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The Ninth International "Golden Apricot" Film Festival will open in Yerevan on July 8 with screening of the Amo Beknazaryan's film "Shor and Shorshor". This year, the festival received a record number of applications – 1250; of them, 150 films from 44 countries were selected.

The Board of Elders of the Kumyk Nation asks to include their representative into the Council of Interethnic Relations under the President of the Russian Federation. A respective appeal to President Vladimir Putin was adopted at the sitting of the Board on July 7 in Makhachkala.

A resident of Krasnodar Uliana Kononovich has announced through social networks a start of the campaign to collect donations for flood victims in the Krymsk District of the Krasnodar Territory. More than twenty persons have already reacted.

Today, more than 30 children, who were taking their rest in the Astrakhan children's camp "Chudotvory", asked for medical help with symptoms of food poisoning. 14 of them were hospitalized.

At night on July 7, in the Krymsk District of the Krasnodar Territory water went up by four meters. The locals are convinced that the cause of flooding was the opening of floodgates of the Neverdjayev storage reservoir.

Today, in Makhachkala, the "Dynamo" Stadium has hosted a rally in support of the local "Anji" Football Club (FC), which was banned by the UEFA to hold Europa League in Dagestan for security reason. The protesters adopted a resolution calling the UEFA to set up and send a commission of independent experts to Makhachkala to make an objective decision.

A relative of one of the protesting inmates told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that some 40-60 persons kept in Makhachkala SIZO (pre-trial prison), dissatisfied with their custody conditions, went on a hunger strike.

On July 6, the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev signed a law on amending the Law "On Receipt of Information". Public activists were against the amendments, as they saw a restriction on the freedom of information and press in these innovations.

On July 6, a unit of 35 Armenia's peacemakers left for Kosovo.

More than 50 organizations of the "Public Environmental Alliance" have sent a letter to Ovik Abramyan, Chairman of the National Assembly of Armenia, and Samvel Balasanyan, Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on Agriculture and Environment, asking to nullify the decision to take out water from Lake Sevan. 20 public organizations of the Gegharkunik region have addressed Ovik Abramyan with the same request.

The Board of Veterans of War, Labour, Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Bodies have spoken against demolition of Polyclinic No. 1 in Konstitutsii Street, which is servicing about one hundred thousand people living in the Central and Khosta Districts of Sochi. According to the administration of the polyclinic, no demolition is planned; the staff will just move to another building for the time of repairs.

Mirza Omariev, the former Director General of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Dagestani Airlines", and the current company boss Zhabir Abakarov are suspected of abusing their service power by the amount of more than 230 million roubles, according to the website of the Chief Department of the MIA of the NCFD.

The Russian State Duma has stripped immunity from Vladimir Bessonov and consented to instituting a criminal case against the MP from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), who is accuses the consequence of resisting police during an election event in Rostov-on-Don on December 2, 2011.

In the Dagestani village of Leninkent, after the Friday prayers, masked gunmen killed two parishioners, a believer who preferred to remain anonymous, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Today, the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) hosts celebrations dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the Karachay-Cherkessian Autonomous Region (known as KChAO) and the Day of Unity of KChR nations. Because of the double holiday, July 6 was announced a day off.

On July, 5, residents of Armenia celebrated the 17th anniversary of adoption of the Constitution. All the sectors of society guided by the Constitution must eliminate the existing unconformity between the proclaimed values and reality, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan declared on the occasion of the holiday.

A mass scuffle with the participation of natives of Northern Caucasus during which six persons got injured took place this morning in the South-West of the capital, a source in law enforcement bodies reported. Press service of the Department of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the capital mentions eight sufferers.

On July, 5, a group of writers and publicists of Azerbaijan held a discussion about the arrest of two young Azerbaijani poets, Farid Gusein and Shahriyar Gajizade, in Iran. During the discussion it was decided to create a committee for protection of the arrested poets.

Unidentified people committed an assault at writer Vagram Saakyan. He underwent cruel beating and is currently staying at home with a violent headache, Aram Antinyn, Editor-in-Chief of "Blognews" media, reported.

The Internet has disseminated an appeal of a group of armed men, threatening militants and personally Temirbek, a certain "Amir of the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan" and calling on them to lay down their arms. The video record has caused widespread debate among web users. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan has begun to examine the video record, and it promises to punish under the law for extrajudicial executions.