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One of the passengers of a fixed-route taxi in Makhachkala told Magomed Yusupov, a resident of the village of Khutrakh, Tsuntin District, that on June 24 he became an involuntary eyewitness of kidnapping of the latter's nephew, Davud Israpilov by unidentified men in civilian clothes.

Today, the Kirov Federal Court of Makhachkala has held the first session on the claim of the local prosecutor's office about illegal construction of residential blocks near the so-called "Russian Cemetery".

The State Museum of GULAG History, located in Petrovka Street in Moscow, has hosted the presentation of the French version of the book, written by Sozryko Malsagova (1895-1976), a native of Ingushetia and an officer of the Russian Tsarist Army, and entitled "The Hell Island". The book was released in April this year in Paris by the publisher Francois Bourin Editeur. The book tells about the Soviet concentration camp, known as SLON (Special-Purpose Solovki Camp).

The names of the members of the armed underground, who were killed today in a special operation in Kizilyurt, have become known. They are Arthur Dalgatov, born in 1985, and his common-law wife Aminat Darbisheva, born in 1990, said the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan.

The Tbilisi City Court has sentenced, under the motion of the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office of Georgia, in absentia Irakli Okruashvili, ex-Minister of Defence and co-chair of the "Georgian Party", to two months of custody as a preventive measure of liberty deprivation.

The information that the leader of North-Caucasian armed underground Dokku Umarov is hiding somewhere in the Djeirakh District of Ingushetia may be directed at disrupting the resort projects to be implemented in the area, said Ruslan Khautiev, a local political analyst.

Chechnya continues investigating the killing of two sisters, the youngest of whom was 15 years old. The bodies of the girls were sent to examination, the local law enforcers assert. Their father who confessed of murdering one of the daughters by negligence is under threat of up to 20 years in prison.

Development of diving tourism and realization of a project of underwater biological multiformity has started in Georgia.

On September, 11, a referendum on the status of the Russian language will be held in South Osetia. The respective edict of President Edward Kokoiti came into effect and was published on June, 29, in state mass media.

There are currently 20 persons injured as a result of the explosion of a gas bottle in Moscow clinics, two of them in the resuscitation department.

Today, at 9:00 p.m., Albina Arkaeva, born in 1962, who received serious burning injuries in the explosion of gas cylinder in Vladikavkaz on 25 June, died in Moscow hospital, reported Irbek Doev, the spokesperson of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania in Moscow.

On June 28 about 400 residents of the city of Zverevo of Rostov Region started a rally against the closure of the emergency medical service at the central city hospital.

The law enforcement authorities of Chechnya have instituted a criminal case against the director of the Petroleum College of the Grozny State Technical University, who is suspected of taking bribes.

On June 28 in the evening the authorities of Azerbaijan expelled from the country a Bloomberg employee, who was detained at Baku Airport, said a source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the republic.

In the city of Salsk of Rostov Region Judge Marina Fedyakova recognized a number of materials of the religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses as extremist and rejected the request of the defendant's lawyers to question a linguist witness and to make a repeated psycho-linguistic-religious examination.

Today, the Tver Court of Moscow rejected the claim of the relatives of the schoolchildren lost in Yeysk Spit, containing demand of compensation for material damages. As the lawyer Igor Trunov, who represents the families of the deceased, said, the court's decision would be appealed.

Today Magomed Yusupov, a resident of the village of Khutrakh of Tsuntin District of Dagestan, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about disappearance of his nephew Davud Israpilov, which occurred on June 24. According to Magomed Yusupov, earlier, Davud has been repeatedly summoned for questioning in the OVD (Interior Division) of the Tsuntin District.

The Civil Movement for Democracy "Public Chamber" (CMDPC) intends to continue protests demanding democratic reforms in Azerbaijan. This was announced on June 28 by Isa Gambar, a member of the Coordinating Council of the CMDPC, a leader of the party "Musavat".

The law enforcement authorities of Azerbaijan detained the fourth suspect in beating on 15 June in Baku of Amanda Erickson, an American journalist, and Celia Davis, a British human rights activist. This is Nazim Khuseinov, a resident of Babak District of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR). All four detainees said that they did not know who the girls were and that initially they wanted to get acquainted with them.

Residents of Chechnya hardly trust in the official agencies, which activity is aimed at human rights protection, and out of 200 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating in the country only the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" faces the relative confidence of the population. These are the results of a questioning survey conducted by the Caucasian independent magazine "Dosh".