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On July 8 and 9 Geneva hosted another round of consultations between Russia and Georgia on the former's accession to the WTO. According to Nino Kalandadze, Deputy Foreign Minister of Georgia, customs experts took part in the meeting.

The organizers of the mountain multi-race "Caucasus Adventure Race 2011", which was held on July 8-10 in the territory of the Lagonaki Highland and the Fisht-Oshten Massive of the Republic of Adygea and the Krasnodar Territory, intend to start holding it every year. In the future, they plan to add the marine component to the race.

Dagestani advocates do not rule out that after the murder of the school principal Sidikullah Akhmedov, committed in the village of Sovietskoe, repressions may be launched against the parishioners of the local mosque, who had been already beaten once.

By September 1, the village of Novo-Sasitli will open a new Islamic school- medrese for 150 pupils. The construction is funded by Muslims' donations.

The fact that Adam Kartoev, born in 1986, a resident of the village of Ekazhevo, Nazran District of Ingushetia, departed on July 7 in his VAZ-2107 car to Nazran and never returned was reported to the on duty unit of the Nazran ROVD by his mother Ferdovs Kartoeva.

The championship in boxing among schoolchildren was opened on July 10 in the Chechen capital. The tournament will be held from July 10 to July 16.

As of 14:00, July, 11, twelve persons injured as a result of an explosion of a gas bottle in Vladikavkaz are still staying in clinics of St. Petersburg, Irbek Doev, Head of Press service of the Permanent Mission of North Osetia, reported.

Over 200 people living in PTSs for displaced persons which the authorities of Chechnya several years ago renamed into dormitories for people in need of improvement housing conditions may be compulsorily evicted one of these days.

The internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Abkhazia, who had been accommodated in two temporary accommodation centres (TACs), kindergarten No. 204 in micro-district No. 2 in the district of Varketili, and the religious boarding school in Lotkin district in Tbilisi, received their eviction notification.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia has circulated a video record of confessional evidences given by Irakli Gedenidze, one of the photographers, detained on suspicion of spying.

In the evening on July 8 a mass brawl of young people with use of traumatic pistols and cold weapons took place in the Mozdok District of North Ossetia; as a result, two persons were injured and hospitalized, said the regional press service of the MIA.

Vladimir Ujba, the head of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA) of Russia, has ordered to send a team of experts to the Krasnodar Territory to make a final decision regarding the girl, who was denied disability status by doctors from the Medical-Sanitary Examination (MSE).

The members of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation have urged law enforcement bodies to strain all their efforts to investigate the murder of a headmaster in Dagestan; and the government officials – to do everything to normalize the situation in the village of Sovietskoe, where at night on July 9 Sadikullah Akhmedov, 59, the principal of the local secondary school, was shot dead.

The Festival programme contains names of performers from 11 countries. For the first time, organ music ensembles will be presented.

In Volgograd, on July 8 in Lenin Square residents held a "picket of despair", which was sanctioned by the authorities. Its participants were eight activists of the initiative group of the social movement "Volgograd Mothers" and the townspeople, who lost their homes by court rulings.

The Armenian coalition parties have formed a group fore holding a dialogue with the opposition and are ready to meet them within the next ten days, said Armen Arzumanyan, the press secretary of the President of Armenia.

The probability that the accident with the Azerbaijani cargo plane Il-76 in Afghanistan had to do with the movement of "Taliban" is high, said Ilham Amirov, the head of the commission to investigate the reasons of the accident.

Today, the Tbilisi City Court has ruled to appoint pre-trial detention to the photographers detained on espionage charges.

The international human rights organization "Reporters Without Borders" (RWB) urges the authorities of Georgia to clarify the circumstances of detention of the photographers, who were arrested on suspicion of espionage. This was reported by Johan Bihr, the head of the European and Central-Asian Branch of the RWB.

Today six Georgian oppositional parties issued a statement on creation of the coalition "For Free Choice", aimed at achieving the power change through elections.