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The international organization in defence of the press named "Reporters without Borders" has again criticized the trial on the case concerning the attack on Agil Halil, a journalist of the "Azadlyg" newspaper, having called the trial to be a farce.

The Caucasus Institute in Yerevan has hosted a roundtable on the topic "Armenia in Middle-East Space: Globalization of Infrastructures". Arabist David Ovannisyan, Professor of the Yerevan State University and former Armenian ambassador to Syria, shared his opinion on the topic of debate.

Having opposed his small Georgia to great Russia, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili won expected sympathies in the West. This conclusion was made by the participants of the roundtable organized by the Abkhazian TV, namely, political scientists Liana Kvarcheliya and Arda Inal-Ipa, and Abkhazian MP Garik Samanba.

The managers of the company named AGC Flat Glass Europe, which will build a sheet glass factory in the Rostov Region near the city of Azov, has assured the city administration that it is interested to hire local people to the enterprise.

The order issued by Andranik Mirzoyan, head of the Special Investigatory Service of the Republic of Armenia, and sent to Prosecutor of maraz (region) Vayots Dzor, instructing him to prosecute supporters of Levon Ter-Petrosyan after opposition rallies is a violation of the country's Code of Criminal Procedure.

The Arbitration Court of the city of Essentuki has ascertained that the decision of the Arbitration Court of the Republic of Dagestan on the claim lodged by the Republic's Ministry for Property is legally competent and shall remain without changes, therefore, the Charitable Women's Hospital shall "abandon the illegally occupied premises" in the centre of Makhachkala.

Today, activists of the "Musavat" Party made an attempt to hold a picket in front of Baku Mayoralty with a demand to ensure the freedom of assembly. However, strengthened police units have stopped the protesters from getting close to the Mayoralty building.

On July 10, the criminal case about explosion of a passenger bus in the city of Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Territory, as a result of which 27 persons suffered, has been sent to the Stavropol Territorial Court.

The authorities of the USA are disappointed with too long investigation into the murder of the editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the Forbes Magazine Paul Khlebnikov and call on the Russian government to speed up the process.

The authorities of Abkhazia assert that high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia organized the terror act in the city of Gali on July 6, where four persons fell victim.

The West is interested not so much in the progress of democracy in Azerbaijan, but rather in Azerbaijani oil. Experts made this conclusion, while assessing the Azerbaijan's role in international relations during the pre-election period, and in democracy issues.

Today, British press published a statement of Gordon Brown, spokesman of the UK Prime Minister's Office, who criticizes recent utterances made by British counterspies on air of the BBC on involvement of Russian authorities in murdering ex-officer of the FSB Alexander Litvinenko.

A woman from the Kamyshin District, Volgograd Region, was washing her daughter in a washing machine with the motor on, for what she was sentenced to mandatory social works.

Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State, spoke, when meeting oppositional politicians, about the difficulties of building young democracy in Georgia, having noted that it cannot be done overnight.

The Administrative Court of Yerevan is considering a claim lodged by Gagik Dzhangiryan, former Deputy General Public Prosecutor, who was arrested during the post-election period and is kept in custody. The applicant claims to nullify the decrees of former President Robert Kocharyan, by which he had been dismissed and deprived of the rank of Class 1 State Adviser of Justice.

Magomed Miziev, Public Prosecutor of the Chegem District of Kabardino-Balkaria, has sent a letter to Valery Ustov, head of Investigatory Department for Kabardino-Balkaria of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, expressing his opinion that Kerim Malkarov, detained on murder suspicion, was charged without sufficient grounds.

The July 7-8 counterterrorist operation undertaken in the Khasavyurt District and the city of Khasavyurt was ethnically oriented, since only houses where Avars live were searched. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from Magomedrasul Guseinov, a resident of Khasavyurt and Deputy Chair of the Executive Committee of the Avar National Council.

Georgia has recalled her ambassador from the Russian Federation in the context of recent events in the conflict zones in Abkhazia and South Ossetia and Russia's actions. This was announced today evening by Ekaterina Tkeshelashvili, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, at a special briefing.

The law enforcement bodies of Chechnya insist that no human remains were detected in the territory of a former asphalt factory near the village of Goryacheistochnenskaya in the Grozny District of Chechnya. However, according to human rights activists, it does not mean that people were not massacred there.

The Internet edition named Presa.ge has made a decision to start on July 9 a web broadcasting of the third documentary showing falsifications of parliamentary elections in Georgia on May 21, 2008.