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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.

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.