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Anatoly Karibov, the First Deputy Prime Minister Dagestan, has been appointed to be the Acting Prime Minister after the Acting Head of the Republic Ramazan Abdulatipov dismissed the government for poor performance.

Sappers have defused the two bombs found last night at a mosque in Khasavyurt; the power of each of them was about 40 kilograms of TNT (trotyl) equivalent, law enforcement sources report.

Under the updated version of the law "On Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO)", the local NPOs will now have to provide information to regulatory authorities about the funding sources of their projects and programmes, says the local Ministry of Justice (MoJ).

In the Altai Territory, the main prize of the 15th Shukshin Film Festival, held on July 18-21, was awarded to two films – the Armenian movie "If Only Everyone" by Natalya Belyauskene and "The Daughter" by Alexander Kasatkin and Natalya Nazarova.

Alla Kurbanova was detained by Dagestani law enforcers in Makhachkala on suspicion of illegal possession of firearms and ammunition, including the so-called "shahid belt". Her father asserts that his daughter is innocent.

The managers of the village of Sabnava, Derbent District of Dagestan, have incorrectly compiled the list of victims of the flood in October 2012, while the payment of compensations is accompanied by violations, local residents assert.

A presidential candidate Merab Gorgadze was detained in Batumi, for disorderly conduct at a protest rally against the primaries of the "United National Movement" (UNM). The Batumi Court released Gorgadze after imposing a fine.

Over 500 Muslims of the religious communities of the towns of Yakhroma and Domodedovo were detained by law enforcers. Most of them returned home on the same day, believers report.

The Investigative Committee of the Krasnodar Territory has opened a criminal case against a local man who had allegedly posted an article justifying terrorism on the Internet.

German authorities have announced a sharp increase in the current year of the number of applications for political asylum filed by natives of Chechnya. Rights defenders see the reason for the increase in some unreliable rumours about facilitating the receipt of the refugee status in this country and the atmosphere of fear in the republic.

According to Tatiana Lokshina, the deputy head of the Moscow bureau of the Human Rights Watch, the set up of the Human Rights Council Created under the head of Chechnya was purely decorative in nature, while its appointed chairman Timur Aliev will not be able to change the situation.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled on the case "Tazieva et al versus Russia", finding a violation of an Article of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and awarded a compensation of moral damage to the victims of five thousand euros.

A group of young Circassians representing Diasporas from different countries have climbed the western peak of Mount Elbrus, at the altitude of 5642 meters above sea level.

Journalists in Azerbaijan are still experiencing difficulties with access to information and are subjected to pressure. This is stated in the report, presented on July 19 by the Media Rights Institute (MRI) "Azerbaijan: State of Media Freedom in First Half of 2013".

Four masked men attacked Eldar Nazaraliev, the deputy chairman of the Committee on Tourism, and tried to kidnap him, said the spokesman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan.

On July 19, plenty of A4 size leaflets with portraits of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny and slogans in his support appeared in the streets of Krasnodar.

Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, has begun building the State Museum of Armenian Genocide –the first one outside Armenia.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of South Ossetia has announced an unscheduled inspection of political associations concerning the membership of militaries in political parties. The procedure began on July 8 and will be over on July 31.

In Azerbaijan, the health condition of Dashgyn Melikov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), who is kept in custody, has deteriorated; and he was taken into the prison hospital, said his father Alisafa Melikov.

In Dagestan, the rights of detainees to defence are massively violated, lawyers assert. They intend to raise the issue at a press conference scheduled for July 31 at the Bar building in Makhachkala, Dagestan.