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Magomed Sulaev, a resident of Dagestan, who was detained on July 20 and whose relatives said that he had been kidnapped by unidentified persons, was found at the Khasavyurt ROVD (District Interior Division) and released. Mr Sulaev told his advocate that Anvar Guseinov, who was detained together with him, was severely beaten.

Two leading Russian human rights organizations – the "Memorial" and "For Human Rights" – are not going to refuse from foreign grants, despite the law that assumes the status of "a foreign agent" for non-commercial organizations (NCOs) funded from abroad. Human rights defenders also plan to challenge this law at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Two militants have been liquidated in a special operation in Dagestan. One of them is Temirbek Temirbekov, the leader of the so-called "Kizilyurt" grouping, law enforcers report.

Today, in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), in the course of operative-search actions, law enforcers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and FSB Department for the KBR have liquidated an alleged militant.

With the aim to reduce noise during construction of a sewer, conducted in Sochi by the Closed Joint-Stock Company (CJSC) "PRiSS", noise-protection screens will be installed, Vladimir Vasilenko, Deputy Chief Engineer of the Company said on July 20 during a meeting with Sochi residents.

It is desirable that the Armenian government could help the Syrian Armenians, who have arrived in Armenia, to solve the problems of housing and employment, Tigran Gaboyan, a Syrian writer of Armenian origin, said on July 20 at a press conference.

Relatives of two local residents kidnapped today from the mosque in the village of Bairam, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, announced their plans to hold a protest actions if the young men were not released by the morning of July 21.

The Magistrate Court of the Kirov District of Astrakhan has fined Alexander Kirpichenko, a participant of the action for preservation of greenery in the city Kremlin, by 20,000 roubles.

Anzor Utov, 21, a resident of the village of Kishpek, Baksan District, has stated his illegal detention, beating and use of torture against him by law enforcers. He asserts that policemen had planted pistol cartridges into his pocket and forced him to declare that he tried to shoot at them from the pistol he had allegedly received from an earlier killed member of the armed underground.

President of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov has signed a pardon of three Georgian citizens who had been kept in Tskhinvali prison. Shota Makharashvili, Georgy Mairamidze and Otar Djovakhi were set free.

The rescuers of emergency situations service of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Georgia retrieved dead bodies of Ukrainian Alpinists who perished on July, 17, while descending from Ushba mountain.

The Astrakhan Regional Court has repeatedly convicted ten officers of the Traffic Police (known as GIBDD) of the Regional Interior, who figured in the case of systematic bribe-taking and sentenced them to imprisonment for 3.5-8 years, the Regional Prosecutor's Office has reported today.

On July 19, with the sunset, the sacred month of Ramadan started. The first day of fasting began today, on July 20. It will last approximately until August 19. In many mosques in Southern Russia after the prayer "Taraweeh" (a desirable night namaz, executed during Ramadan), Muslims commended a prayer for the murdered Deputy Mufti of Tatarstan Waliullah Yakupov.

Central Election Committee (CEC) of Nagorno-Karabakh reports preliminary results of voting at the presidential election on July, 19, according to which as of 8:00, 66,70%, or 47 085 electors voted for the incumbent president Bako Saakyan.

On July, 19, "Aiazn" youth union held an action in Yerevan demanding from the Government to organize the process of repatriation of the Syrian Armenians duly.

The authorities of Novorossiysk assure that the townsmen were warned of possible natural disaster in proper time. Meanwhile, the residents of injured districts of Novorossiysk declare the contrary: the bodies of state authority issued no warning to the population.

On July 18, in Sochi, villagers of Kudepsta flatly refused - in the course of their meeting with the builders of the Kudepsta TPP (Thermal and Power Plant) - to compromise and allow building the facility.

A check conducted in the city of Mineralnye Vody has shown that the city infrastructure is not ready to confront the spread of high water, says the Prosecutor's Office of the Stavropol Territory.

Today, a nine-year-old boy was hospitalized in Ingushetia after a policeman occasionally shot at him from a submachine gun, said the spokesman of the Investigatory Department for Ingushetia of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova reports that her client, resident of Dagestan Abdurahman Djakaev suspected of illegal storage of arms, was unlawfully kept in custody. According to her, her client's custody term expired yesterday, July, 18, but he has not yet been released.