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In Georgia the human rights activists plan to start collecting signatures on a petition for bailing out three photographers accused of espionage for Russia. The initiative was announced by Nino Tsikhistavi, the head of the NGO "Network of Caucasian Women" at the meeting with independent Georgian MPs.

A protest of mothers of soldiers who perished as a result of hazing in the army was held near the building of the Government of Armenia. Mothers and close relatives of the soldiers lost in the Armenian army expressed their resentment over the fact that so far there is no tangible progress in none of the cases of non-combat military personnel casualties or deaths as a result of hazing in the army.

Organizational Assembly of Orthodox believers of Georgia protests against enacting new electronic certificates of identity in the country. Zaza Nanobashvili, leader of the Assembly, made this statement at an action of protest near the National Museum.

On July, 13, Federal bureau of medical and social assessment (MSA) refused acknowledging disabled a two-years-old Violetta Ariutlkina ill with mild CSIP.

A girl who underwent gang rape in Kabardino-Balkaria will take a course of rehabilitation in the republican social and rehabilitation center for underage.

On July 13 the Volgograd Regional Court at the preliminary session appointed the consideration of the criminal case on the explosions in this April in Volgograd near the buildings of the GIBDD (road police) Department and the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) on July 22. The defendant was remanded in custody till January 30, 2012.

The evening of memory of the human rights activist Natalia Estemirova, marking the second anniversary of her murder, will be held on July 14 in St Petersburg. The film "Who killed Natasha?", shot by journalist Mylene Sauloy by the French TV's order, will be screened on the memory evening for the first time in Russia.

The Labour Party of Georgia sent an appeal to all religious confessions in Georgia to renounce using the new rules of the law granting legal status to religious associations.

Five-day trainings will be organised for the applicants from Ingushetia, who have passed competitive selection for going on purpose assignment to the other regions of the Russian Federation. At these trainings the experts will tell the applicants about the culture of the places where they are going to study.

Today Konstantin Ozgan, the head of the Board of Elders, disseminated the statement in which the Board of Elders of Abkhazia proposes all presidential candidates to unite into a single electoral coalition.

Today in Georgia the organisation "Veterans for Veterans" and the initiative group "For Democracy and Normal Life" demanded to stop sending new Georgian military contingent to Afghanistan.

Participants in the programme "Cinema of CIS: 20 years of independence," of the VIII International Film Festival "Golden Apricot" during the round table on the problems of the CIS films, which was held on July 13, representatives of Armenia, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and other countries reported the need to intensify and deepen old relations.

In the Astrakhan Region the head of the police department for Krasnoyarsk District and the head of the District GIBDD (road police) were announced disciplinary actions for using a child in the action "Attentive driver", reported the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the region.

Journalists from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia will discuss the problems of ethnic minorities – the Armenians and the Azerbaijanis – in Georgia's districts of Kvemo Kartli and Samtskhe-Djavakheti. The event will be held from July 13 to July 15 as a part of the project "Neighbours", reported the press service of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR).

The Sachkheri military base located in Western Georgia and intended for training mountain shooters (yagers) has received the status of PFP (Partnership for Peace), which gives it the right to train NATO soldiers.

This morning a twenty-three-years-old Alina Tsakoeva injured as a result of an explosion of a gas bottle on June, 25, in Vladikavkaz died this morning in the municipal clinic No 36 of Federal Medico-biologic Agency of Russia. This news came from Irbek Doev, Head of Press service of Permanent Mission of North Osetia in Moscow.

At night of July, 8, two young men stoned a prayer house of Jehovah's Witnesses in the town of Kotovo, Volgograd region. The double-glass pane was broken. There were no victims.

About one hundred people took part in the action of journalists and human righs activists which was held in the evening of July, 12, near the Parliament of Georgia and lasted about an hour. This event continued a series of actions of protest carried out by representatives of mass media, non-governmental organizations and human rights activists in Tbilisi after detention of the photographers.

The government of Georgia will finance education in magistracy in the 2011-2012 academic year for 50 internally displaced persons (IDPs) who have received highest marks at exams.

In Sochi more than 70 thousand resident and visitors of the city signed the charter "Sochi without smoking", which was adopted at the resort by the authorities' decision in January 2010, said Nina Suslonova, the head of the health department of the city administration, today during a video bridge Sochi - Moscow "Fight against smoking: freedom from tobacco smoke".