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Advocates of Ali Insanov, ex-Minister of Public Health of Azerbaijan, who is serving his imprisonment, have applied to the European Court for Human Rights because of bad custody conditions of their client at the Penitentiary Establishment No. 13.

Abkhazia is addressing the G8, the UN Security Council, the OSCE and the Group of Friends of the UN Secretary General with an appeal "to take adequate measures for suppressing the threat of terrorism originating from Georgia, since ignoring of such serious provocations can lead to irreversible escalation of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict."

President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh has announced that after the recent terror acts in the territory of his Republic, Abkhazia suspends all contacts with Georgia.

Karel Schwartzenberg, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Czech Republic, who made a three-day official visit to Yerevan, had a meeting late at night on July 6 with Levon Ter-Petrosyan, leader of Armenian opposition.

Today, the Moscow-Baku train was 45 minutes late in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, because it was stopped at the Kizlyar station by residents of the village of Kachalay, who demanded from law enforcement bodies to take active steps in searching their fellow villager kidnapped yesterday.

Boris Malkarov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, has addressed his complaint to the Prosecutor's office of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), public human rights organizations and mass media stating that a murder criminal case is fabricated against his son Kerim Malkarov, 26, an employee of the "Children's World" trade enterprise.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that today Ombudsman of Armenia Armen Arutyunyan has addressed an official letter to Gorik Akopyan, Director of the National Security Service, asking to ensure his personal and his family members' safety.

On July 4, Presidents of Transdniestria and South Ossetia Igor Smirnov and Eduard Kokoity signed a cooperation agreement of two non-recognized republics.

While discussing the outcomes of the first visit to Azerbaijan of Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, many analysts and political scientists agree that the visit has failed to settle many of the problems in mutual relations of the two states.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia has treated as "political hypocrisy" the refusal of Swedish authorities to extradite Chechen Aslan Adaev, suspected of terrorism and other crimes.

According to the statement of law enforcement bodies of South Ossetia, Georgia continues its "provocative actions" aimed towards further escalation of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict, and has increased number of illegally deployed posts (check points) in the conflict zone.

It is possible that Armand Babadzhanyan, editor-in-chief of the "Zhamanak-Yerevan" newspaper, convicted for evasion of mandatory army service and serving his term at the criminal corrective establishment, will be released ahead of time, early this August.

Today at night, in the elite district of Nazran, unknown criminals have fired a new house of Vice-Premier of Ingushetia Bashir Aushev who is supervising in the government the so-called "power block" of the Republic.

Leaders of various political parties of Azerbaijan have different attitude to the possibility for the opposition to boycott the forthcoming presidential election.

Citizens of the Russian Federation who live in South Ossetia are asking President and Prime Minister of Russia, and Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation to protect them from liquidation.

Courts in Armenia have prolonged today the custody terms for two oppositionists - ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Alexander Arzumanyan and Head of the Board of the Party "Armenian Nationwide Movement" (ANM) Ararat Zurabyan.

The decision of the Kuban Investigatory Committee to reject initiation of a criminal case on the fact of journalist Rozhkov's beating has been cancelled. An additional examination has been appointed.

The International Human Rights Watch has called to release from custody Armand Babadzhanyan, editor-in-chief of the "Zhamanak-Yerevan" newspaper, before his term; he was convicted to 3.5 years of imprisonment for evasion of mandatory military service.

Speaking at the first sitting on mass media and freedom of speech of the Public-Advisory Board (PAB) under the President of Kabardino-Balkaria, Valery Khatazhukov, chairman of the Public Human Rights Centre, has stated that the role of the state in sphere of mass media should be restricted.

The authorities of Ingushetia have no attitude to the murders and kidnappings committed in the territory under their governance, the leaders of this Republic declared at the press conference held on July 1 at the RIA "Novosti" in Moscow.