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On July 23, Colonel-Lieutenant of Azerbaijani Army Rasim Muradov was arrested.

Today, employees of the Azerbaijani Ministry of National Security (MNS) have arrested Mushfig Guseinov, section editor of the "Bizim Yol" (Our Way) oppositional newspaper.

Thirty-five renal insufficiency patients have gone on hunger strike in the city of Nazran (Ingushetia).

Mziya Amaglobeli, publisher of the "Batumelebi" newspaper, has informed that independent regional journalist Emzar Diasamidze, who is representing the above edition, has been sent out today from the sitting of the government of the Autonomous Republic of Adjaria (Georgia).

Today, a roundtable was held in Nalchik to discuss the problems of religious extremism in Kabardino-Balkaria.

"There were no residents of the South Federal District (SFD) among the victims of the attack on the protest tent camp," a participant of the ecological action held by the "Autonomous Action" Movement and "Rainbow Guards" Organization in the vicinity of Angarsk, Irkutsk Region, told.

The action that was to take place on July 29 in Tbilisi within the agenda of the Council of Europe's campaign entitled "All are different - all are equal" was cancelled.

The command of the Nakhichevan military unit, where Colonel-Lieutenant of Azerbaijani National Army Rasim Muradov is taking his service, continues to exert pressure on him.

Faramaz Allakhverdiev, correspondent of the "Nota Bene" newspaper, who is serving his punishment in Colony No. 14 of Azerbaijan, has announced a hunger strike and sewn up his mouth.

According to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Russian Federation, during the latest six months of 2007, a total of 37 militaries have been lost in Chechnya.

The "Region Resource" Company intends to start prospecting dolomites in the territory of the "Kamyshanova Polyana" Landscape Reserve, located in the Apsheron District of the Krasnodar Territory near to the Caucasian Biosphere Reserve.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Irkutsk Region has informed today that the persons, arrested on suspicion of attacking on July 21 the residents of the tent camp near Angarsk, are asserting that they took revenge for their comrade beaten by activists of the "Antifa" Movement.

Today, the Arbitration Court of Dagestan has begun considering the suit of the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan on cancelling the order of the Ministry of Property of the Republic on allocation of premises to the Regional Public Foundation "Charitable Women's Hospital."

On July 22, in the central mini-park of the capital of Azerbaijan, in the Fountains Square, the police severely dispersed the participants of the protest action held by the "Dalga" Youth Organization.

The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Nagorno-Karabakh has made public the final results of the presidential election, according to which Bako Saakyan was declared President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).

Mikhail Tarantsov, Ombudsman for the Volgograd Region, told at the meeting with journalists that this May parents of a young man had addressed him asking to search their son.

Three ladies-activists of the "Beslan Mothers" Committee - Rita Techieva, Zalina Guburova and Mziya Kochishvili - were fined for the pogrom in the building of the Pravoberezhny District Court of North Ossetia, which had considered the case of three militiamen accused of negligence in connection with the capture of hostages in Beslan in 2004.

Today about 1 p.m., in the city of Karabulak, Ingushetia, a murder was accomplished of Vakha Vedzizhev, a well-known religious figure of the Republic and imam of the Barsuki mosque.

In the course of the visit to Azerbaijan of Peter Semneby, EU's Special Representative for South Caucasus, the issue of releasing convicted journalists was specifically raised.

In Tbilisi, under decision of the mayoralty of the capital, the authorities continue dismantling a new 13-storied apartment house erected in the city centre.