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The trial on the case against the twenty-seven-year-old native of Nalchik Aslan Cherkesov accused of murder of “Spartak” football fan Yegor Sviridov will start in Moscow city court today. According to the defendant’s attorney Dmitry Pankov, he intends to ask for holding the next session in camera.

The search of the group of gunmen who on July, 2, started skirmish with members of power ministries in a mountainous and woody area of the highland district of Vedeno has ended in failure. The officers do not rule out that the participants of a paramilitary group under the command of Gakaev brothers could have left the blocked area in several small groups.

Magomed Evloev and Alikhan Dovtaev, residents of the village of Nesterovskaya, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, were detained on suspicion of possessing weapons and explosives. They are held in the IVS (temporary isolation facility) in Ingushetia, reported a source from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the republic.

Starting July 1, citizens of Georgia are able to visit Turkey with identity cards. This is stipulated in the agreement signed by the Georgian President and the Turkish Prime Minister on May 31, 2011.

On July 4 the dolphin defenders in Yerevan will hold protest rallies. The protest actions are dated to the World Week for Captive Dolphins, which is held the first week of July.

The fifth victim, injured in the blast of a gas cylinder at a wedding party in Vladikavkaz, died.

Today in the city of Stepanakert the second youth international festival of classic music "Tndjre" was opened. Musicians from Nagorno-Karabakh, Russia, Germany, Belgium, Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia, Singapore and Austria took part in the festival.

Today Davud Israpilov, a resident of the village of Khutrakh of Tsuntin District, who was considered as disappeared since June 24, was found beaten in the Kirov District of Makhachkala, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Magomed Yusupov, Israpilov's uncle.

Representatives of the Armenian society, concerned about the continuing emigration from the country, sent a letter to Ovik Abramyan, the Speaker of the Parliament of Armenia, and to Tigran Sarkisyan, the Prime Minister of Armenia, urging the Armenian authorities to take measures to reduce emigration, which is developing into a "national disaster".

Today about 11:30 a.m. Moscow time Alim Amshokov, a local resident, born in 1983, was killed near the bridge over the Nalchik River in Keshokov Street in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria during a special operation.

Last night at the courthouse, located in the centre of the city of Malgobek, the unidentified persons put in operation an explosive device with power of about 10 kilograms in TNT equivalent, and then they shot three times from the grenade launcher to the courthouse, reported the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia.

The Parliament of Georgia has instructed the Government to develop an action plan on opening a country's Circassian Cultural Centre and a memorial of victims of genocide against the Circassian nation.

Today in the Armenian capital the initiative group "We are against increase of metro fare" held a protest rally in front of the Mayoralty. The group was formed within the social network Facebook just after the city authorities decided to increase the fare. More than 5000 persons became members of this group; about 30 of them took part in today's rally.

In the near future Aslanbek Sagov, Mayor of the city of Magas, the capital of Ingushetia, will resign from his position. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by a source in the administration of Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the head of Ingushetia, that the resignation has to do with the outcomes of the revision of construction of cottages in Magas. Aslanbek Sagov himself said that he had decided to resign on his own will after Evkurov's criticism of the activity of the Mayoralty of Magas.

The Yeysk City Court of the Krasnodar Territory has announced the sentence to two employees of the Moscow school accused of the death of six schoolchildren in the camp of "Azov".

Ban on sale of energy drinks to minors can be introduced in the Chechen Republic in the nearest future. According to experts, regular consumption of energy drinks can cause serious health problems.

As announced by the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of North Ossetia, another woman-victim of the explosion of gas cylinder in Vladikavkaz has died,. Therefore, the number of casualties of the accident has reached three persons.

Attempts to put pressure on activists from the oppositional "Georgian Party" to obtain certain testimonies began after detention and continue now, said Erosi Kitsmarishvili, the political secretary of the "Georgian Party" in an interview to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

36 non-governmental organizations of Shirak region of Armenia sent a message to Edwardo Ernekyan, Armenian philanthropist from the Argentine, owner of "Armenia International Airports" company, calling not to place the frescos my Minas Avetisyan in Yerevan airport “Zvartonts” and limit himself to their copies.

Today the Parliament of Georgia will discuss the question of creation of a memorial to the victims of genocide of the Circassian people. Sculptors from all over the world will be able to take part in the contest of projects of the memorial.