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The defence of the convicts for torture – ex-employees of the Predgorny ROVD (District Interior Division) – asks to completely overturn the verdict of the first instance – the Predgorny District Court of Stavropol Territory – and to find them innocent, said Marina Dubrovina, the advocate of Vyacheslav Merekha.

Today, the Lenin Court of Vladikavkaz has made a decision to put Valentina Tedeeva, the head of the maternity ward of the Republic's Clinical Hospital (RCH), suspected of selling a newborn, into custody, said Eduard Gusov, Senior Assistant to the Head of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for North Ossetia.

Representatives of 58 non-profit organizations (NPOs) of Russia have sent a letter to President Vladimir Putin, asking him to publish a full list of organizations receiving funding from abroad.

The Company "IDS Borjomi", which produces and sells mineral water "Borjomi", was sent an official notification with a permit to import its products to the territory of Russia, the "Rospotrebnadzor" has reported.

Today, the Moscow City Court (MCC) has rejected an appeal lodged by the defence of the suspects in the murder case of former Colonel Yuri Budanov against the dismissal of the jury.

The exhibition named "Shades of Circassian" was opened in Moscow representing paintings, drawings, photographs and crafts of Circassian authors. The exhibition was organized to give the Moscow public an opportunity to see the Circassian contemporary arts, said the organizers.

Women and children are recommended to leave the village of Gimry, Untsukul District of Dagestan, as the village is under a special operation, say local residents.

The theologian Talekh Bagirzade, accused of illegal drug possession, has been left in custody by the decision of the Baku Appeal Court (BAC). The consideration of the complaint of the Bagirzade's defence about application of torture to Talekh has been postponed indefinitely.

Today, the officials of the Makhachkala-based "Express" Bank lodged a lawsuit on invalidating the orders of the Central Bank of Russia on recalling the license for banking operations and appointment of the temporary administration of the bank, as Kamil Muradov, the chairman of the society in defence of rights of depositors and shareholders, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Today in Volgograd, Communists held another picket in front of the City Duma with a demand to hold a universal election of the Mayor. The action was attended by about 50 people.

The Krasnodar Territorial Court has announced a verdict for the murder in Sochi of the war veteran Antonina Mayevskaya and stealing her military decorations and property. All the three defendants were found guilty of the murder and sentenced to long – from 10 to 17 years – terms of imprisonment.

The territory of the training ground of the 102nd Russian Military Base in Gyumri, where a blast of ammunition killed two children, has no fencing and no warning signs. This was stated by Levon Barsegyan, the chairman of the Gyumri Journalists' Club "Asparez", who added that the access to the ground is open to outsiders, and the ground itself is full of unexploded ordnance.

Residents of the village of Ditsi, Gori District of Georgia filed a complaint with the prosecutor's office and lodged a lawsuit to the court about the illegal, as they consider, sale of 140 hectares of land to farmers from India.

Today, about 100 defrauded housing shareholders (people who had invested into flats, but received nothing) of the "Centre Point" Company tried to hold a protest action in Tbilisi; however, the action was stopped by the police intervention.

Yakub Mankiev, a son of the former Minister of Agriculture Ingushetia, who was killed during the recent counterterrorist operation (CTO), was buried into the cemetery of the village of Dolakovo, said Yakub's uncle Magomed Darsigov.

Valentina Tedeeva, the deputy chief physician of the Republic's Clinical Hospital (RCH) for the obstetric care, suspected of selling a newborn baby, is in the intensive care unit of the first aid hospital of Vladikavkaz, said Elbrus Fidarov, the chief doctor of the medical facility.

Law enforcers of Volgograd have searched apartments of five civil society activists, said Leonid Makhinya, an activist of the regional branch of "The Other Russia".

Georgia will be able to export to Russia about a million bottles of wine already in 2013; while the annual country's output makes 10 million litres of wine, said Levan Davitashvili, the head of the Georgia's National Wine Agency.

Today, the city of Ust-Labinsk, Krasnodar Territory, is opening rehabilitation and adaptation centre for minor businesses intended for former prisoners and people who occurred in difficult life situations. As part of the project, the participants will be provided with psycho-social, legal and educational assistance.

The defence Hilal Mamedov, the editor-in-chief of the "Tolyshi Sado" newspaper, accused of inciting interethnic hatred, has petitioned about invitation to the trial of the experts, who had provided their linguistic conclusion. The court has satisfied the petition of the defence.