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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.

The All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan" has finished collecting signatures in support of the bill named "On Social Defence of Terror Act Victims' Rights"; they managed to gather over 1600 signatures.

The Pervomaiskiy District Court of the city of Krasnodar has left behind bars the members of the Kurmanch community - Anatoly Dursunov and Rashid Gurzhiev, who assert that they were beaten by employees of the regional department of "Gosnarkokontrol" (Federal Drug Control Agency).

The locations of some Olympic objects to be built in Sochi will be changed. This was stated by Russian Premier Vladimir Putin at a sitting on the issue of observing ecological requirements at preparation for 2014 Olympics.

Ilya Zenchenko, leader of Evangelic Baptists of Azerbaijan has condemned "the recent pressure" on the members of his community who live in the village of Aliabad of Zagatalskiy District.

Today, the Nasiminskiy District Court of Baku continued the process on Sergey Strekalin accused of inflicting on March 13, 2008, a knife wound to Agil Halil, an employee of the "Azadlyg" (Freedom) newspaper. The victim was involuntarily brought to the courtroom.

The Ombudsman for the Volgograd Region has managed to convince the GUVD (Chief Department of Internal Affairs) commanders to improve custody conditions of the suspects and detainees kept in the pre-trial detention facility of the city of Volzhskiy.

Today, the European Court for Human Rights has passed decisions on three cases of four residents of Chechnya, where Russia has been found guilty of breaching several articles of the Convention on Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

Today, Levon Zurabyan, spokesman of the Nationwide Movement of Armenia, has demanded from the authorities to find those guilty of organizing the incident in the Severny Avenue of Yerevan on July 2, when several supporters of the opposition were beaten.

According to preliminary data of the explosive-technical examination that became known today, no traces of any explosive matter have been detected in the place of explosion of house No. 39 in Lesnaya Street located in the Blinovo micro-district of the Adler District of Sochi.

Today, Anatoly Malyshev, a resident of Tuapse, has held a solo picket opposite the building of the Krasnodar Territorial Court. He tried to draw the attention of the executive and judicial powers to the problem of the tenants who are evicted from the hostel located in Zvezdnaya Street.

In Northern Caucasus, the tactics of kidnapping of those suspected of links with the armed underground is replaced by the tactics of liquidating them during special operations. We get this conclusion after analyzing the kidnapping rate versus the casualties of special operations aimed to capture those announced to be militants or their aides.

On July 1, in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, Vladimir Arakelov, 54, a resident of Zelenograd, Moscow Region, died because the medical aid was not promptly rendered. Bella Arakelova, the victim's spouse, has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about the incident.

Today in the morning, an explosion took place Khasanya village located in the suburb of the city of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, as a result of which a militiaman and his children were wounded.

The explosion that took place today at 5:01 a.m. in Sochi killed a woman, born in 1941, and her grandson, born in 1993. 16 other victims applied for medical and psychological help. One woman had a hypertonic crisis.

On July 1, the first issue of the newspaper named "Vestnik Beslana" (Beslan Mercury) appeared, where the administration of local self-government of Beslan is the founder.