffle with the participation of natives of Northern Caucasus during which six persons got injured took place this morning in the South-West of the capital, a source in law enforcement bodies reported. Press service of the Department of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the capital mentions eight sufferers.

On July, 5, a group of writers and publicists of Azerbaijan held a discussion about the arrest of two young Azerbaijani poets, Farid Gusein and Shahriyar Gajizade, in Iran. During the discussion it was decided to create a committee for protection of the arrested poets.

Unidentified people committed an assault at writer Vagram Saakyan. He underwent cruel beating and is currently staying at home with a violent headache, Aram Antinyn, Editor-in-Chief of "Blognews" media, reported.

The Internet has disseminated an appeal of a group of armed men, threatening militants and personally Temirbek, a certain "Amir of the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan" and calling on them to lay down their arms. The video record has caused widespread debate among web users. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan has begun to examine the video record, and it promises to punish under the law for extrajudicial executions.

Leonid Zrumov, the head of the Department of the Federal Treasury of the Russian Federation in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, is suspected of misuse of budgetary funds for the amount of more than 19.8 million roubles. This was reported today by the press service of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Today, Baku hosted the presentation of the project "Djeyranchol", developed by the National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) and the Trust Foundation of the NATO Programme "Partnership for Peace".

A 29-year-old female native of Uzbekistan was detained on charges of murdering an 88-year-old female resident of the city of Apsheronsk. According to investigators, she was connected with the religious organization "Jehovah's Witnesses". This was reported by the press service of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in the Krasnodar Territory. In their turn, Jehovah's Witnesses stated that the defendant was not a member of the organization.

Gazimagomed Abdullaev, a native of Dagestan, who permanently resides in Moscow, stated that border guards did not allow him visiting his native village Vitsiyatl of the Tsuntin District. According to the Border Guard Department of the Russian FSB in the Republic of Dagestan, Gazimagomed Abdullaev was not allowed to the village of Vitsiyatl, since he failed to obtain a permission to stay in the border area.

Mariam Badalyan, a resident of Makhachkala, claims disappearance of Murad Sitablaev, her 29-year-old husband.