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On July 30, a mosque restored on public donations, was opened in aul Tkhagapsh, Lazarevskoe District of Sochi, as reported by Tatiana Katanidi, specialist of the department for interaction with law enforcement bodies and public organizations of the administration of Sochi.

As reported by the human rights defender himself, the investigation of the criminal case against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", for slandering President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov is over.

The beating of Timur Tskhovrebov, chairman of the public organization "Union of Ex-Combatants of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO)", is categorically contradictory to those democratic values, pursued by South Ossetia, said Lira Kozaeva-Tskhovrebova, director of the Resource Centre of South-Ossetian NGOs and chair of the association of women of South Ossetia for democracy and defence of human rights.

On July 29, the Board of the Bar of Dagestan disseminated a statement listing the facts of violence applied to lawyers in the republic and demanding to guarantee their safety and access to their clients. The statement was sent to the Minister of Internal Affairs Ali Magomedov and Public Prosecutor of Dagestan Andrei Nazarov.

President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev has accepted retirement of Ella Pamfilova, chair of the Human Rights Board under the President. This was reported by the Kremlin's press service.

The "Rosprirodnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Nature Supervision) made checks of the construction progress of Olympic objects in Sochi and revealed 25 violations of the nature protection legislation, on which fact administrative cases were initiated.

Experts are unanimous that the 12th round of Geneva Debates on safety and stability in Transcaucasia was not in much different from the previous ones in its futility.

In the city of Malgobek (Ingushetia), tonight a car was shelled, and an agent of the OBEP (Division for Fighting Economic Crime) of the Malgobek ROVD (District Interior Division) was killed.

Today in the morning, an explosive device was triggered in the beach of the capital of Dagestan and wounded a woman.

On July 29, a group of Azerbaijani journalists visited the villa in Mardakyan settlement in the vicinity of Baku, where on the previous day - July 28 - their colleagues - Elmin Badalov, a reporter of the newspaper "Eni Musavat", and Anar Geraily, deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Milli Yol", - were beaten. Near the place of the incident journalists were met by securities who said the villa belongs to "some foreigner."

President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov was critical to the offer of Vladimir Shvetsov, Deputy Plenipotentiary of Russian President of Russia in the NCFD, on the need to develop the code of behaviour for young people of the regions of Northern Caucasus.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by Kakha Kukava, Secretary General of the Conservative Party, that since the end of the Georgian-Abkhazian war 90,000 refugees from Abkhazia live in Tbilisi.

In Moscow, the Meschanskiy Court ruled to place Magomed Patiev, а native of Ingushetia, who caused a flight delay at the Moscow Domodedovo Airport, into custody.

Under updated information, the explosion triggered today in the afternoon in central Grozny wounded six persons, the regional department of the Russian ICPO reports.

The Passport and Visa Service (PVS) of the MIA of the Republic of Abkhazia has started issuing Abkhazian passports for travels abroad. Valery Maliya, head of the PVS, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that first 39 passports were issued on July 29.

The statement of President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili addressed to customs workers had no implied sense of racial discrimination, said Manana Mandzhgaladze, his press secretary.

Two Azerbaijani journalists - Elmin Badalov, a correspondent of the newspaper "Eni Musavat" (New Musavat), and Anar Geraily, deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Milli Yol" (National Way), were beaten yesterday, on July 28, in Mardakyan village in the vicinities of Baku. It happened when journalists were making photos of luxurious private residences located in the "rich men's district" of the village.

In the city of Novorossisk, Krasnodar Territory, nine members of the crew of the trading ship "REF-607", sailing under the guise of Moldova, refuse to get ashore for the second week already. The owner of the ship that brought goods to the Black Sea shore owes about 60,000 US dollars to the crew.

Journalists of North Ossetia have signed-in in support of their colleague Timur Tskhovrebov, who was attacked and beaten in South Ossetia, and sent an open appeal to the republic's authorities.

Tamara Karastelyova, an activist from the Novorossisk Human Rights Committee (NHRC), who is treated for the fourth month for leukaemia in the capital of Georgia, needs monetary help.