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Zaza Saralidze, father of one of the murdered schoolboys, decided to stop his protest action held near the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia. He has made the decision after the today's meeting with MIA heads.

In the city of Izberbash, Dagestan, townspeople have gathered for a rally at the building of city administration with a demand to resume the supply of drinking water. Calls were heard among the protesters to block the federal highway.

After the residents of the village of Novokorsunskoye blocked the Timashevsk-Korenovsk highway, the territorial authorities have increased the amount of compensations due to them for the houses damaged by hail.

A preliminary hearing in the case against Pavel Grib will be held behind closed doors. A father of the Ukrainian citizen, accused in terrorism, reported that his son felt bad.

On July 5, the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya will consider a motion filed by the defence of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" office in Grozny, to transfer the consideration of the case to another region.

Zarema Bagavutdinova, a staff member of the Dagestani organization "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy), was released from the penal colony, where she had completely served five years of her imprisonment, with a delay of six hours.

Colonel General Mikael Harutyunyan, who in March 2008 held the position of the Armenian Defence Minister, was accused of overthrowing the constitutional order in connection with the dispersal of protest actions, investigators report today.

The parliamentary investigating commission has issued a recommendation to start the criminal proceedings against one of the main witnesses in the case on the murder of teenagers in Tbilisi. Zaza Saralidze, a father of one of the murdered schoolboys is seeking such a decision from the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

In Stepanavan, according to investigators, four officials registered benefits in favour of local residents without their knowledge and embezzled the money, the Armenian police reports today.

Today, the preliminary court hearing on the case against Oyub Titiev, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" office in Grozny has been postponed because of the advocates' request to hold a trial in another region.

Investigators have officially charged Aslan Gagiev, a native of the Ossetian village of Bolkvi, with organizing a criminal community and killing entrepreneurs, the "Kommersant" has reported today.

It was decided to hold the second stage of the Russian championship in drag racing, scheduled for early August, in the capital of Chechnya, as the racing ground in Nalchik is not yet ready for the competition, the race organizers have stated.

Prison No. 7 in Gulua Street in Tbilisi has been closed at the demand of rights defenders. For twenty years of its existence, the prison failed to create normal custody conditions, Gela Nikoleishvili, a rights defender, has stated.

Tamara Mearakishvili, a South-Ossetian activist, who went on a hunger strike in connection with the criminal prosecution, including on charges of defaming the ruling party "United Ossetia", demanded from local authorities to stop putting pressure on her. She decided to hold the protest action at home, fearing provocations.

Mass media of Georgia have released information about relative ties of Temirlan Machalikashvili, killed in an operation in Pankisi, with Akhmed Chataev, and also about Machalikashvili's intention to commit self-explosion in a crowded place in Tbilisi.

The Belgian team has beaten the Japanese one 3:2 in a 1/8 final match of the FIFA World Cup held in Rostov-on-Don. Fans from different countries watched the meeting in the fan zone in Theatre Square.

Rostov-on-Don law enforcers have called the activist Anastasia Shevchenko and warned her about the inadmissibility of extremism. However, Anastasia believes that her stripping action helped to draw attention to the problem.

Today, the court has pronounced the decision to fine Ivan Tansky, a coordinator of the Alexei Navalny's office in Stavropol, 150,000 roubles for organizing an unsanctioned action.

Today, Zaza Saralidze has started a hunger strike in a yard of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). The man demands from investigators to detain one of the main witnesses, whom he considers involved in the murder of his son.

The funds are aimed to ensure that external perimeters of school buildings are equipped with CCTV cameras, an official from the Georgian Ministry of Education has announced today.