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The Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) is investigating the circumstances of disappearance in Dagestan of two young children of Vitali Razdobudsko and Maria Khorosheva. According to investigators, the kids were kidnapped by the members of the armed underground.

Adygea was visited by Munir Sobrok, a Jordanian MP, local public activists report. According to their story, the aim of the visit was to study the situation in the republic in the context of the readiness of the King of Jordan Abdullah II to help Syrian Circassians who wish to move from Syria and Jordan to Adygea.

On July 13, the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) hosted an action "Give Me Life!" aimed at strengthening the family and preservation of family values and traditions. The action tried to draw attention to the issue of abortion.

Representatives of three oppositional political parties and civil society activists of Southern Caucasus are taking part in July 13-15 Tbilisi-based conference "Promoting freedom, peace and prosperity in the Caucasus".

The experts have found that the balloons, which exploded on May 4 in Yerevan during an election campaign rally, were filled with explosive methane, said Arsen Avakyan, the head of the division for especially important cases of the Main Investigation Department of the Police of Armenia.

The Barnaul Garrison Military Court sentenced regular soldier Ruslan Dobriev, a native of Ingushetia, to 2.5 years of imprisonment in a common security penal colony. He was found guilty of violation of the regulations with using of humiliation of dignity and inciting hatred with violence. This was reported by the Chief Military Investigatory Department.

At 3:00 p.m., in Dagestan, the website of the human rights organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights" has been hacked and blocked. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Svetlana Isaeva, NGO's Chair.

Representatives of a teenager, beaten at the police station of the village of Khebda of the Shamil District of Dagestan, are satisfied with the court's verdict of guilty to the police officer. Till present, representatives of the convicted police officer have not commented on his sentence.

The regional "Committee of Civil Initiatives", which is being established in the Stavropol Territory, prepares a number of projects, including "Centre for Civil Mutual Assistance", "School of Local Self-Administration", "Fair Trial", "Open Budget", and "Transparent Police". This was stated by members of the initiative group at the today's press conference.

Relatives of Magomed Ibragimov, who was kidnapped today in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, who had gathered near the building of the District Prosecutor's Office, were not able to file a complaint. Meanwhile, the Chief of the ROVD (District Interior Division) has reported that he is aware of the whereabouts of Magomed Ibragimov.

In the capital of Georgia, journalists of the "Maestro" TV Company held a protest action, demanding to cancel the decision of the Tbilisi City Court for arrest of satellite antennas, which the Company delivered for installation at the houses of villagers.

Abdulaziz Magomedgadjiev, who was killed during the special operation, held in Yuzhno-Sukhokumsk on June 8, had no weapons. This was stated by his father Khaidarbek Magomedgadjiev. He intends to prove in court that his son was not involved in the armed underground.

According to official statistics, presented to the UN by the Russian Federation, from 2007 to 2009, the Investigatory Committee of Chechen Republic received 427 complaints about disappearances of people and instituted criminal cases on 142 of them; however, none of them was brought to court.

During a meeting with relatives of defendants on the criminal case of blasting "Nevsky express" sentenced to long terms of custody Yunus-bek Evkurov promised his assistance in release of those whose guilt was unproven. For this reason the convicts' relatives put off the meeting of protest they were planning for a while.

An incident occurred in one of the military units dislocated in Baku as a result of which an ordinary soldier perished and one more got wounded.

Resident of Chechnya Hussein Badurgov aged 25 disappeared in Grozny on July, 12, in unexplained circumstances. Representatives of law enforcement bodies promise to verify all the versions of his disappearance, including the young man's possible joining the gunmen.

Alexander Lunin, Mayor of the town of Mikhailovsk, Stavropol region, suspended from office is suspected of taking a bribe of 2,5 million rubles. Yesterday, July, 12, Lunin was detained.

13 persons got injured on July, 12, as a result of a conflict between Bidzina Ivanishvili's coalition "Georgian Dream" and supporters of the authorities in a refugees' colony, the settlements of Karaleti.

Law enforcement agents tortured 26-year Akhmedkhan Aushev, who was detained during a special operation, held in Nazran on June 29. This was claimed by his lawyer Luiza Isaeva.

All victims of the flooding in the city of Krymsk of the Krasnodar Territory are identified, and five persons remain on the list of the missing persons. This was reported by the Chief Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Russian Federation in the Krasnodar Territory.