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Sovietsky and Trusovsky district courts of Astrakhan dismissed the lawsuits of annulment of the election of Head of the city of Mach, 4, submitted by ex-candidate for Mayor's office, member of "Fair Russia" party Oleg Shein, Shein himself reported today. So, the lawsuit of annulment of municipal election was dismissed by all the four district courts of Astrakhan.

On July, 18, the court in Tuapse acknowledged local resident Maxim Butov accused of blowout of a car belonging to activists of "Environmental Watch on North Caucasus" guilty during a trial on Suren Gazaryan and Evgeny Vitishko's case.

Prosecutor General's of Dubai exonerated Deputy of State Duma of the Russian Federation Adam Delimkhanov who in 2009 on the initiative of Dubai party was declared a wanted person by Interpol from all the charges. This was reported by Senator Ziyad Sabsabi.

The advocate Luiza Isaeva has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that her petition filed more than a week ago and requesting to hold a medical examination of Akhmedhan Aushev, a resident of Nazran, detained during a special operation in Ingushetia and exposed, according to the defence, to torture by power agents, has not been considered yet.

Angelina Belova, an 11-year-old girl has disappeared in the settlement of Tabachny, Maikop District of Adygea. The investigation does not rule out that the girl could be murdered.

Alexander Burdenko, an employee of the investigatory division of the MIA, accused of committing a traffic accident in Volgograd, has put part of responsibility on the driver of the second car, which participated in the accident.

By July 18, 700 local residents-flood victims managed to prove the fact of their residence in the flood area in Krymsk without registration. However, local courts also fix a wave of applications, which seem "doubtful" to them, local authorities report.

On July 18, residents of Sochi received a false message about an impending earthquake with a power of 9 points, expected around the midday. The Mayor Anatoly Pakhomov has treated this information as a provocation.

Two Ukrainian mountain climbers Dmitry Voloshin and Alexander Tarenin broke down and died during their descent from Mount Ushba in Georgia, Alexander Dikusarov, the spokesman of the Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), has reported.

At night on July 18, in the village of Sernovodskoe, Kursk District of the Stavropol Territory, a conflict burst out between servicemen of the 58th Army of the Southern Military District of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and local residents, which escalated into a fight.

Liza Umarova, the well-known Chechen singer, asked for political asylum in Finland. Liza Umarova explains her decision by the fact that she is afraid to live in the country that does not protect its citizens.

The Prosecutor of the Khunzakh District of Dagestan has approved an indictment against two employees of the Shamil ROVD (District Interior Division) Shamil Magomedaliev and Gamzat Nurudinov, accused of beating a teenager. Today, the case was transferred to the Khunzakh District Court.

Residents of the city of Krymsk, affected by the flood, report that they receive their compensations, despite the bureaucracy. Those who have confirmed their right to get assistance for loss of property in the amount of 150,000 roubles will receive money to their accounts until the end of the week, Alexander Tkachov, Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, has promised.

The large amount of water was brought to Krymsk by a whirlwind, suggested Nikolai Kondratenko, a member of the committee on agro-food policy and nature management of the Russian Council of Federation (CoF) and the former governor of the Krasnodar Territory, who was included into the commission of the CoF set up for studying the reasons of the tragedy. He believes that the large number of victims was caused by people's distrust in the warnings of the Russian Hydrometeorology Centre ("Rosgidromettsentr"), because earlier storm warnings announced in the region did not always come true.

The condition of six Turkish citizens and three residents of Adygea, taken to hospitals of the cities Adygeisk and Maikop with a suspected acute intestinal poisoning, is satisfactory, said the republic's Ministry of Public Health.

Resident of the settlement of Karabudakhkent, Karabudakhkent district of Dagestan, Magomednabi Nazhmudinov reports inaction of law enforcement bodies in investigation of the case of rape of his underage daughter. Representatives of the investigation report that the question of initiating a criminal case on Nazhmudinov's statement will be taken only after getting the results of forensic medical examination.

The City court of Tbilisi arrested three representatives of oppositional coalition "The Georgian Dream" for a three-month's term. The representatives of the coalition consider the verdict unlawful and are going to appeal against it in Strasbourg court.

Principals of two schools of the Achkhoi-Martan District of Chechnya are to face trial on charges of embezzling funds from using their official positions. They face 2-6 years of imprisonment.

The Tuapse District Court holds trial on the case of puncture of the tires of the car, belonging to an activist the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", committed on May 15 during the court session on the criminal case against ecologists Suren Gazaryan and Evgeny Vitishko.

In Yerevan, a pit was dug in the place of shops, dismantled in Abovyan Street. The Mayoralty states that no major construction is underway and that the works will soon be completed. Ecologists demand to stop the construction in the green area of the city.