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Law enforcement bodies believe that one of militants' leaders - Kazbek Tashuev - may stand behind the explosions at the Baksan Hydraulic Power Plant (HPP) in Kabardino-Balkaria triggered on July 21. This was stated by a source from power agencies of the NCFD (North-Caucasian Federal District. According to his version, members of his grouping were recognized by the workers of the HPP.

Residents of Dzhaparidze village, Dedoplistskaroi District of Georgia, ask the authority to ensure protection of the village against wolves, which get into the yards of private households.

Operative agents of the FSB (Federal Security Bureau) believe that they have established a potential organizer of the explosions at the Baksan Hydraulic Power Plant (HPP) in Kabardino-Balkaria committed on July 21. According to their data, this is one of militants' leaders, whose name is not disclosed in the interests of the investigation.

As reported by villagers of Birkiani, located in the Pankissi Gorge of Georgia, a prayer house of local followers of traditional Islam was ruined there.

On Tuesday, July 20, four journalists were detained in Baku near the administration of the President of Azerbaijan, when they were covering the protest action of residents of the Sabirabad District, who suffered from floods.

In the capital of North Ossetia the initiative group continues its judicial efforts to stop the "Electrozinc" factory. On July 19, a statement of claim was filed by residents of the sanitary zone around the factory, as reported by Zalina Kairova, leader of the initiative group named "Electrozinc - what do we breath in?"

Under the governmental credit programme aimed at improvement of living conditions of the citizens who have the status of repressed persons, as of July 1, 2010, loans during the previous decade had been granted to 257 persons to the total sum of 972,659,730 drams.

At night on July 21, the Baksan Hydraulic Power Plant (HPP) was attacked. Having killed two securities, the terrorists entered the machine hall and seized HPP workers. Then, they planted and triggered two explosive devices.

The Georgian parliamentary committee on foreign relations has initiated two statements, according to which August 23 will be announced to be the Memory Day of Totalitarian Regimes' Victims, and February 25 - the Day of Occupation.

On July 20, some 100 residents of the flooded villages of the Sabirabad and Saatlin Districts of Azerbaijan came to the President's administration with a demand to speed up restoration of their houses and increase compensations for the damage caused by floods.

Today at night in Kirovaul village, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, unidentified persons shot two young men dead from their automatic firearms.

On July 19, at about 5:00 p.m. in Maiskoe village, Chakhkieva, Khadidzha Rustamovna, aged one year and three months, disappeared. According to eyewitnesses, the child was hastily taken away by another girl, aged about 6-8 years.

The teachers of the Astrakhan Regional "Centre of Children's Scientific and Technical Creativity", who demanded to cancel the order about reorganization of the "Centre of Children's Aesthetic Training", have stopped their hunger strike.

The Dutch city of Leiden hosted a meeting of the participants of the Georgian-Ossetian Civil Forum, where an appeal was adopted to the parties of the Geneva Consultations, asking to help in solving the problems of the peaceful population of Georgia and South Ossetia.

Ten oppositional parties of Georgia have made a joint statement asking the parliament not to adopt the new version of the national Constitution. The signatories believe that the hasty consideration of the bill has only one aim - granting guarantees to Mikhail Saakashvili that he will continue ruling the country as prime minister after the end of his presidency.

After the recent resonant terror acts committed in Russia, President Dmitri Medvedev has brought in a bill to the State Duma on amending the Russia's Criminal Code.

On July 19, the city of Nalchik hosted an opening ceremony of the youth tent camp "Caucasus-2020", located on the coast of the picturesque Kurortnoe Lake, where more than one thousand young men from all Russia - from Kamchatka to Kaliningrad - gathered.

In Tbilisi, a book was presented entitled "Russian Aggression in My Eyes", dedicated to the Russian-Georgian military conflict in August 2008.

The Board for Assisting to Development of Civil Society Institutes and Human Rights under Russian President sent an appeal to Russian leader asking to protect human rights activists, including the employees of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial", who work in Chechnya, against the threats pronounced by local president Ramzan Kadyrov, and ensure their normal working conditions.

According to a high-ranking source in power agencies of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), one of the six women detained on July 12 in Makhachkala was going to come to Moscow in July and commit a terror act there.