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The investigatory committee of the investigatory department for the Kirovskiy District of Makhachkala, which operates under the prosecutor's office, has recognized the journalists of the "Nastoyascheye Vremya" (Present Time) newspaper to be victims in the criminal case initiated against Director General of the edition Rizvan Rizvanov. The corresponding decisions were issued to journalists on July 8.

In Georgia, the Republican Party demands to suspend making amendments in the law "On Citizens' Political Associations", asserting that it will strike the opposition. This was stated on July 8 by David Usupashvili, one of the leaders of the Party.

A boy of 14 from South Ossetia, who disappeared in the evening of July 7, was accused by the Georgian party of espionage and released by Georgia on the following day, July 8, is in a shock condition.

Representatives of ecological organizations assert that the decision of Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin to move a number of Olympic objects away from the Grushevoy Ridge in the Krasnodar Territory does not solve all the environmental problems of the region.

The establishment of the Committee in Defence of Political Prisoners and Repressed Persons was announced today at the press conference that took place in the office of the People's Party of Armenia.

On July 9, the Nasiminskiy District Court of the capital of Azerbaijan, presided by Judge Shain Abdullaev, finished the judicial investigation on Sergey Strekalin's case, accused of inflicting on March 13 a knife wound to the journalist of the "Azadlyg" (Freedom) newspaper.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has made a statement in support of imprisoned journalist Armand Babadzhanyan's petition on early release.

The Krasnodar Department of the Russian Environment Supervisory Agency ("Rosprirodnadzor") believes that many ecological organizations are deliberately by the actions hampering the resort season. In their turn, ecologists declare that the authorities are concealing the truth about the situation in the Kerch Strait.

Today, Eka Beseliya, secretary general of the oppositional party "For United Georgia", held a press conference, where she called the Georgian public to financially support the sole oppositional TV Company "Kavkasia", the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

In the near future, the editor-in-chief of the weekly named "Chernovik" (Blueprint) is going to protest against the decision of the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan, by which the edition was warned on inadmissibility to breach the Federal Law "On Counteracting Extremist Activities".

The resident of Dagestan, who has been found today in Kizlyar, could have been kidnapped with the aim to exchange him for the girl, who had run away with his relative, as her parents were against their wedding.

Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General, has condemned the recent explosions in the territory of Abkhazia and called to hold an investigation of these incidents and bring the criminals to responsibility.

On July 7, when a counterterrorist operation was conducted in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, a family of a lawyer and a federal judge suffered.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that Rosa Khalishkhova, a resident of the city of Nartkala, Kabardino-Balkaria, who lost her son during the war in Chechnya, has adjudged 200,000 roubles from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Russian Federation as compensation of her moral damage.

Advocates of Ali Insanov, ex-Minister of Public Health of Azerbaijan, who is serving his imprisonment, have applied to the European Court for Human Rights because of bad custody conditions of their client at the Penitentiary Establishment No. 13.

Abkhazia is addressing the G8, the UN Security Council, the OSCE and the Group of Friends of the UN Secretary General with an appeal "to take adequate measures for suppressing the threat of terrorism originating from Georgia, since ignoring of such serious provocations can lead to irreversible escalation of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict."

President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh has announced that after the recent terror acts in the territory of his Republic, Abkhazia suspends all contacts with Georgia.

Karel Schwartzenberg, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Czech Republic, who made a three-day official visit to Yerevan, had a meeting late at night on July 6 with Levon Ter-Petrosyan, leader of Armenian opposition.

Today, the Moscow-Baku train was 45 minutes late in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, because it was stopped at the Kizlyar station by residents of the village of Kachalay, who demanded from law enforcement bodies to take active steps in searching their fellow villager kidnapped yesterday.

Boris Malkarov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, has addressed his complaint to the Prosecutor's office of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), public human rights organizations and mass media stating that a murder criminal case is fabricated against his son Kerim Malkarov, 26, an employee of the "Children's World" trade enterprise.