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Today the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Abkhazia has registered three candidates for the presidency and respectively for the vice-presidency of the republic.

In Dagestan the case on the rape of an underage girl in the city of Khasavyurt will soon be brought to the court. This was reported by the official of the Investigatory Committee of Dagestan. According to the girl's mother, the psychological shock experienced by her daughter, has not yet passed.

In the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) of Azerbaijan Khyakimeldostu Mekhtiev, a local public activist, a regional correspondent of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), claims of incessant pressure on him. Khyakimeldostu Mekhtiev states that he is threatened by criminal prosecution.

A groups of rights defenders arrived in the city of Dagestanskie Ogni. The purpose of the visit is to explore the reasons why women become supporters of the illegal armed formations.

Chechen field commanders who refused to obey the organizer of the Caucasus Emirate Dokku Umarov a year ago resumed their oath to the leader of North-Caucasian armed underground. This news appeared at informational web resources supporting North-Caucasian gunmen.

A mosque in Grozny, Ahmat Kadyrov avenue, built last year was pulled down within the framework of a large-scale reconstruction of the main street of the capital of Chechnya. The municipal authorities decided that this small mosque would not fit into the new image of the main street of the town.

The trial on the appeal against the verdict to officers of District Department of Interior Affairs in Shamil district of Dagestan who were accused of beating up a fourteen-year-old boy in June, 2009, was deferred till August, 8.

On July 20 in Ingushetia, Zurab Kambulatovich Albogachiev, born in 1985, disappeared after being detained by law enforcement agents, his relatives report.

The damage to the private house, owned by residents of the village of Mutsalaul, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, was assessed at 70,000 roubles.

About 600 residents of the city of Razdan have addressed their letter to the Public Council under the President of Armenia asking not to launch the iron mine, located in close vicinity of the city.

Today, the village of Tsovkra, Kuli District of Dagestan, has hosted the traditional republican festival of tightrope walkers.

Today, officials of the National Security Agency (NSA) of Armenia have arrested Karen Megrabyan, born in 1980, a citizen of Armenia, who is suspected of having relations with the secret services of Azerbaijan.

Today in Novorossiysk city of Krasnodar Territory residents of different regions and cities gathered at a rally in support of human rights and freedoms of entrepreneurs, property owners and victims of raiding. In total, according to the preliminary calculations, about hundred people took part in the rally.

The public organization "Circassian Congress" made a statement concerning the attack on Ibragim Yaganov, Chairman of the Public Movement "Khase" of Kabardino-Balkaria.

Six Sochi residents in two cars drove around the cities where the Olympic Games had been held at different times. The Russians were interested in experience of the use of the Olympic facilities, and also paid attention to the way of solving ecological problems.

In Azerbaijan, the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences intends to organize a museum on the site of the archaeological complex in the north of Shakhtakhti village of the Kengerli District of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic. At this place, according to the experts, an ancient settlement was located 8000 years ago.

Ibragim Yaganov, the leader of the "Khase" and a member of the Public Council under the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), believes that the attack on him could be organized by "semi-criminal groupings" that exist in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR); he asserts that "he knows the customer" but didn't mention him.

The session of the court of general jurisdiction of the Lori Region of Armenia, which considers the case of Serob Ter-Pogosyan, accused of sexual abuse of children, has started questioning of victims. Also, the court studied the video materials and attached them to the case records.

Today, the alleged photographers-spies – Zurab Kurtsikidze, Irakli and Natela Gedenidze, and Georgi Abdaladze – were released in the courtroom. The Tbilisi City Court found them guilty, but appointed conditional imprisonment to them.

In Dagestan, after the Friday prayer, near the central mosque of the city of Khasavyurt, a dialogue of advocates of the Sufi and Salafi trends of Islam took place. In the course of the joint debate the believers stated that imams should be elected, not appointed. They decided to convene the Board of Imams before the start of the Ramadan month.