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In the village of Dikhazurga, Gal District, the burnt-down houses of local residents will be rebuilt in the near future. This became known today after the regular meeting within the mechanism for prevention and reaction to incidents held in the city of Gal.

Konstantin Biryulin, deputy director of the Russian Federal Service of Military-Technical Cooperation, has discussed, in the course of his visit to Yerevan, with the Armenian party the opportunity of creating joint military-technical facilities and of involvement of Armenian enterprises in the Russian-Belarusian Financial and Industrial Group "Defence Systems".

On July 19, residents of the Gegarkunik Region of Armenia held a protest action against construction of a Hydraulic Power Plant (HPP) in their district. The protesters blocked the Yerevan-Martuni Highway demanding not to start the construction.

The Malgobek District of Ingushetia continues building a residential settlement for the people who live in the territory of the landslide zone. The first resettlers move in back on June 4, but the process of building the infrastructure and laying down communications is not over yet.

One year after Natalia Estemirova's murder; forced eviction of Imereti residents from "Olympic" lands; start of ethnographic expedition of Russian bloggers to the Caucasus, - look these and other events in the review of the week of July 12-18, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Eviction of residents is in full swing in the Imereti Lowland, a district of Sochi, where construction of the large Olympic Stadium is planned. However, because of inadequate, in the opinion of residents, compensations they continue protesting and bringing actions.

The draft of the new Constitution of Georgia was adopted by the majority of the members of the State Constitutional Commission: 44 votes were cast for the amendments, and only three members voted against.

Today, Telman Mamedov, Judge of the Kusar District Court of Azerbaijan, passed a verdict on the criminal case of Usman Garisov, a resident of Dagestan, accused of drug contraband and use. The convict was awarded four years of minimum security prison.

As reported by the press service of the KGB of South Ossetia, on July 18, six citizens of Georgia were detained by servicemen of the Frontier Department of the Russian FSB in South Ossetia for illegal border crossing in the Znaur District of this republic.

The main prize of the 7th International Film Festival "Golden Apricot" was awarded to the Turkish film director Rekha Erdem for his film "Space".

Ambulances are called to the teachers holding their protest hunger strike several times in day: three of them were offered hospitalization; the condition of one more protester causes special doctor's alarm - if sugar in his blood will drops by one point more, he is under threat of coma. Despite it, none of the 19 persons who take part in the hunger strike is going to stop the action.

An extraordinary session of the government and parliament of South Ossetia made a decision to announce July 20 the mourning day on the victims of the bus falling in to the abyss from the Trans-Caucasian Highway (know as "Transkam") on July 18.

The first batch of Abkhazian passports for travels abroad made in Russia was brought to Sukhumi.

The children football team "Locomotive-NCRW" (North-Caucasian Railways) from the capital of Dagestan has won the third place in the prestigious international tournament, which was held in the Austrian city of Wels this July.

On July 18, the delegation of Abkhazia headed by President Sergey Bagapsh has arrived with the first official visit to the city of Managua, the capital of Nicaragua.

On July 16, the authorities started forcing residents out of their houses in the area, where Olympic objects will be built. This week, the Adler District Court has issued enforcement orders. Those who failed to buy new homes are accommodated in boarding houses.

On his way to Nicaragua with his first official visit, President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh made a stop in Cuba. He will come to Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, on Sunday in the morning.

Today in Almaty, Azerbaijan and Armenia again stated their mutual reproaches. Elmar Mamedyarov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, said that he doubts of Armenia's aspiration to settle the Karabakh conflict. In its turn, Armenia accused Baku of pursuing destructive policy.

Today in Baku, adherents of the freedom of speech and activists of democratic public of Azerbaijan commemorated Elmar Guseinov, editor-in-chief of the magazine "Monitor", who was killed on March 2, 2005; on July 17 he would have been 43.

Turkey has decided to temporarily open its border with Armenia for surface transportation of the military machinery to be used during NATO exercises in Armenia planned for September 11-17.