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The Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has appointed Timur Aliev as the Chairman of the Human Rights Council, the press service of the Chechen president and government has reported.

NGO activists have claimed a falsification that took place at Volgograd public hearing on the project of embankment reconstruction; they now intend to cancel its results in court.

On July 18, the suspects kept in the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the city of Cherkessk attempted to launch a rebellion, said the advocate of one of them, adding that it was caused by violations made by law enforcers.

On July 19, the Kirov Regional Court released Alexei Navalny, a convicted opposition member and a blogger, a candidate for the position of Mayor of Moscow, on recognizance not to leave the country during the appeal process.

On July 18, in Rostov-on-Don, in Lenin Square, people gathered spontaneously in support of Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition figure and blogger. Participants of the gathering state that the action, the details of which were spread in social networks, was attended by about 100 persons.

The public conference in Nalchik discussed the problem of conservation and development of national languages Kabardian and Balkar ones. Participants of the conference expressed the need to increase the enrolment of students in the departments of national languages at the local higher education institutions.

Said Amirov, who was dismissed from his position of Mayor of Makhachkala and accused of killing an investigator, was transferred back to SIZO (pre-trial prison) from the hospital, to which he was earlier brought for the medical examination.

Public organization "Karata" appealed to Ramazan Abdulatipov asking to engage investigators of the Russian Investigating Committee in solving the murder of Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev. In case the murder is not solved till September 5, the activists will go on an indefinite hunger strike.

On July 18, in Volgograd, activists held a rally in support of Alexei Navalny, who was sentenced to five years of imprisonment for organizing the embezzlement of the property belonging to the state enterprise "Kirovles". The participants of the action called the court's decision unfair.

Actions in support of Alexei Navalny, a candidate for the Mayor of Moscow, who was sentenced today to five years in prison, were held in Stavropol and Pyatigorsk at the same time.

A flash mob in support of Alexei Navalny, a candidate for the Mayor of Moscow, who was sentenced on July 18 to 5 years in prison on charges of embezzlement of the property of the state-owned company "Kirovles", was held in Krasnodar with participation of about 200 people.

The two persons killed during a shootout with power agents in the Lak District of Dagestan, have been preliminarily identified as Shamil Abdulmedjidov and Magomedtagir Timirchiev, the press service of the republic's MIA has reported. Abdulmedjidov and Timirchiev had been earlier put on the so-called "Khadjalmakhi execution list" and were kidnapped, their relatives assert.

Four men, who were killed in the Baksan District of Kabardino-Balkaria, were preparing a series of terror acts in the republic, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has reported.

The Nasimi District Court of Baku has rejected the motion lodged by the defence of Zaur Gurbanly, an activist of the civil movement "Nida" and a blogger, asking to put him under home arrest instead of custody.

The Commission in the US Congress for Security and Cooperation in Europe (the US Helsinki Commission) discussed the situation with democracy in Azerbaijan on the eve of the upcoming presidential election in the country.

In the suburban dwelling settlement of Vinsovkhoz of Khasavyurt, Shamil Abdulmedjidov, a local resident, born in 1983, was kidnapped. Earlier, the name of the kidnapped man was included in the "Khadjalmakhi execution list," and he became the second man from the list, whose disappearance was reported on the last day.

Khadidja Ismailova, a journalist of the Azerbaijani Branch of "Radio Liberty", has refused to perform community service in a place closed to the public. According to Khadidja Ismailova's report, she fears provocations.

A staff member of the Cherkessk SIZO (pre-trial prison) has again refused an advocate to visit her client and demanded to obtain the permission of the investigator. This was reported by Elvira Aidinova, the advocate of Abdul-Muslim Suleimanov, a native of Dagestan, accused of murder.

In anticipation of the pronouncement of the verdict to opposition activist Alexei Navalny on the case of "Kirovles", activists of nationalist organizations held actions in his support in the cities of Stavropol, Pyatigorsk, and Nevinnomyssk.

On July 17 in Makhachkala, Magomedtagir Timirchiev, whose name is on the so-called "Khadjalmakhi execution list", disappeared, said his son Magomed Timirchiev.