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The oppositional "National Forum" starts bagging subscriptions in support of its bill on amending the Electoral Code of Georgia.

In total, 100 trucks of forbidden things were confiscated from the inmates kept in the prisons and colonies of the Rostov Region. As stated by Alexei Velichko, deputy head of the Federal Service of Punishment Enforcement (known as "FSIN"), who announced today the outcomes of the check of the Rostov FSIN Department, the prisoners' rights were not broken.

The tenants of the burnt-down family hostel of Kaspiisk have lost their housing and property and now live in tents in the street. According to their version, they get no help from the authorities.

As stated on July 23 by Sergey Shamba, Prime Minister of Abkhazia, his republic would take part in the next round of Geneva negotiations on safety and stability in the Caucasus to be held on July 27.

On July 23, Nino Burdzhanadze, ex-speaker of the parliament of Georgia, filed a claim to the Tbilisi City Court against the "Rustavi-2" TV Company, the newspaper Prime Time and the Internet edition "Droni.ge" for dissemination, as she asserts, of false information.

Today in the afternoon, in the course of a special operation conducted in the vicinity of Ekazhevo and Surkhakhi villages, Nazran District of Ingushetia, two suspected members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) were assassinated.

As reported by a source in the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), Rasul Magomedov, head of Cherniayevka village, Kizlyar District of Dagestan, was shot dead.

Abkhazian refugees came to hold a rally near the building of the Ministry of Economy in Tbilisi, demanding a meeting with Vera Kobaliya, Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, to address the problem of their worthy housing.

Today, Oleg Orlov, chairman of the board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", and his advocate Genry Reznik signed a protocol that they had got acquainted with the materials of the slander criminal case initiated against Orlov by President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

Near the city of Izberbash residents of Karanaiaul village blocked the "Kavkaz" Federal Highway demanding that the authorities of Dagestan interfere with the date of their fellow villager Usman Garisov, convicted in Azerbaijan for drug contraband and use.

As reported today by Dmitri Kozak, Russian Vice-Premier, during his working trip to Sochi, the 2014 Winter Olympiad will cost 185 billion roubles, of which the budget will allot 80 billion, and the rest will come, as they plan, from private investors.

Despite the advisory opinion of the UN International Court in The Hague of July 22 on legitimacy of Kosovo's independence, Azerbaijan is still recognizing the territorial integrity of Serbia.

The main outcome of the youth forum "Kavkaz-2020", held in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, was accumulation of the "bank of projects" for developments of Northern Caucasus. About 20 such projects were presented by the participants of the forum.

As compared with last year, in 2010 the number of cases of physical violence over journalists in Armenia has more than halved, Ahsot Melikyan, head of the "Committee in Defence of Freedom of Speech", told journalists.

In the near future, the figurants in the murder case of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova - Nikita Tikhonov and Evgenia Khasis - will start studying the materials of the case.

In Shamilkala village, Untsukul District of Dagestan, unidentified persons kidnapped Vladimir Redkin, Chief Engineer of the Company "Sulak Hydropower Cascade".

Bersnako Nalgiev, a resident of Ingushetia, has addressed human rights activists with a request to help in defending the rights of his son Alaudin, 19, who was detained on July 14 in Malgobek as a suspect of helping militants. As he said, his son was beaten at detention.

On July 22, a minibus fell down into the Argun River from a mountain road. Out of 10 persons inside, 7, including 2 children, were lost.

A self-made explosion device was triggered today in the railway section Inchkhe-Kayakent in Dagestan. As a result of the explosion an employee of the extradepartmental security service was wounded.

Today in Tbilisi, near the Avlabar President's residence, refugees from Abkhazia held a rally, demanding from the head of the state to provide them with decent housing conditions; this was said in a special statement delivered to the presidential administration by the participants of the protest action.