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The village of Vedzatkhevi of Dusheti District (Georgia), inhabited by 29 families, is isolated from the outside world for nine months already due to the landslides which damaged the only road. The local residents can reach the regional centre only on foot.

Arthur Badalyan, an Armenian citizen, who was captured in Azerbaijan, filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The complaint concerns the very fact of his capture, inhuman treatment and torture.

In general, keeping conditions in IVS (temporary isolation facilities) and SIZO (pre-trial prisons) of Ingushetia are satisfactory; however, there are some problems in air-conditioning and lighting of the wards, where prisoners are kept. This was found out by the commission of human rights activists and members of the Public Chamber.

The court session, finished in Yerevan on August 12 in the late evening, ruled to release on recognizance not to leave three oppositional activists arrested on August 9. The court announced the pre-trial restriction in regard to the other four activists – they would remain under custody.

On August 12, at the joint press conference in the city of Sukhumi, the Abkhazian presidential candidates determined their positions on the issue for republic's management system.

Khaibula Khaibulaev, a resident of the village of Karata of the Akhvakh District, appealed to Alexei Savrulin, Chief of the Investigatory Department of Dagestan, and Andrei Nazarov, Prosecutor of Dagestan, demanding to bring to criminal liability Labazan Derbishev, the head of the criminal investigation department of the OVD (Interior Division) of the Botlikh District, who beat him.

On August 12 the Volgograd Regional Court dismissed the cassation, which was filed by Anatoly Antontsev, Chairman of the City Duma of Mikhailovka, concerning the decision on the lawsuit against him, lodged by the journalists of the local newspaper "Novoe Vremya" (New Time).

On August 12 in Rostov-on-Don, representatives of the opposition held one more protest within the action "Day of Wrath".

Today, many of the refugees, who are now being evicted from Hotel "Abkhazia" in the Georgian capital, started to voluntarily leave the hotel. At the same time, other refugees, living in the hotel, organized another protest rally in Tbilisi.

Today in the afternoon, in the city of Khasavyurt, two unidentified persons have opened automatic fire at the people who were coming out of the local mosque and wounded two persons who later died.

The Advocates' Chamber of Armenia will try to initiate criminal prosecution of the power agents who have allegedly violated their rights at the police station. This was announced by Ruben Saakyan, Chairman of the Chamber.

One of the novelties of this summer in the capital of Azerbaijan was the appearance of cabs, the so-called "London taxis", which was differently treated by townspeople – both drivers and passengers.

As reported by the Chief Department for the Krasnodar Territory of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Russian Federation, mass checks conducted by policemen in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, within the last 24 hours resulted in 11 solved crimes and two detainees who had been on the federal search list.

On August 11, Arif Ganiev, acting deputy head of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan (IPA) for organizational issues, was detained in the city of Sumgait together with his son Yashar. On that very day, a spiritual figure Abdulah Suleimanov and Ramin Bairamov, editor of the website İslamazeri.az, were detained. The IPA has condemned the arrests in its statement.

Recently, certain foodstuffs have become more expensive in Chechnya. It happens despite the fact that prior to start of the Muslim sacred month of Ramadan republic's leaders had stated inadmissibility of food price increase and expressed their readiness to start regulating food prices.

During a campaign called “One-hundred-thousandth appeal to President of Azerbaijan” Center of Protection of Freedom of conscience and religion (DEVAMM) collected about 124 thousand signatures under a petition demanding to cancel the prohibition of wearing hijab in the schools of Azerbaijan.

In Kabardino-Balkaria where there is no Committee for adaptation of gunmen to peaceful life yet mothers of the participants of the underground decided to act on their own and prepared a video message to their sons asking them to surrender arms and come back home.

Six supposed gunmen killed in a special operation in Makhachkala on August, 11, women among them, have been identified, National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC) reported.

20 artists from Russia, Belarus and Armenia visited Nagorno-Karabakh within the framework of the First International Symposium “Armenian Palette”.

Municipal Council of Tbilisi has taken a decision of calculation of new tariffs on garbage disposal. Christian Democratic movement of Georgia traversed the decision of the Council in courts.