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About 600 residents of the city of Razdan have addressed their letter to the Public Council under the President of Armenia asking not to launch the iron mine, located in close vicinity of the city.

Today, the village of Tsovkra, Kuli District of Dagestan, has hosted the traditional republican festival of tightrope walkers.

Today, officials of the National Security Agency (NSA) of Armenia have arrested Karen Megrabyan, born in 1980, a citizen of Armenia, who is suspected of having relations with the secret services of Azerbaijan.

Today in Novorossiysk city of Krasnodar Territory residents of different regions and cities gathered at a rally in support of human rights and freedoms of entrepreneurs, property owners and victims of raiding. In total, according to the preliminary calculations, about hundred people took part in the rally.

The public organization "Circassian Congress" made a statement concerning the attack on Ibragim Yaganov, Chairman of the Public Movement "Khase" of Kabardino-Balkaria.

Six Sochi residents in two cars drove around the cities where the Olympic Games had been held at different times. The Russians were interested in experience of the use of the Olympic facilities, and also paid attention to the way of solving ecological problems.

In Azerbaijan, the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences intends to organize a museum on the site of the archaeological complex in the north of Shakhtakhti village of the Kengerli District of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic. At this place, according to the experts, an ancient settlement was located 8000 years ago.

Ibragim Yaganov, the leader of the "Khase" and a member of the Public Council under the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), believes that the attack on him could be organized by "semi-criminal groupings" that exist in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR); he asserts that "he knows the customer" but didn't mention him.

The session of the court of general jurisdiction of the Lori Region of Armenia, which considers the case of Serob Ter-Pogosyan, accused of sexual abuse of children, has started questioning of victims. Also, the court studied the video materials and attached them to the case records.

Today, the alleged photographers-spies – Zurab Kurtsikidze, Irakli and Natela Gedenidze, and Georgi Abdaladze – were released in the courtroom. The Tbilisi City Court found them guilty, but appointed conditional imprisonment to them.

In Dagestan, after the Friday prayer, near the central mosque of the city of Khasavyurt, a dialogue of advocates of the Sufi and Salafi trends of Islam took place. In the course of the joint debate the believers stated that imams should be elected, not appointed. They decided to convene the Board of Imams before the start of the Ramadan month.

Today, after a meeting of Armenian and Turkish entrepreneurs, which was held in Yerevan within the programme "Promoting Advancement of Armenian-Turkish Relations", a memorandum of understanding in the sphere of tourism was signed. The memorandum aims to create the Association of Armenian and Turkish Tourist Companies.

On July 21, in the Chegem District of Kabardino-Balkaria, a mudflow went down on the highway in the area of Chegem Waterfalls and damaged a gas pipeline, leaving four villages and a frontier unit without gas supply. In the village of Nizhni Chegem several houses were flooded.

On July 22, Azerbaijan marks the Day of National Press. 136 years ago, on July 22, 1875, the first issue of the first newspaper in the Azerbaijani language "Ekinchi" (Ploughman) was published by the outstanding Azerbaijani educator Gasan Bek Zardabi. The Day of National Press is marked since Azerbaijan gained its independence in 1991.

Operative agents believe that among other things Victor Dvorakovskiy, who is suspected of involvement in terrorism, was also recruiting new militants. This was stated by Nikolai Olekhnovich, acting head of the first operative-search unit of the Chief Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

The construction and restoration works in one of the main streets of the Chechen capital – Akhmat Kadyrov Avenue – are nearing completion. The opening of the completely renovated avenue is scheduled for August 23, the birthday of the former head of Chechnya. The reconstruction involves a large number of builders and workers from Turkey and Azerbaijan, which causes resentment among local residents, who remind about high unemployment rate in the republic.

“Black realtors” from Azerbaijan in Astrakhan were sentenced to long terms of custody for murders and robbery.

On July, 21, Secretary of Security Council of Ingushetia Ahmed Kotiev, Ombudsman of the republic Jambulat Ozdoev together with Head of the Committee for adaptation of gunmen and First Vice-premier of Dagestan Rizvan Kurbanov visited the investigative isolation ward where the citizens of Kazakhstan who formerly appealed to the Committee for aid are kept.

Two Polish alpinists got lost on July, 21, on the Northern slope of Elbrus, Head of Press service of North-Caucasian regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia Kantemir Davydov reported.

Abkhazia will take part in the 17th round of Geneva talks on security and stability in the Caucasus, scheduled on October 4, and set out its position on the issue concerning the refugees return. This was stated by Maxim Gvindjiya, Foreign Minister of Abkhazia, following the results of the meeting of Geneva talks Co-chairpersons with representatives of Abkhazia.