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The Court of Appeal of the Odessa Region has made the final decision to extradite to Russia Ilya Pyanzin, a citizen of Kazakhstan, suspected of planning the assassination of Russian President Vladimir Putin. This was announced by Elena Abramova, Spokesperson of the Prosecutor's Office of the Odessa Region.

The Iranian court will announce its decision in the case against Farid Gusein and Shakhriyar Gadjizade, young Azerbaijani poets, within 15-20 days. According to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, this was announced today by Elman Abdullaev, Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Azerbaijan.

Tamara Gorbakova, a resident of Malgobek, claims that her husband Rustam Evloev, who worked as an inspector of the Road-and-Post Service (known as DPS) in the Nazran District of Ingushetia, was kidnapped by unidentified armed persons, while he was with his relatives in Chechnya.

At present, water completely left houses in the flooded village of Novomikhailovsky of the Tuapse District of the Krasnodar Territory. According to the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), about 1500 persons, 570 houses, 14 children's camps, a hospital, a school, and a kindergarten are in the area of the flooding. Many residents of the coastal village believe that the flooding was caused by cluttered bed of the Nechepsukho River.

In Saint Petersburg, a group of unidentified persons attacked fans of the "Anji" FC, who intended to go to Moscow to visit the upcoming match between the Makhachkala FC and the "AZ" FC. This was reported by Ramadan Gaziev, the head of the "Dikaya Diviziya" (Wild Division) fan club of the "Anji" FC.

The Investigatory Committee of Dagestan has prepared an indictment against five police officers within the criminal investigation of the shelling in 2006 of Sapiyat Magomedova and Gasan Baisultanov. This was reported by a source from the Republic's Investigatory Committee.

Today, the verdict in the case against Elena Spasskaya and Mikhail Batrakov, which was challenged by the lawyers of the convicted persons at the judicial panel on criminal cases of the Krasnodar Regional Court, was left unchanged.

Today, in the village of Dugulubgei of the Baksan District of Kabardino-Balkaria, Murat Abazov and Arthur Abazov were kidnapped. This was reported by Eduard Abazov, a resident of the republic, who appealed to law enforcement agencies and human rights defenders, asking to help locate whereabouts of his son and nephew.

Today, the Predgorny District Court of the Stavropol Territory held a preliminary session on the criminal case against the former district police inspectors Sergey Petrov, Nikolai Kryazhov, Vadim Akhmedov, and Alexei Golovachev, accused of beating Vyacheslav Merekha, a local resident. The case will be considered behind closed doors. This was reported by the court office.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, Rustam Guchapshev, a resident of the village of Dugulubgei of the Baksan District, claims that today he was followed, and therefore, he has appealed to law enforcement agencies and human rights defenders, since he fears of kidnapping.

According to Sergey Semushin, the lawyer of the Volgograd regional public organization "Mothers' Law", in Volgograd, leaflets entitled "Wanted", pasted on poles, with details of the recruits and their parents violate the Federal Law "On Personal Data". The Volgograd police refute any involvement in the appearance of those announcements.

In Stavropol, as a result of the shooting at the "Yuzhny" (Southern) marketplace, 5 persons were brought to the city hospital No. 4. This was reported by the hospital's front desk. One more wounded person was delivered to the regional hospital. Automatic weapons were used in the shooting. Eyewitnesses state that the attackers called themselves the "polar bears".

The Judicial Chamber for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the verdict against 24-year-old Victor Dvorakovskiy and Vladimir Skirko, his 25-year-old accomplice, residents of the Stavropol Territory, accused of preparing a terror act and of extremism. This was reported today by the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation.

Today, the Baku Court of Appeal (BCA), chaired by Judge Gasan Akhmedov, considered the appeal of Shakhin Gasanli, the head of the organizational division of the People's Front of Azerbaijan on conditional early relief (CER). Gasanli and his lawyer intend to challenge the refusal of CER at the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan.

Rainfall, which caused flooding in the Tuapse District of the Krasnodar Territory, left residents of several villages without electricity. About 11,000 persons have no electricity. Three out of four victims of the flooding in the village of Novomikhailovsky have been already identified. The village of Defanovka is also in the area of the flooding.

In the Tskhinvali District of South Ossetia, rainfall with large hail affected local residents, involved in gardening, and tore roofs off houses in two dwelling settlements. This was reported by Valery Bibilov, Deputy Chief of the district administration.

At the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Georgia, the leading political parties will provide for quotas for women, which were approved legislatively on recommendation of the Venice Commission.

At the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), where earlier Albert Khubiev, 24, sewed up his mouth and went on hunger strike, he stopped his protest action.

The Chechen native Adam Osmaev, the main suspect in the case of plotting an attempt on Russian President Vladimir Putin, has filed an application for political asylum in Ukraine.

Magomed Kazimagomedov, the head of the rural settlement Lyakhlya in Dagestan, was killed by gunfire, said the spokesman for the Investigatory Committee for Dagestan of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).