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Tatiana Ryabinova, the coordinator of the regional branch of the organization named "Vita" Centre for Protection of Animals' Rights, who held a solo picket on August 7 in Volgograd, was taken to the police station for questioning about her action.

Residents of the village of Khadjalmakhi, Levashin District of Dagestan, have complained to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" that the regiments of voluntary people's guards commit pogroms and set houses on fire.

Today, the Nasimi District Court of Baku has found Tural Abbasly, the head of the youth wing of the oppositional "Musavat" Party, guilty of evading administrative penalty and sentenced him to 15 days of administrative arrest.

Law enforcers released without charge all parishioners of the Buynaksk mosque detained today. This was reported by a source at the city police.

Rabbi Ovadia Isakov from the Derbent synagogue, who received a severe gunshot wound in the attack on him, was discharged from the hospital in the Israeli city of Petah Tikva, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia has reported.

The explosion committed at the building of the DPS (patrol service of road police) in the Kirov District of Volgograd represents the second attempt to blow up police buildings in the Volgograd Region.

A Senior Police Sergeant, who was wounded as a result of the attack on staff members of the DPS (patrol service of road police), committed last night in Nalchik, died at the hospital.

On August 6, at the trial in the case on the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", the Moscow City Court questioned several witnesses, including operative agents of law enforcement bodies. They were questioned behind closed doors.

Taron Margaryan, Mayor of Yerevan, has stated that he does not intend to meet the demand of activists of the movement "We will pay 100 drams" to dismiss transport officials. The activists responded by a protest action held in front of the City Mayoralty.

A local resident, who died at the detention facility of Nevinnomyssk, was diagnosed with heart failure, and he often drank alcoholic beverages, and that became the cause of his death.

August 9 is a month since the murder of Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. During the period, investigators failed to reveal the number of attackers and circumstances of the murder.

Twelve relatives of the missing residents of Dagestan Shamil Abdulaev and Shamil Zakiragaev held today a rally in Makhachkala without a sanction of the authorities.

Anna Politkovskaya was killed by law enforcers, not by suspected natives of Chechnya. This was stated today at the Moscow City Court by the lawyer Murad Musaev.

In Azerbaijan, Asif Orudjlu, an activist of the civil movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl) was sentenced to seven days of administrative arrest for disobeying the police.

As reported y the Southern Investigating Department for Transport, seven juvenile offenders cut their veins when in a train in protest against their convoying from the Krasnodar SIZO (pre-trial prison) to the Belorechensk Juvenile Correctional Colony.

Azerbaijani Court found Ali Guseinov, one of the elders of the village of Nardaran, a religious activist and a member of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan (IPA), guilty of violation of regulations to hold demonstrations and sentenced him to 9 days of administrative arrest.

In the Stavropol Territory, as a result of a road traffic accident involving a tourist bus, one person was killed, and 29 persons were injured. This was reported by Oleg Degtyarov, Spokesperson of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of the Stavropol Territory.

In Sochi, the family of local residents Toromonyan claims that the court pronounced the decision to withdraw without regard to the real cost the house and the garden of 0.23 hectares belonging to them for the Olympic venue an alternate highway of Kurortny Avenue.

The USA urges the Azerbaijan's authorities to ensure the conditions for free and fair presidential election. This is declared in the statement made by Richard Morningstar, US Ambassador in Baku.

The civil movement "Republican Alternative" (REAL) held a protest action demanding to release its leader Ilgar Mamedov.