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Two helicopters were shelled in the mountainous Shatoy District of Chechnya; one soldier was wounded. As reported by the Republic's law enforcement bodies, the helicopters had to make an emergency landing.

In the evening on July 7, in the centre of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, in the crossing of Dakhadaeva and Malygina Streets, not far from the central building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan, unknown persons shelled an on duty militia tour.

Highways of Chechnya are again at "war" on cars with tinted glasses. GIBDD (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate) agents stop cars and right in situ remove tinting film from glasses. This is the way local GIBDD bosses react to President Kadyrov's command of July 6 to get tougher in fighting against car tinted glasses.

As reported today by David Sanakoev, representative of the President of South Ossetia on human rights, mothers of South-Ossetian residents kidnapped by Georgian special agencies have sent an electronic letter to US President Barack Obama asking him to help to liberate their sons.

The data on the number of victims of the explosion, which happened today at about 1:20 p.m. Moscow time in the city of Grozny, is contradictory. According to the ID for Chechnya of the Russian ICPO, six persons received wounds. As to eyewitnesses and militiamen, who were in the place of the incident, they told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that there were no casualties and wounded persons.

The murder case of the observer of "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya has arrived to the Moscow Regional Military Court for repeated consideration, as reported by Alexander Minchanovskiy, press secretary of the Court.

As reported by Rashid Gaisanov, Acting President of Ingushetia, the murder case of the owner of the oppositional website "Ingushetia.Ru" Magomed Evloev has been delivered to the court.

An explosion took place in the Leninskiy District of the capital of Chechnya and wounded, according to different sources, from one to six persons.

The inspection conducted by a team of the Russian GPO in the law-enforcement bodies of Dagestan as to their efficiency in disclosing terrorist and extremist crimes and encroachments on life of law enforcers concluded their low efficiency.

The Ministry of Justice of Georgia has rejected the petition submitted by the Russia's GPO with the request on extradition of Russian sergeant Alexander Glukhov, who deserted in January from his unit in South Ossetia and ran away to Georgia.

The judicial panel on criminal cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has upheld the verdict of the Stavropol Territorial Court passed to residents of Ingushetia Ruslan Kostoev and Zurab Tsuroev accused of blowing up the passenger bus "Pyatigorsk-Stavropol" at the bus station in the city of Nevinnomyssk on December 9, 2007.

Today in the morning, in the centre of Nazran, unidentified persons have shelled a car with Militia Colonel Magomet Gadaborshev, head of the expert-criminalistic centre of the MIA of Ingushetia. This was reported by the press service of the Russian ICPO for Ingushetia.

Tigran Arakelyan, arrested activist of the youth wing of the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC), who was among the young men, attacked on July 1 by the police for dissemination of leaflets about an oppositional rally, has announced a hunger strike.

On July 6, the National Opera and Ballet Theatre in the capital of Armenia hosted the international flower festival and contest of florists "Brabillion is a Flower of Peace" with participation of professionals from Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan and Armenia.

According to a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic, on July 5, a suspected member of the armed underground committed suicide not to get arrested.

On July 6, the Azerbaijani Court on Grave Crimes continued considering the case of the grouping named "Forest Brothers" and accused of a series of crimes, including the act of terror "Abu-Bekr" Mosque. The state accuser Murvet Gasanov announced the indictment.

The operative-strategic exercises "Kavkaz-2009", held in the North-Caucasian Military District (NCMD) in the south of Russia since June 29, are over.

Khachatur Sukiasyan, a deputy of the National Assembly of Armenia, who was announced into search last March under charges of organizing mass disorders on March 1, 2008, could not exclude his exit out of the underground, where he remained for 16 months.

President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, who was seriously wounded in the attempt on June 22, is already in consciousness, on an active mend and is able to read. This was stated by the press service of Ingushetia's permanent representative office at the President of the Russian Federation.

On July 6, oppositionist Zahariya Kutsnashvili, representing the organization named "Law for People" and acting on behalf of the initiative group, made public the list of political prisoners of Georgia and addressed the US administration and leaders of other countries with a request to influence the Georgian government and urge it to release all the political prisoners by the arrival to Georgia of US Vice-President Joe Biden, scheduled on July 20-24.