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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.

Baku Court of Appeal (CoA) has separately considered the complaints of youth activists Ulvi Gasanli, Majid Mardjanly and Kenan Gasymly, who are kept under administrative arrest. Young people asked to declare the illegality of their arrest and release them from detention. The complaints were dismissed.

The Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has appointed Timur Aliev as the Chairman of the Human Rights Council, the press service of the Chechen president and government has reported.

NGO activists have claimed a falsification that took place at Volgograd public hearing on the project of embankment reconstruction; they now intend to cancel its results in court.

On July 18, the suspects kept in the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the city of Cherkessk attempted to launch a rebellion, said the advocate of one of them, adding that it was caused by violations made by law enforcers.

On July 19, the Kirov Regional Court released Alexei Navalny, a convicted opposition member and a blogger, a candidate for the position of Mayor of Moscow, on recognizance not to leave the country during the appeal process.

On July 18, in Rostov-on-Don, in Lenin Square, people gathered spontaneously in support of Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition figure and blogger. Participants of the gathering state that the action, the details of which were spread in social networks, was attended by about 100 persons.

The public conference in Nalchik discussed the problem of conservation and development of national languages Kabardian and Balkar ones. Participants of the conference expressed the need to increase the enrolment of students in the departments of national languages at the local higher education institutions.

Said Amirov, who was dismissed from his position of Mayor of Makhachkala and accused of killing an investigator, was transferred back to SIZO (pre-trial prison) from the hospital, to which he was earlier brought for the medical examination.