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The noise-protection screens around the Olympic construction in Sochi, which Vladimir Vasilenko, Deputy Chief Engineer of the Closed Joint-Stock Company (CJSC) "PRiSS" promised to install till July 26, have not been established yet. According to resident of the city, till present, no noise-protection screens are installed, despite the fact that the construction works are going on.

Shoger Matevosyan, the editor-in-chief of the Armenian newspaper "Fourth Power" has stated that she is not afraid of the lawsuit, filed by blogger Tigran Kocharyan to court against her newspaper. Date of the court at the suit is still unknown.

On July 25, members of the human rights movement "Veche of Mineralnye Vody" informed the regional media about the start of the indefinite hunger strike, demanding the dismissal of the Mayor. According to the protesters, the hunger strike was reasoned by the consequences of the flooding in the city of Mineralnye Vody, which damaged more than 100 house ownerships of local residents.

On July, 25, Central district court of Sochi validated the judgment of the magistrate's court of calling Irina Brovkina to administrative account for holding a meeting. In this way, the activist’s appeal against the verdict of the magistrate's court was dismissed.

On July, 25, after more than a three-week break trial on the case of Editor-in-Chief of “Khural” newspaper Avaz Zeinalov under the chairmanship of judge Ramella Allahverdieva recommenced in the court for grave crimes of Baku.

In the evening of July, 24, resident of Kaspiysk Nutsi Aliev aged 32 disappeared in Dagestan, his wife Mariana Alieva reported.

Leader of oppositional coalition “The Georgian Dream” billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili paid a fine of 74,3 million lari (about 45,6 million dollars) and sum of execution to 5,2 million lari (about 3,2 million dollars) imposed by the court in full, Besik Liluashvili, representative of PR service of National Sentence-implementation agency of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, reported.

The court granted a motion of viewing a video record of sufferer Zelmhan Chitigov’s evidence at a trial on the case of ex-employees of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Ingushetia accused of using torture against the detainees.

The defense of Sergey Arakcheev, ex-officer of Inner Troops of the Ministry of Interior Affairs who fought in Chechnya, sentenced to 15 years of custody for accusation of murder of three peaceful residents of Chechnya in January of 2003 appealed against the law “On state forensic expert activities” in the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.

Non-governmental organization “Transparency International – Georgia” made public its survey of the current year’s state budget. This data is open and published by mass media. The authors of the survey presented on July, 20, draw public attention to “politically motivated expenditures from state budget of the country”.

A meeting of young Russian and Georgian political scientists and experts in international relations is currently in process in Tbilisi within the framework of a program “Russian-Georgian dialogue for peace and cooperation” organized by Center of cultural interrelation the “Caucasian Home”. The participants already point out the importance of exchange of views and perception of the present-day situation with the relations between the two countries.

A reception point of ”Migration and Right” network recently opened in Sochi will be consulting migrant workers and rendering them legal aid. This was reported by Coordinator of the reception Semen Simonov.

After the presidential election oppositional forces in Nagorno-Karabakh intend to organize themselves and go on struggle, Masis Maiylyan, Chairman of Social Council for foreign policy and security of Nagorno-Karabakh, declared. The need for real opposition has boiled up in the community, sociologist David Karabekyan considers.

The meeting of the lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, who is defending Anvar Guseinov, a resident of Dagestan, who complained that employees of the Khasavyurt ROVD (District Interior Division) had beaten him, with the local Minister of Internal Affairs has been scheduled for July 26.

Roland Kelekhsaev, the leader of the People's Party of South Ossetia, blames the local Ministry of Justice of biased attitude and expresses his dissatisfaction with the statements of the Minister Murat Vaneev, who has treated the situation around the party as their internal conflict. This was the topic of Mr Kelekhsaev's letter to the Minister submitted on July 23.

As declared today by Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the decision to introduce the state of emergency in connection with heavy rains in Krymsk was falsified: the document about the allegedly made decision was drawn up in the morning on July 7.

Today, the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Georgia has expressed protest to organizers of the Olympic Games in London, because in the data on two athletes of the Russian national team, posted on the official website of Olympic Games, Abkhazia and South Ossetia are indicated as the territory of Russia.

At the first hearing on the merits of Rasul Mirzaev's case, held today at the Zamoskvoretsky District Court, the prosecutor Yulia Zotova has announced the indictment, followed by questioning of the victims – Tatiana and Alexander Agafonov and their daughter Olga Agafonova.

Zalimgeri Khagasov, the Mayor of the city of Nalchik, plans to challenge at the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria the decision to suspend him from office. Now, Zalimgeri Khagasov is officially on the labour vacation.

Oleg Shein, the former candidate for the position of Mayor of Astrakhan, received the decisions of the Trusov and Kirov District Courts, pronouncing full dismissal of the claims for cancellation of the election, held on March 4.