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According to the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot", the murder of Ilyas Ilyasov, Imam and theologian, committed in Makhachkala, became the twelfth case of violent death of Islamic religious leaders in Northern Caucasus during 2012 and 2013.

Activists of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" demanded to stop the construction of an entertainment facility that was started on August 2 in the "Bolshoy Utrish" Reserve.

In the KrasnodarTerritory, the court found members of the Gelendzhik Human Rights Centre (GHRC) guilty in the case of fraud and sentenced them to 8-13 years of imprisonment.

Father of anaesthesiologist Marat Gunashev, suspected of the murder of the chief of the Makhachkala Police, has asked human rights defenders to provide assistance in investigating his son's case and bringing it to trial.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by a source from the Investigating Department for Dagestan of the ICRF that an Imam of a Makhachkala mosque was killed tonight in the course of shelling; his driver was wounded.

The Baku police have prevented a protest action of women-journalists demanding to stop blackmailing and interfering into the privacy of their colleague Khadidja Ismailova, an employee of the Azerbaijani service of Radio Liberty. All the participants of the action and the journalists who covered it were detained by the police.

The theologian Javid Mamedov is back at large in Azerbaijan, said Emil Mamedov, the head of the NGO "In Support of Democracy". Mamedov was detained on October 19, 2012, and accused of organizing a believers' action in defence of the religious hijab.

Sochi residents express their outrage with the poor quality of repairs of roads, pavements and house-adjoining territories. In particular, in the Tsentralny District, the streets named after Gorky, Voikov, Pervimaiskaya, Sebastopol, Titov, Tuapse, Dagomys, Kubanskaya, Theatrical and Ordzhonikidze, and Kurortny Avenue remained unrepaired.

On August 4, a number of European cities will hold actions in support of Ales Bialiatski, the head of the human rights centre "Viasna" and Vice-President of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), who was sentenced in Belarus.

Up to 15 people have come today to picket against the operation of the metallurgical factory of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Electrozink" in Vladikavkaz, said German Revazov, the organizer of the action and an activist of the movement "Stop 'Electrozink'!" and the environmental organization "Novoe Vremya".

The Seventh International Arts Symposium "Alanika" was launched on August 1 in Vladikavkaz. During the event artistic workers Italy, Turkey, Germany, Israel, Serbia, Croatia, Great Britain, Georgia and Azerbaijan will implemented their projects in the field of contemporary arts.

On August 2, in Sochi, investigators resumed checking the information that the builder Mardiros Demerchyan had been beaten by policemen. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Artyom Semenets, an investigator from the Adler Division of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Musa Pliev, a lawyer from the Bar "Musaev and Partners", has told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that on August 1 an agreement was signed on provision of legal aid by the Bar to the persons detained during the anti-crime cleansing of the Matveevsky Marketplace.

Today, by decision of the Khatai District Court of Baku, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "P.S. Nota" and the on-line edition "www.psnota.com" Sardar Alibeili was arrested for 2 months for hooliganism.

Residents of the city of Sochi have complained that due to power outage for almost 24 hours in the neighbourhood "Gagarinsky" they suffered material losses because of spoiled foodstuffs, medicines and broken electrical appliances.

Today, the Court of Arbitration of the Stavropol Territory has held a session on the combined process dealing with the construction in process in Kulakov Avenue, where earlier employees of the city administration saw signs of a mosque. The trial was adjourned until July 8.

In the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), Andrei Gonibov, a former helicopter pilot-navigator from the special-purpose aviation detachment of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), is seeking reinstatement at work and claims that he was dismissed on trumped-up reasons.

Today, at public transport stops, activists of the initiative group "We'll pay 100 drams!" were handing out leaflets calling to dismiss the head of the transport department of Yerevan Genrik Navasardyan and the director of "Yerevantrans" Misak Ambartsumyan.

An action in support of the four oppositional activists of the Armenian National Congress (ANC), convicted of disorderly conduct and resistance to the police, was held today in Yerevan. The participants demanded a fair consideration of their cases by the Court of Appeal (CoA).

The Russia's Supreme Court (SC) has reduced the sentence to two defendants on charges of riots in the village of Sagra, Sverdlovsk Region, during which a native of Azerbaijan was killed. Artyom Rabadanov and Shota Katamadze were released in the courtroom.