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Tomorrow, on August 3, the Moscow City Court will select a jury for consideration of the case on the murder of Yegor Sviridov, a fan of the "Spartak" Football Club, in last December. The jury selection will take place behind closed doors, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by the press service of the Moscow City Court.

The executive power of Baku shall give to the public a general work plan of the Azerbaijani capital's development, on the basis of which the construction works are currently conducted in the city. This decision was adopted on August 1 by the Baku Administrative and Economic Court.

Sergey Evloev, a 19-year-old resident of Makhachkala, who had been earlier twice kidnapped, was detained by the police officers form the OVD (Interior Division) of the Leninsky District of the Dagestani capital on suspicion of illegal keeping of weapons. This was told by lawyer Ziyavdin Uvaisov to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Salman Tepshaev and Arthur Sakaev, natives of the Naur District of Chechnya, who had been detained in Astrakhan on July 29 by the power agents, were brought to the republic.

The 8th graduation of the course participants of the business centre was held in the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia. Organizers note that now the residents of the District come to learn doing business consciously.

The Kanavino District Court of Nizhny Novgorod granted the lawsuit of the charity fund of the soldiers' mothers "Mother's Right" against the district administration of the Pension Fund (PF) of the Russian Federation, which rejected monthly cash pensions to four widows of servicemen killed in Chechnya.

On August, 1, an international youth project “Kunachestvo” (“Friendship”) started in Kabardino-Balkaria. It means that a teenager of one ethnic group goes to live in a family representing another one and becomes its guest.

The authorities of Adygeia together with environmental groups will seek ways of solving ecologic problems connected with development of “Lagonaki” health resort. For this purpose a work group of ecologic escort of the project “Development of a special economic tourist an recreation zone “Lagonaki” in the territory of Maikop district of the Republic of Adygeia” was formed.

A resident of the stanitsa of Orjonikidzevskaya, Sunzha district of Ingushetia, reports kidnapping of his son Ibrahim Khashiev by armed people. The Ministry of Interior Affairs of Ingushetia does not confirm the fact of kidnapping.

Start of election race in Abkhazia; Dagestan: disputable outcomes of special operation, economic forum and murder of head of President's press service; natural fires in Rostov Region, and, probably, criminal origin of fires in central Astrakhan, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the week of July 25-31, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Deputies of the rural settlement of Plievo in Ingushetia sent complaints to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation and the European Parliament in connection with "the Ingush leader's intervention in the activities of the municipality".

The city citizens, whose real estates are alienated for construction of the Olympic infrastructure instead, are dissatisfied with compensation amounts.

The maximum protection level of a new generation identity card – ID card – is provided, in particular, by the code and password known only to the ID's owner. This was reported by Valery Tkeshelashvili, a staff member of the service for the technologies and management of the civil registry of the Georgian Ministry of Justice.

On August 3, the tunnel "Gimry-Chirkata" will be completely closed for the passage of vehicles and the construction works will be started in it. This was reported today by Rizvan Gazimagomedov, Deputy Prime Minister of Dagestan. He addressed residents of the nearby districts asking not to organize protests in that connection.

Ruslan Poshev, a resident of the village of Dongaron of the Prigorodny District of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, who had disappeared on this May 14, was still not on the federal wanted list. This was reported by his wife Marina Posheva. Representatives of the authorities and investigators say they are investigating the disappearance of Poshev and have initiated by this fact the criminal cases under the articles of murder and kidnapping.

The KVN (Club of Funny and Inventive) "Narty from Abkhazia" failed to participate in the festival "Golosyaschiy KiViN-2011" (Singing KiViN Bird) in Jurmala because of the refusal of visas by the Latvian party. This was reported today by Vianor Bebiya, the team leader, on his arrival from Moscow.

In Chechnya, the Muslim holy month of Ramadan will begin on August 2, a day later than in the entire Muslim world. This decision was adopted by the Republic's Muftiat. Some believers are discontent with that decision.

During excavations of Sarai-Batu, the Golden Horde's capital, situated near the village of Selitrennoye of the Kharabali District of the Astrakhan Region, archaeologists from the cities of Astrakhan and Yoshkar-Ola discovered rare findings belonging to a medieval child.

The European Court of Human Rights for the first time in its practice concerning Northern Caucasus demanded from the Russian Federation to take urgent and concrete measures to secure safety of Tamerlan Suleimanov kidnapped in Grozny this May.

A preparatory session on the case of four oppositional activists made criminally liable for participation in an unauthorized meeting with the demand of democratic reforms on April, 2, in the capital of Azerbaijan is appointed on August, 12, in Sabaiil district court of Baku.