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As reported by the press service of the KGB of South Ossetia, on July 18, six citizens of Georgia were detained by servicemen of the Frontier Department of the Russian FSB in South Ossetia for illegal border crossing in the Znaur District of this republic.

The main prize of the 7th International Film Festival "Golden Apricot" was awarded to the Turkish film director Rekha Erdem for his film "Space".

Ambulances are called to the teachers holding their protest hunger strike several times in day: three of them were offered hospitalization; the condition of one more protester causes special doctor's alarm - if sugar in his blood will drops by one point more, he is under threat of coma. Despite it, none of the 19 persons who take part in the hunger strike is going to stop the action.

An extraordinary session of the government and parliament of South Ossetia made a decision to announce July 20 the mourning day on the victims of the bus falling in to the abyss from the Trans-Caucasian Highway (know as "Transkam") on July 18.

The first batch of Abkhazian passports for travels abroad made in Russia was brought to Sukhumi.

The children football team "Locomotive-NCRW" (North-Caucasian Railways) from the capital of Dagestan has won the third place in the prestigious international tournament, which was held in the Austrian city of Wels this July.

On July 18, the delegation of Abkhazia headed by President Sergey Bagapsh has arrived with the first official visit to the city of Managua, the capital of Nicaragua.

On July 16, the authorities started forcing residents out of their houses in the area, where Olympic objects will be built. This week, the Adler District Court has issued enforcement orders. Those who failed to buy new homes are accommodated in boarding houses.

On his way to Nicaragua with his first official visit, President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh made a stop in Cuba. He will come to Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, on Sunday in the morning.

Today in Almaty, Azerbaijan and Armenia again stated their mutual reproaches. Elmar Mamedyarov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, said that he doubts of Armenia's aspiration to settle the Karabakh conflict. In its turn, Armenia accused Baku of pursuing destructive policy.

Today in Baku, adherents of the freedom of speech and activists of democratic public of Azerbaijan commemorated Elmar Guseinov, editor-in-chief of the magazine "Monitor", who was killed on March 2, 2005; on July 17 he would have been 43.

Turkey has decided to temporarily open its border with Armenia for surface transportation of the military machinery to be used during NATO exercises in Armenia planned for September 11-17.

Today at night, Emik Chakmach-Ogly, head of the Gagra branch of the Spiritual Authority of Moslems of Abkhazia and a member of the republic's public chamber, was shot dead.

After long torrential rains in Kakhetia, in the east of Georgia, one more district - the Dedoplistskaro one - was flooded. The village of Tsiteltskaro suffered from flooded motorways and ground floors, and lost plenty of livestock and poultry. There are no casualties among the population.

Activists of the Rostov-based branch of the "Laft-Wing Front" are going to send their protest to the Constitutional Court against the Law "On Amending the Regional Law 'On Guarantees to Administration Head'". This was stated by activists on July 15.

A lieutenant colonel of one of power agencies, two children and two women were wounded by the explosion of a self-made bomb, which was triggered under a passenger car in Nart-Kala village.

Today Presidents of Abkhazia and South Ossetia Sergey Bagapsh and Eduard Kokoity leave for their first official visit to Nicaragua and Venezuela, where they plan to sign interstate agreements in various areas.

In the evening on July 15, the first channel of the Belarusian state television showed an exclusive interview with President of Georgia, in which Mikhail Saakashvili answered the questions on modernization of Georgia, whether it is possible to reconcile Tbilisi and Moscow, when Georgia would join the European Union, about South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and even about his gastronomic preferences.

The investigation continues considering involvement of Alkhazur Bashaev, killed in November 2009, as the main version of the murder of Natalia Estemirova; and it is not clear whether the evidences of employees of the "Memorial" were taken into account, as Alexander Cherkasov, a member of the Board of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The authorities of Dubai have answered to the request of law enforcement bodies of the Russian Federation about the fate of Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the special battalion of the GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff) "Vostok" (East).