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Start of election race in Abkhazia; Dagestan: disputable outcomes of special operation, economic forum and murder of head of President's press service; natural fires in Rostov Region, and, probably, criminal origin of fires in central Astrakhan, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the week of July 25-31, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Deputies of the rural settlement of Plievo in Ingushetia sent complaints to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation and the European Parliament in connection with "the Ingush leader's intervention in the activities of the municipality".

The city citizens, whose real estates are alienated for construction of the Olympic infrastructure instead, are dissatisfied with compensation amounts.

The maximum protection level of a new generation identity card – ID card – is provided, in particular, by the code and password known only to the ID's owner. This was reported by Valery Tkeshelashvili, a staff member of the service for the technologies and management of the civil registry of the Georgian Ministry of Justice.

On August 3, the tunnel "Gimry-Chirkata" will be completely closed for the passage of vehicles and the construction works will be started in it. This was reported today by Rizvan Gazimagomedov, Deputy Prime Minister of Dagestan. He addressed residents of the nearby districts asking not to organize protests in that connection.

Ruslan Poshev, a resident of the village of Dongaron of the Prigorodny District of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, who had disappeared on this May 14, was still not on the federal wanted list. This was reported by his wife Marina Posheva. Representatives of the authorities and investigators say they are investigating the disappearance of Poshev and have initiated by this fact the criminal cases under the articles of murder and kidnapping.

The KVN (Club of Funny and Inventive) "Narty from Abkhazia" failed to participate in the festival "Golosyaschiy KiViN-2011" (Singing KiViN Bird) in Jurmala because of the refusal of visas by the Latvian party. This was reported today by Vianor Bebiya, the team leader, on his arrival from Moscow.

In Chechnya, the Muslim holy month of Ramadan will begin on August 2, a day later than in the entire Muslim world. This decision was adopted by the Republic's Muftiat. Some believers are discontent with that decision.

During excavations of Sarai-Batu, the Golden Horde's capital, situated near the village of Selitrennoye of the Kharabali District of the Astrakhan Region, archaeologists from the cities of Astrakhan and Yoshkar-Ola discovered rare findings belonging to a medieval child.

The European Court of Human Rights for the first time in its practice concerning Northern Caucasus demanded from the Russian Federation to take urgent and concrete measures to secure safety of Tamerlan Suleimanov kidnapped in Grozny this May.

A preparatory session on the case of four oppositional activists made criminally liable for participation in an unauthorized meeting with the demand of democratic reforms on April, 2, in the capital of Azerbaijan is appointed on August, 12, in Sabaiil district court of Baku.

On July, 31, a meeting within “Strategy-31” project in protection of freedom of assembly permitted by a decision of the court passed off near Gorky Park of Rostov-on-Don.

The village of Pervomaisky of the Caucasian Mineral Waters Region welcomes the first Open Caucasian Singer-Rock Festival "We want peace!" The registered list of singers and rock musicians includes not only representatives of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), but also guests from many regions of Russia, the CIS countries and far-abroad countries.

Human rights activists, lawyers and relatives of Zubair Zubairaev, a convicted Chechen resident, filed an application to Alexander Reimer, Director of the Russian Federal Correction Service (FSIN), to release Zubair Zubairaev on health grounds.

The sentence against Shakhin Gasanli, the head of the organizational division of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), who had been convicted to two years of imprisonment, will be challenged at the court of appeal. This was reported by Mansum Bairamov, the Gasanli's lawyer.

The highway in the Akhty District of Dagestan, which was blocked by the picketers for more than a day, last night was opened to vehicle traffic. The picketers, who organized the protest action demanding to detain the offender who had killed a man and wounded five other people in a mass brawl, agreed to open the highway for a promise that the head of Dagestan would meet with them.

Yesterday, on July 29, a new record in baking a giant Adzharian khachapuri was set in Batumi.

The resort dwelling settlement of Anaklia has been chosen to be the place for the memorial sacred to the victims of genocide against the Circassian people. This was reported by Papuna Davitaya, Georgian State Minister for Diaspora Affairs. The opening of the memorial is scheduled for 2012.

At a meeting with representatives of the LLC "Sofrakht-Invest" on the investment project "Establishment and Development of the Agricultural Industrial Park "AgroDagItaly", which was held on July 29, the Dagestan leader Magomedsalam Magomedov called the project "one of the most interesting, attractive, and socially significant" and promised his support for the project.

The court in the Krasnodar Territory will consider the case against 17 teenagers accused of organizing riots in a juvenile correctional facility in the city of Belorechensk.