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Blogger Alexander Lapshin, convicted of illegally crossing the Azerbaijani border, has refused to appeal against the verdict passed by the Baku court and decided to ask for extradition to Israel, his advocate reports.

The agreement on the Russian-Abkhazian information and coordination centre (ICC) for law enforcement agencies, ratified today by the Abkhazian Parliament, is proposed to be supplemented. This was reported by Aslan Bzhaniya, the co-chairman of the Bloc of Opposition Forces. Opponents of the ICC called for protests in front of the Abkhazian Parliament; however, no protests took place.

The salary debts to workers of the Makhachkala "Aviaagregat" Factory make 2.7 million roubles. The factory boss has been fined, the Dagestan Prosecutor's Office reports.

The provision of inaccurate information in order to obtain a Ukrainian passport was mentioned as the reason for depriving Mikhail Saakashvili of his Ukrainian citizenship.

Temur Kobaliya, the leader of the NGO "NKO-TV", has claimed the violation of the rights of Volgograd journalist Alexander Batmanov, who on June 24 jumped out of a window of the police station.

Tumso Abdurakhmanov, a native of Grozny, put in Russia on the wanted list, runs the risk of being extradited to his homeland despite a request to provide him with political refuge in Georgia. This opinion was voiced by human rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina.

According to forensic experts, Manouk Simonyan, the disappeared adviser to the Governor of the Armavir Region of Armenia, was killed several days ago.

During the European Junior Freestyle Wrestling Championship, Alik Shebzukhov, an athlete from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), has won the first place in the weight category of up to 85 kilograms.

Armenia will receive financial assistance from the United States to support Syrian refugees. An appropriate law was adopted by the House Committee on Appropriations Committee of the United States House of Representatives.

In the Prokhladnensky District Court, two witnesses testified at the trial in the case against Arkady Akopyan, the former chief of the local organization of Jehovah's Witnesses (banned in Russia). They said that they heard Arkady Akopyan delivering an extremist speech.

The film "House of Others", a debut work by director Rusudan Glurdjidze, was awarded prizes at the film festival held in the Croatian city of Pula. The film described a story of two families during the civil war in Georgia.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has agreed to consider, as a matter of priority, the complaint about the arrest of the Armenian activist Karo Egnukyan, accused of assisting the “Sasna Tsrer” detachment.

The Yerevan court has found Ani Ovannisyan, Director of the “Analitik” Press Club, guilty of extorting money from the MP Tigran Urikhanyan, but acquitted her from the episode of extorting money from the Closed Joint-Stock Company (CJSC) “VTB Bank Armenia”. Ms Ovannisyan was sentenced to 1.5 years of imprisonment.

Detentions of Chechnya residents for their dialogues by means of messengers were conducted in the cities of Shali and Grozny in early July, the edition named "Kavkaz.Realii" reports referring to a local resident.

In the Derbent District of Dagestan, residents of four villages demanded to find a new place for a landfill. They blocked the road to garbage trucks and were dispersed by policemen. The district authorities have announced that the landfill will be moved to another place.

Family members of Ruzanna Tuko, who appeared to be in the centre of the scandal with the gold medal of her classmate, were not attacked by their fellow villagers. They still live in their native village, reported residents of the village of Takhtamukai.

At the airport of Mineralnye Vody, border guards took off a plane a resident of Dagestan, who planned to leave for Syria and join militants. This was reported by the Border Guard Department of the Russian FSB Department for Kabardino-Balkaria.

The police have located the whereabouts of two wanted residents of Malgobek. They were interrogated and given out to their relatives, the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

The Senators of the Federation Council have approved the law adopted by the State Duma on introduction, in the test regime, in four Russian regions, including Stavropol and Krasnodar Territories, of fees for using the resort infrastructure.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found grounded the complaint filed by Tamerlan Eskerkhanov about the conditions of detention in the SIZO (pre-trial prison) during the investigation into the politician Boris Nemtsov's murder.