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On July 3, President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili stated that the actions of the opposition, which is holding from April 9 its actions in Tbilisi demanding resignation of the country's leader, have caused more financial damage to the nation than Russian bombardments in August 2008.

As a result of shelling a motor vehicle with militiamen from Chechnya in Arshty village, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, nine persons perished and ten more were wounded, as reported by Alexei Vorobyov, Secretary of the Security Council of Ingushetia.

The official signing ceremony of the interstate treaty on construction of the Nabucco gas pipeline will take place on July 13 in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. This was announced by the European Commission on July 3.

Analysis of the situation in labour market of North Ossetia shows that the number of workplaces is no longer shrinking, and the number of jobless workers no longer grows, as reported Nikolai Koliev, head of the division on labour migration.

The organization named "Human Rights Centre" (HRC) has promulgated a statement on detentions in Georgia of activists of the opposition and attacks on them, as Simon Papuashvili, coordinator of the HRC in Tbilisi, has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Ella Polyakova, chair of the human rights organization "Soldier's Mothers of St Petersburg", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that regular soldiers, who take their service in South Ossetia, are in "brutal conditions" there. According to her story, soldiers in South Ossetia are beaten not only by senior conscripts, but also by officers.

President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, who was heavily wounded in an attempt on him, has come to his senses. Doctors managed to replenish his blood loss and stabilize his blood tension.

As reported by the press service of Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Ombudsman in the Chechen Republic, local human rights activists are ready to help Maskhud Abdullaev, a native of Chechnya and deported student from Egypt, in obtaining the general civil Russian passport, and to defend his rights.

The Investigatory Department for the Novgorod Region of the ICPO has initiated the second criminal case against Magomed Razakov, a lawyer of the Moscow Bar, who defended a figurant accused of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train. This time the case was opened on the article of "Contempt of the court".

Today, the Leninskiy Court of Makhachkala has held a preliminary hearing on the criminal case, where 5 journalists of the "Chernovik" weekly are defendants. The criminal case comes back to the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan.

Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the ICPO, has presented the above figure of those who suffered in the war in South Ossetia in August 2008 as the latest result of the investigation into the conflict in the Caucasus.

On June 1, the body of Murat Ristov, world champion in combat sambo (Russian style of self-defence), who was killed on May 28 in Kabardino-Balkaria, was rendered to the mould in his homeland - Karachaevo-Circassia. Ristov was trained and became a well-known sportsman in Adygea.

The majority of bride kidnappings in Ingushetia take place upon prior agreement between the families of the would-be couple. According to Magomed Mutsolgov, a member of the advisory board on human rights in Russia and leader of the human rights NGO "Mashr", only five percent of such kidnappings end with opening of criminal cases.

On July 2, in the capital of Armenia, supporters of the opposition held a several thousand strong rally and then marched along the streets of Yerevan.

Two suspected militants were blocked today at night in a flat of a dwelling block in Nalchik. As reported by a source in law enforcement bodies, they surrendered to militiamen.

Today, at about 3:30 a.m. Moscow time, an unidentified person has thrown a grenade into the yard of a private household in Nazran, where Rustam Khalukhaev, deputy head of the division for fighting extremism of the Department for Fighting Organized Crime (UBOP) of Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), lives.

Russia has lost a case at the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) on the claim of Zina Pukhigova, a resident of Chechnya, and should pay 39,757 euros for disappearance and death of her husband Salman Abdulazizov in February 2001.

In Grozny, as reported by Ruslan Alkhanov, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic, a militant was killed, who had prepared terror acts against the Republic's leadership, including President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. Also, a woman-militant was wounded and detained; a militiaman was wounded in a special operation.

The investigation considers the leader of Chechen militants Doku Umarov and his subordinate and leader of Ingush underground Ali Taziev, also known as Magas, to be the main suspects of organizing the attempt on President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of South Ossetia will not take part in the military exercises "Kavkaz-2009", held now in a number of regions of Southern Russia. The Caucasian Knot correspondent has learnt about it from Eduard Gabaraev, Chief of Artillery of the Ministry of Defence.