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Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has completed the investigation into the case on riots in the village of Sagra, during which a native of Azerbaijan was killed. During the court session, all motions filed by participants of the trial were dismissed with motivation that the court of first instance had examined in details all the necessary materials.

Members of the programme "Georgian-Russian Dialogue for Peace and Cooperation" have visited village on the border of Georgia with South Ossetia. Villagers said that the border line built by the authorities of South Ossetia and Russian border guards had split their houses, forcing them to quit them, and deprived them of their land plots.

A group of five Russian tourists was detained on the territory of South Ossetia. This was reported by Sergey Kolbin, Chief of the South Ossetian Border Guard Service. According to his information, at present, four out of the five detained tourists have been already fined and deported to Russia.

According to the experts' conclusion, the DNA samples, found on the pistol and on the place of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, do not match the DNA samples of the defendants. Today, the conclusions of the conducted examination were announced today at the trial at the Moscow City Court by Prosecutor Boris Loktionov.

Musa Pliev, a lawyer from the Moscow Bar, the defender of Khalimat Rasulova, a native of Dagestan, who was detained on suspicion of attempting a policeman's life, states that the allegation against his client was incorrectly qualified.

In the opinion of Gasan Aigunov, the chairman of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) in the Republic of Dagestan, the case Patimat and Sabina Abakarova, in whose house in Makhachkala, as claimed power agents, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were found, will soon fall apart.

In Tskhinvali, the ten-apartment building, occupied in this March by people in need of improvement of their living conditions, is the object under construction, and tenants have unlawfully occupied the apartments and will be evicted. This was announced at a meeting by Rostik Khugaev, Prime Minister of South Ossetia.

Community of advocates of Dagestan claims that citizens' rights for defence are systematically violated in the republic. The investigating and law enforcement bodies prevent advocates' visit to persons under investigation, the investigating practice more often includes torture, and, in fact, the procedural equality of parties, declared in the law, is not respected.

Today, the Tbilisi City Court refused to release on bail Mikhail Kadiev and Rizvan Omarov, who were charged of the illegal acquisition and possession of weapons and explosive substances. This was reported by Gela Nikoleishvili, the advocate of the defendants.

Within the coming two weeks, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia will destroy a part of the archive of materials recording citizens' privacy, accumulated as a result of illegal secret surveillance and tapping telephone conversations.

Almost all salesmen, who were detained during the special operation carried out at the "Matveevsky" Marketplace in Moscow, were released from the police station. This was reported by Andrei Remennik, Director of the "Matveevsky" Marketplace.

Today, the court has rejected the petition to invite ten additional witnesses and three experts, submitted by the suffered party in the case of a fight in the car park of the "Harsnaqar" Restaurant.

Today, the Nasimi District Court of Baku has rejected the motions lodged by the defence of the "Nida" activists Rashad Gasanov and Uzeyir Mamedli asking to take them out of custody and put under home arrest.

The action "Let's close the Virginity Institute!" was held in Tbilisi in the evening on July 30, where women-protesters expressed their indignation at the actions of employees of the National Bureau of Forensic Examination, who, according to the protesters, issue "virginity certificates" to women. The Bureau denies the practice.

Today, at the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, at the trial on the case against Hilal Mamedov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" (Voice of Talysh), three motions that were filed by the defendant and his advocates last week were dismissed.

In the Astrakhan Region, there is a problem with radical Islam; however, the statements of representatives of the local FSB Department about 60 female residents of the Astrakhan Region, who are wives or already widows of militants and who are treated in this connection as potential terrorists, are exaggerations. This was stated by Rinat Mukhametov, a political analyst.

The authorities are putting pressure on the human rights organization "Mashr", because it releases information about murders and kidnappings in Ingushetia, said the head of the organization Magomed Mutsolgov. The administrative staff of the head of the republic was instructed to address the Prosecutor's Office and power bodies and ask to initiate a revision of Mutsolgov's statements.

In Georgia, at the meeting held on July 30 in the city of Tbilisi, the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) of Azerbaijan decided to appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin asking to speed up the procedures for the termination of the Russian citizenship of screenwriter Rustam Ibragimbekov, the presidential candidate from the NCDF.

During operational and preventive actions to decriminalize the Moscow marketplace in Yasenevo District, 30 natives of Northern Caucasus were detained. This was reported by representative of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) for the capital of the Russian Federation.

Today, the Proletarsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don has questioned three victims at the trial on the case against Yuri Balabanov, the owner of the dormitory "Parus". Residents of the dormitory stated that during an attempt to capture the building, attackers beaten them and used tear gas.