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At present, only 8 people of 271 families of the inhabitants of Gonio village of Khelvachauri District of Autonomous Republic of Adzharia of Georgia, whose lands, given to them in private ownership by the authorities' decision several years ago, have been seized, are at litigation with the authorities.

Participants of the conference "Motherland and Faith" in Stepanakert city (Nagorno-Karabakh) have accused a number of non-traditional Christian religious movements in violation of human rights and implementation of "undermining the political system with financing from abroad". In turn, believers offered to compose a list of features defining the concept of the "sect".

The Russian Federation is planning to allot 6,81 billion rubles on realization of an Investment program of assistance to South Osetia in 2011. This was reported by Minister of Regional Development Victor Basargin at a session of Intergovernmental Committee of the Russian Federation and South Osetia on July, 19.

The suspects of a rape of an underage girl in the settlement of Nartan, Kabardino-Balkaria, state that they had sexual relationship with her by her approbation, Chegem District Department of Interior Affairs reported. The girl’s mother says that the reason for this torture was her being a newcomer and does not deny that her daughter is a “screwed-up kid”.

Members of the Public Council of North Caucasus Federal District (NCFD) expressed their indignation about beating of Ibragim Yaganov, a member of the Council and a leader of the public movement "Khase", in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, and appealed to the leader of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) to take the investigation into the incident under his personal control.

At a meeting with the leaders of the Special Investigatory Service of Armenia Axel Fischer, a co-rapporteur of the PACE Monitoring Committee, stressed the importance of creating an atmosphere of confidence around the investigation of events of March 1, 2008.

Sergey Klimuk, a former FSB agent, serving a sentence for organizing an explosion at Cherkizovo marketplace in 2008, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, requests to declare unconstitutional the provision of law prohibiting an appeal against a guilty verdict of the jury court.

In Dagestan power agents detained brothers Ibragim and Salman Seferbekov on suspicion of murdering on July 9 the principal of the school in Sovietskoe village. In the houses of the suspected explosives and ammunition were found, which, according to the brothers' relatives, had been "planted".

The Soviet District Court of the Stavropol Territory passed a sentence upon three brothers named Gafurov, who were figuring in the case on engagement in a conflict with Cossacks in the city of Zelenokumsk in November 2010. Two brothers were sentenced to imprisonment terms, and the third one was acquitted.

During the first six months of this year in Chechnya 30 members of the armed underground were killed, 79 militants and their accomplices were detained, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

The independent TV Company "GALA", which broadcasts from the city of Gyumri, the second largest city in Armenia, will not fulfil the decision of the Court of Cassation to dismantle the equipment from the TV tower, until the company gets a possibility to operate from another TV tower, said Vaan Khachatryan, the owner of the TV Company.

On July, 19, hearings on the case of six activists of the opposition accused of violation of public order during an unauthorized meeting of Civil Movement for Democracy “Public Chamber” (CMDPC) on April, 2, in the center of Azerbaijani capital started in Sabaiil court of Baku.

On July, 20, former street traders held a new action of protest in the capital of Armenia, near the Mayor’s office. They state that after prohibition of street trading it has become difficult to support their families because of outrageous prices on the city market tolls. The traders are going to hold a series of hunger strikes near governmental buildings of Yerevan.

During the last several days a growth of the number of recourses of the citizens to medical institutions was registered in Chechnya. Physicians explain it by the heat that established in the republic. Republican Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reports that a heat of 40 degrees is expected in the nearest three days in the territory of Chechnya which may result is extraordinary accidents.

Today, the Sumgait Court of Appeal, chaired by Judge Lyatifa Mamedova, has continued considering the complaint of Jabbar Savalan, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA).

In Kabardino-Balkaria, investigators have presented charges to three villagers of Nartan, Chegem District, suspected of raping an underage girl.

An original protest action against corruption in Azerbaijan was held today by local civil society activists in Baku in front of the office of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD). They sent balloons into the sky with quotations from the speeches of President Ilham Aliev on combating corruption.

Today, under chairmanship of Rizvan Kurbanov, Deputy Prime Minister, a sitting of the commission for adaptation of members of the armed underground of Dagestan took place, where it was decided to ask investigators not to put Seidula Kazanalipov, a surrendered resident of the Botlikh District, behind bars.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has satisfied the lawsuit filed by Kameta Khashueva, the mother of Mamed Bagalaev, who was accidentally killed during a special operation of Russian power agents and ordered Russia to pay 45,000 euros to her.

The second quarter of 2011, as compared with the first one, saw an increase in the number of cases of pressure on journalists in Armenia. This was reported today at a press conference by Ashot Melikyan, Chairman of the Committee to Protect Freedom of Speech. According to his story, while during the first three months there were no incidents of violence against journalists, there were already two such cases in the second quarter of 2011.