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On July 22, two out of three candidates, who ran for the Chlous constituency No. 26 in the Ochamchira District of Abkhazia, won most of the votes and passed over to the second round, namely: the businessman Beslan Butba, the leader of the Party of Economic Development of Abkhazia; and Beslan Tarba, the deputy head of the State Administration of Abkhazia for Transports and Communications.

The main motive for the crimes committed by Sergey Tsapok and members of his gang in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, was revenge. This was announced today at a press conference in Rostov-on-Don by officials of the Department for the Southern Federal District (SFD) of the Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO). The case of crimes committed by the gang, including the massacre committed in Ametov's house, will be considered by the Krasnodar Territorial Court with participation of a jury.

The investigation examines several versions within the criminal case on the mass brawl in Kislovodsk; however, inspectors see no motives of nationalistic or religious hatred, reports the Investigatory Department for the Stavropol Territory of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Zaur Dzeitov, an officer of Ingush police, sent on a mission to Chechnya, has disappeared under mysterious circumstances in Grozny. This was reported by his relatives, who turned to one of Chechen public organizations.

On July 21, in the house of Shakhban Gasanov, a resident of the village of Chernyaevka, Kizlyar District of Dagestan, who was detained on suspicion of involvement in the armed underground, power agents found weapons. Gasanov's relatives assert that they were planted.

The ruling Georgian party "United National Movement" has stated that it will conclude an agreement with every Georgian family on fulfilment of promises within the governmental programme "More Good to People". The opposition urges the population not to support the initiative.

All the life support systems in the city of Krymsk, affected by flood, operate in the normal mode, Colonel-General Yuri Kovalyov, Director of the Department for Regional Policy of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), said on July 21. Volunteers disagree with the statement.

Representatives of the coalition of the businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili "Georgian Dream" have sent a request to the inter-branch commission for monitoring the elections to recheck the case of the activists of the coalition, who had been sentenced to 15 days in jail on charges of involvement in the riots that burst out in the village of Karaleti.

Magomed Sulaev, a resident of Dagestan, who was detained on July 20 and whose relatives said that he had been kidnapped by unidentified persons, was found at the Khasavyurt ROVD (District Interior Division) and released. Mr Sulaev told his advocate that Anvar Guseinov, who was detained together with him, was severely beaten.

Two leading Russian human rights organizations – the "Memorial" and "For Human Rights" – are not going to refuse from foreign grants, despite the law that assumes the status of "a foreign agent" for non-commercial organizations (NCOs) funded from abroad. Human rights defenders also plan to challenge this law at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Two militants have been liquidated in a special operation in Dagestan. One of them is Temirbek Temirbekov, the leader of the so-called "Kizilyurt" grouping, law enforcers report.

Today, in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), in the course of operative-search actions, law enforcers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and FSB Department for the KBR have liquidated an alleged militant.

With the aim to reduce noise during construction of a sewer, conducted in Sochi by the Closed Joint-Stock Company (CJSC) "PRiSS", noise-protection screens will be installed, Vladimir Vasilenko, Deputy Chief Engineer of the Company said on July 20 during a meeting with Sochi residents.

It is desirable that the Armenian government could help the Syrian Armenians, who have arrived in Armenia, to solve the problems of housing and employment, Tigran Gaboyan, a Syrian writer of Armenian origin, said on July 20 at a press conference.

Relatives of two local residents kidnapped today from the mosque in the village of Bairam, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, announced their plans to hold a protest actions if the young men were not released by the morning of July 21.

The Magistrate Court of the Kirov District of Astrakhan has fined Alexander Kirpichenko, a participant of the action for preservation of greenery in the city Kremlin, by 20,000 roubles.

Anzor Utov, 21, a resident of the village of Kishpek, Baksan District, has stated his illegal detention, beating and use of torture against him by law enforcers. He asserts that policemen had planted pistol cartridges into his pocket and forced him to declare that he tried to shoot at them from the pistol he had allegedly received from an earlier killed member of the armed underground.

President of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov has signed a pardon of three Georgian citizens who had been kept in Tskhinvali prison. Shota Makharashvili, Georgy Mairamidze and Otar Djovakhi were set free.

The rescuers of emergency situations service of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Georgia retrieved dead bodies of Ukrainian Alpinists who perished on July, 17, while descending from Ushba mountain.

The Astrakhan Regional Court has repeatedly convicted ten officers of the Traffic Police (known as GIBDD) of the Regional Interior, who figured in the case of systematic bribe-taking and sentenced them to imprisonment for 3.5-8 years, the Regional Prosecutor's Office has reported today.