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Today, the Garadag District Court of Azerbaijan, presided by Rufan Mursalov, considered a petition lodged by blogger Adnan Gadjizade about early release after serving a half of his term.

Ingushetia and Kalmykia are among five outsiders by the rating of life quality, compiled by the Institute of Regional Information for the first quarter of 2010. Unconditional leaders throughout the last five years are Moscow and St Petersburg, while the gap between the leaders and outsiders continues growing.

At night on July 21, 2010, in the OVD (Interior Division) building of Khebda village, Shamil District of Dagestan, three militiamen were torturing and beating a boy of 14, forcing him to confess of a theft, human rights activists assert.

Rafael Kallagov, ex-employee of the UBOP (Department for Fighting Organized Crime) of the MIA of North Ossetia, was sentenced by the Supreme Court of the republic to 18 years of imprisonment in a high security colony. He was accused of committing a number of resonant murders as a member of a criminal grouping, including the murder of Vitaly Karaev, former mayor of Vladikavkaz.

The Balkar public organization named "Alan" would not accept radical forms of protest - hunger strikes, pickets and rallies. This was stated by one of its leaders - Magomed Apshaev, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in his comment on the hunger strike of a group of Balkars, who demand enforcement in the republic of the federal law on local self-government.

It is practically impossible to find people drowned in a mountain river - this was the comment of the spokesman of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Chechnya on the statement of the Georgian party that Chechnya had refused to help in searching children supposedly carried away by the river after a road accident in the territory of the Chechen Republic.

On July 25, at about 9 in the evening, near her house in Cherkessk, Bella Ksalova, 26, own correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot", was knocked down by a car. The young woman died; now the details of the incident are investigated.

Umar Garisov, a resident Karanaiaul village, Kayakent District of Dagestan, has addressed the president of the republic Magomedsalam Magomedov with a request to help to release his brother Usman Garisov, who was sentenced in Azerbaijan to four years of prison for drug contraband and use.

Today, at about 1:00 p.m. in Tskhinvali, Timur Tskhovrebov, a civil activist and initiator of creation of the "Republican Party-Iron" in South Ossetia, was beaten. Supposedly, there were about 10 attackers.

The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) made a decision not to award the international status to the airport in Sukhumi. The ICAO has reiterated the recognition of the united air space of Georgia.

Ruslan Malsagov, pro-rector for management of the Ingush State University was killed today at the gate of his own house in the Altievskiy municipal district of the city of Nazran.

As a result of strong torrential rains, six houses in Kamenomost aul, Karachai District of Karachai-Circassia, were flooded, as reported by Azret-Ali Karaev, head of the administration of the rural settlement.

The oppositional "National Forum" starts bagging subscriptions in support of its bill on amending the Electoral Code of Georgia.

In total, 100 trucks of forbidden things were confiscated from the inmates kept in the prisons and colonies of the Rostov Region. As stated by Alexei Velichko, deputy head of the Federal Service of Punishment Enforcement (known as "FSIN"), who announced today the outcomes of the check of the Rostov FSIN Department, the prisoners' rights were not broken.

The tenants of the burnt-down family hostel of Kaspiisk have lost their housing and property and now live in tents in the street. According to their version, they get no help from the authorities.

As stated on July 23 by Sergey Shamba, Prime Minister of Abkhazia, his republic would take part in the next round of Geneva negotiations on safety and stability in the Caucasus to be held on July 27.

On July 23, Nino Burdzhanadze, ex-speaker of the parliament of Georgia, filed a claim to the Tbilisi City Court against the "Rustavi-2" TV Company, the newspaper Prime Time and the Internet edition "Droni.ge" for dissemination, as she asserts, of false information.

Today in the afternoon, in the course of a special operation conducted in the vicinity of Ekazhevo and Surkhakhi villages, Nazran District of Ingushetia, two suspected members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) were assassinated.

As reported by a source in the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), Rasul Magomedov, head of Cherniayevka village, Kizlyar District of Dagestan, was shot dead.

Abkhazian refugees came to hold a rally near the building of the Ministry of Economy in Tbilisi, demanding a meeting with Vera Kobaliya, Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, to address the problem of their worthy housing.