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Faraj Kerimli, 29, the deputy chairman of the youth organization of the oppositional "Musavat" Party, was detained today in Baku, his advocate reports. His party colleagues believe that Kerimli's detention has to do with his public and political activities and his activism on the Internet.

On July 19, the central park of the city of Maikop became the venue of a flash mob – a public action "City with a Book", held on the initiative of the National Library of Adygea. Aminat Kuchmezova, the head of the sector of mass events of the library, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the main task of the action was to promote reading.

The daily inflow of Ukrainian refugees to the Rostov Region makes 1500-2000 persons, while other regions accommodate some 300-500 people each, Vasily Golubev, the Rostov Governor, told the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The Governor believes that the flow of immigrants to other regions should be doubled.

Aslan Beshto, the chairman of the public movement "Kabardian Congress" (Nalchik), told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that Canada had launched the International Circassian Organization to Support Repatriation, intended to work exclusively within the humanitarian aspect. Beshto is a member of its executive committee.

The man shot dead on July 21 in a shootout in the Novoselitskoe District of Stavropol Territory is Almaz Abdulnasyrov, a resident of the village of Kara-Tobe, Neftekumsk District, says his wife. She questions the power agents' version of the incident, in which the man was shot dead.

Last night, law enforcers of the capital of Dagestan conducted mass detentions of mosque-goers in Hungarian Fighters Street, according to eyewitnesses. Several worshipers from the mosque in Kotrov Street were also taken to the police.

The lawyer Arsen Radjabov, who is defending Isa Abdulkadyrov, detained in Dagestan on suspicion of illegal possession of firearms, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that investigators ignore the statement about violation by policemen of his client's rights.

Today, employees of the oppositional newspaper "Azadlyg" (Freedom) have held a picket outside the offices of the state company for distributing the press named "Gasid" with a demand to repay the debt the company owes to the newspaper.

Leonid Roshal, the Director of the Moscow Institute of Children's Emergency Surgery and Traumatology, told today the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the girl of four, who was beaten up in Grozny, is in grave condition and cannot be transported to Moscow.

As a result of a car explosion in Nagorno-Karabakh, today Ruben Khlgatyan, the Mayor of the city of Armavir in Armenia, was wounded. His driver was killed; two other passengers of the car were also wounded.

Nuriyan Abdulaeva, a resident of the settlement of Tarki of Makhachkala, reports about disappearance of her husband Asoltan Amaev, suspecting that he could be kidnapped by power agents. The Sovietskiy ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala reports that Amaev was not taken there.

Today, Volgograd hosted an action in support of Nikolai Parshin, an MP of the Russian State Duma. The participants of the rally have treated the criminal case initiated against the first secretary of the Stalingrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), as "ordered".

The NGO named "Transparency International-Georgia" has appealed to country's top managers trying to draw their attention to the fact that some employees of local bodies of power receive undeserved monetary bonuses.

Sochi has begun reinforcing the embankment in the Imereti Lowland. The structures, which are washed off during every violent storm, are being built for six years, said Natalia Kalinovskaya, the head of the Comradeship of Public Government (known as TOS) "Psou".

Ukrainian mass media have spread information about detention in the Lugansk Region of Tamerlan Enaldiev, the Assistant to the Defence Minister of South Ossetia. In his turn, Valery Yakhnovets, the Minister of Defence, said that the man detained in the Lugansk Region is not his assistant.

The Investigating Department for Chechnya will check the actions of the agents of the Soviet NKVD for their involvement in crimes against humanity in the case of the massacre of civilians committed in February 1944 in the village of Khaibakh, Lev Ponomaryov, the leader of the movement "For Human Rights", said on July 21.

In the case of the attempt on Ararat Dovmalov, the Speaker of the City Duma of Zheleznovodsk, along with the version of hooliganism, other versions are considered, including the professional activities of the politician, said the Investigating Department (ID) for the Stavropol Territory of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Azamat Tazhayakov, a student from Kazakhstan was found guilty by jurymen of a conspiracy and obstructing the justice in the case on the terror act committed during the Boston Marathon.

A video record of the burial of Doku Umarov, who was killed, according to various versions of power agents, during a special operation in late 2013 – early 2014, was posted on July 19 on the websites, which support the militants of Northern Caucasus.

As reported today by the Russia's Ministry of Justice (MoJ), five organizations have been added to the registry of the non-profit organizations (NPOs) - "foreign agents", including the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".