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Today, in Azerbaijan, the creation of new opposition "Free Democrats" Party has been announced. Sulkhaddin Akper has been elected its Chairman.

In Karachaevsk, Magomed Bidjiev, a detainee kept at the local IVS (temporary detention facility), has cut his veins because of psychological pressure put upon him by investigators and policemen. This was stated by Bela Gappoeva, an advocate from the Karachay-Cherkessian National Advocates' Chamber.

In Sochi, officials ignore the demands of mothers of large families, persons with disabilities, and ecologists. This was stated by participants of the anti-corruption rally held in Sochi. The protestors have also noted indifference of Sochi residents.

In his phone conversation with members of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch), ecologist Evgeny Vitishko has complaint about being subjected to pressure by the administration of the penal colony-settlement No. 2 of the Department for the Tambov Region of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN).

On July 5, in Georgia, the Tbilisi City Court pronounced the decision to impose an administrative penalty in the form of a fine of 100 laris (about 59 US dollars) on each of the eight protestors detained near the courthouse. The detainees attended the protest action held after the arrest of Gigi Ugulava, former Mayor of Tbilisi. They were found guilty of disorderly conduct near the courthouse.

The Azerbaijani police are investigating an incident that happened in the city of Sabirabad, in the south-west of the country, where a believer was forcibly deprived of his beard. Theologians have condemned the violent form of religious dissent.

About 100 people gathered in Sochi on Saturday for a rally against corruption in power bodies and officials' abuse of power in the sphere of land relations.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan has dismissed the appeal complaint lodged by Araz Guliev, the editor-in-chief of the religious website "Xeber44.com", who was detained at believers' protest action and sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment.

As reported by Gela Vasadze, the leader of the NGO "Free Zone", in Tbilisi, Lasha Rukhaya, an activist of the NGO, hospitalized with brain concussion during clashes with the police in front of the City Court on July 4, was forced out of hospital, despite his relatives' objections.

The Supreme Court of North Ossetia, which is trying Islam Kubachiev, 19, a resident of the village of Kizlyar, Mozdok District, accused of banditry and illegal circulation of firearms, ammunitions and explosives, has questioned the defendant, who refused to plead guilty and claimed that he had been forced by investigators to incriminate himself.

The verdict of the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya against three local residents convicted of kidnapping in 1999 of Galas Taimaskhanov, currently the Minister of Industry and Energy of Chechnya, has been left unchanged by the Supreme Court of Russia.

The border crossing points "Gukovo" and "Donetsk" have resumed normal operation, said Vasily Malaev, the spokesman for the Border Guard Department of the FSB for the Rostov Region.

The order given by the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov to his law enforcement bodies to hold a talk with the relatives of the alleged killers of policeman in Grozny is in fact a hint to a possibility of applying violence to the relatives, said the human rights activist Lev Levinson.

The Georgian oppositional "United National Movement" (UNM) and "Democratic Movement – United Georgia" Parties have stated that by scheduling the second round of municipal elections for July 12, the Central Election Commission (CEC) violated the Electoral Code.

The court in Sochi has dismissed the claim of the Mayoralty asking to recognize the construction of the building illegal and demolish the unfinished structure built near the land plot of pensioner Nina Dubovaya.

In Dagestan, locals have reported that the parishioners detained in various mosques were released. In his turn, a source from the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) said that they had detained people without documents to establish their identity.

The defence plans to appeal against the verdict passed to Omar Mamedov, a member of the "Civil Solidarity Party" (CSP) and the "Nida" movement, and a Facebook activist, sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment on charges of drug dealing. His advocates believe that the verdict was politically motivated.

The Nizami District Court of the Azerbaijani city of Ganja (Gandzha) has finished the judicial inquiry into the case opened against Gasan Guseinli, the head of the NGO "Intellectual Citizen" Educational Centre, who is accused of hooliganism.

Communists will not nominate their candidate for the governor of the Volgograd Region at the upcoming election instead of Nikolai Parshin, suspected of a fraud, because they have no time to submit the required documents.

Starting July 1, checks and mopping-up of the wooded area are undertaken near the villages of Maidanskoe and Balakhani in the Untsukul District of Dagestan, as locals told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.