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On June 29, 2007, the network of the Civil Society "Refugees and International Law" sent the first package with Azerbaijani refugees' petitions, addressed to the authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), to the NKR President.

In the morning on July 3, at its extraordinary session, the National Assembly of Armenia failed to vote on the bill of amendments to the current laws "On Television and Radio" and "On State Duties."

The Swiss Zurich canton court has cut the prison term for Vitaly Kaloev, a Russian citizen and resident of North Ossetia, down to 5 years and three months.

Roman Belan, advocate of Andrei Keilin, a native of Cherkessk, 20, detained on suspicion of murdering two Stavropol students, has addressed the Ombudsman for the Stavropol Territory Alexei Selyukov with a complaint against illegal, in the opinion of the defence, arrest and detention of his client.

In Chechnya, mass burials can keep remains of more than three thousand persons, both peaceful citizens and Russian servicemen.

The Elborus District Court of Kabardino-Balkaria passed a verdict of guilty to three employees of the Elborus District Interior Department (ROVD) for abuse of their official powers.

The situation in the Georgia-South Ossetia conflict zone is growing still tenser; it is deliberately aggravated and can get out of control, lieutenant colonel Yuri Vereschak, commander's assistant of the Mixed Peacekeeping Forces (MPKF) in the Georgia-Ossetia conflict zone, has stated today.

The defense of Mikhail Trepashkin convicted for the disclosure of a state secret claim that the convict's health has deteriorated.

The first instance court of communities Center and Nork-Marash, Yerevan, has extended for two months the arrest of Alexander Arzumanian, former head of the Armenian MFA, accused of money laundering.

Boris Stomakhin, author of the "Caucasus-Center" site, convicted for instigating racial hostility and extremism, has been transferred from Moscow to Nizhni Novgorod pre-trial prison.

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee on Natural Heritage and the World Conservation Union (IUCN) intend to dispatch an official expert mission for evaluating the condition of the "Western Caucasus", Russian object of the World Natural Heritage located in the vicinity of Sochi.

A film festival dedicated to the life of refugees in modern Russia has been completed. Employees of the "Civil Assistance" Committee showed the few visitors of the Moscow club "Gerry Rubin" a number of films shot by young film directors together with some human rights organizations.

The participants of recent "Disagreement March" in Riazan are being beaten and tortured by militia. The oppositionists intend to complain to the prosecutor's office.

In the course of a press-conference in Washington, Fatima Tlisova, chief editor of the North Caucasus IA Regnum, and Yuri Bagrov, Radio "Liberty" observer in Vladikavkaz, claim that the reasons for their escape are "numerous threats and persecution on the part of FSB and impossibility to freely do one's work."

President Putin is in Kennebunk, and whilst the local clam chowder restaurant translated their menu into Russian, the protesters demanded peace for Chechnya and compared Russian invasion to that of the situation in Iraq.

A man and a woman have been wounded during the shooting in South Ossetia. They are Yuriy Maisuradze, a Georgian, and Biazrova Asiat, an Ossetin. In its turn, it is reported from Georgia that today, a teenager has been killed in the Georgian village of Tamarasheni.

The arrest of Rizvan Talybov, chair of the committee to protect the rights of Ali Insanov, former minister of health, has been extended for yet one more month.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is concerned about an attack of Russian officers on Nukri Kacharayev, cameraman of the MZE independent Georgian TV company, when he was covering the withdrawal of Russian military machinery from the military base in Batumi (Ajaria, Georgia) on June 28.

Today morning, Nizami Ghuliyev, resident of Balakian and head of the local unit of the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan, has opened fire from a hunting rifle at police officers who came to his house. Nizami Ghuliyev, father of six children, has been unable to find a job due to political reasons.

A response has come to the photo-report on the situation of cheated shareholders in Stavropol, sent to Cezare Ottolini, president of "International Alliance of Residents" and representative of UN-Habitat.