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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.

Early in the morning on July 21, the camp of radical ecologists in Angarsk (Irkutsk Region), who are holding a protest action against processing of nuclear wastes at the Angarsk Electrolysis Chemical Combine, was attacked by a group of about 20 unknown persons. The eyewitness has supposed that among the victims there could be activists from the South Federal District (SFD) of Russia.

Sergey Nasibyan, Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Nagorno-Karabakh, has announced preliminary results of the elections.

A press conference on the topic "Recognition of the fact of cleansings of Christian population in Meskhetiya (Georgia) in 1918-1919" has been held today by the NGO "National Education Union" in the "Sumshoblo" Publishing House.

During a joint spot-check of the territory of the Svetloyarskiy District, Volgograd Region, the Information Centre (IC) "Volgograd-Ecopress" and the Greenpeace international ecological organization revealed a small lake full of liquid of unknown origin.

It has become known to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev can pardon the arrested journalists only if they lodge respective pardon petitions.

On July 19, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" made a statement on tragic events in Ingushetia.

On May 13 in the city of Karabulak, Ingushetia, a special targeted operation was conducted by employees of the FSB Department for the Republic jointly with representatives of the Department for Public Safety of the RF Ministry of Internal Affairs and Investigatory group of the RF State Office of Public Prosecutor for the South Federal District (SFD), as a result of which Azamat Gorbakov, a local resident of 24, was detained.

The European Court for Human Rights has satisfied the complaint of Mikhail Trepashkin, retired FSB colonel, against his custody conditions at the Pre-Trial Detention Facility (SIZO) of the Department of Internal Affairs of the city of Dmitrov.

According to Sergey Nasibyan, Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), out of 92,117 voters in the lists, 70,235 persons, or 76.25 percent, have cast their ballot papers.

Today, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has upheld the guilty verdict to two natives of Chechnya - Bislan Badalov and Hasambek Ahmetkhanov - and their accomplices condemned by the Tver Regional Court for kidnapping and extortion.

Today, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, the correspondent of the IA "Regnum" and a number of other journalists who have been long working in the Republic were not admitted to the press conference of Oleg Zharikov, newly-appointed Public Prosecutor of Kabardino-Balkaria.

Armenians have erased ancient inscriptions and pictures from the walls of the "Sary Musa" sanctuary in the Hachyntyurbetli village of the occupied Agdam District. Instead, they pictures crosses and inscriptions in the Armenian language.

On July 13 and 16, the electoral headquarters of Masis Mailyan, candidate for President of Nagorno-Karabakh, sent complaints to the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), which listed more than 40 facts of possible law violations.

The law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia continue to investigate into the murder accomplished at night on July 16 in the centre of Ordzhonikidzevskaya village, Sunzha District of Ingushetia.