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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.

Public organization "Karata" appealed to Ramazan Abdulatipov asking to engage investigators of the Russian Investigating Committee in solving the murder of Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev. In case the murder is not solved till September 5, the activists will go on an indefinite hunger strike.

On July 18, in Volgograd, activists held a rally in support of Alexei Navalny, who was sentenced to five years of imprisonment for organizing the embezzlement of the property belonging to the state enterprise "Kirovles". The participants of the action called the court's decision unfair.

Actions in support of Alexei Navalny, a candidate for the Mayor of Moscow, who was sentenced today to five years in prison, were held in Stavropol and Pyatigorsk at the same time.

A flash mob in support of Alexei Navalny, a candidate for the Mayor of Moscow, who was sentenced on July 18 to 5 years in prison on charges of embezzlement of the property of the state-owned company "Kirovles", was held in Krasnodar with participation of about 200 people.

The two persons killed during a shootout with power agents in the Lak District of Dagestan, have been preliminarily identified as Shamil Abdulmedjidov and Magomedtagir Timirchiev, the press service of the republic's MIA has reported. Abdulmedjidov and Timirchiev had been earlier put on the so-called "Khadjalmakhi execution list" and were kidnapped, their relatives assert.

Four men, who were killed in the Baksan District of Kabardino-Balkaria, were preparing a series of terror acts in the republic, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has reported.

The Nasimi District Court of Baku has rejected the motion lodged by the defence of Zaur Gurbanly, an activist of the civil movement "Nida" and a blogger, asking to put him under home arrest instead of custody.

The Commission in the US Congress for Security and Cooperation in Europe (the US Helsinki Commission) discussed the situation with democracy in Azerbaijan on the eve of the upcoming presidential election in the country.

In the suburban dwelling settlement of Vinsovkhoz of Khasavyurt, Shamil Abdulmedjidov, a local resident, born in 1983, was kidnapped. Earlier, the name of the kidnapped man was included in the "Khadjalmakhi execution list," and he became the second man from the list, whose disappearance was reported on the last day.

Khadidja Ismailova, a journalist of the Azerbaijani Branch of "Radio Liberty", has refused to perform community service in a place closed to the public. According to Khadidja Ismailova's report, she fears provocations.

A staff member of the Cherkessk SIZO (pre-trial prison) has again refused an advocate to visit her client and demanded to obtain the permission of the investigator. This was reported by Elvira Aidinova, the advocate of Abdul-Muslim Suleimanov, a native of Dagestan, accused of murder.

In anticipation of the pronouncement of the verdict to opposition activist Alexei Navalny on the case of "Kirovles", activists of nationalist organizations held actions in his support in the cities of Stavropol, Pyatigorsk, and Nevinnomyssk.

On July 17 in Makhachkala, Magomedtagir Timirchiev, whose name is on the so-called "Khadjalmakhi execution list", disappeared, said his son Magomed Timirchiev.

A citizen of Armenia Grachya Arutyunyan, accused of committing a major road accident in Podolsk, suffered abuse and humiliation after the accident, said the participants of the action in Yerevan.

The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has demanded to restrict access to the video message, posted by the leader of the "Imarat Kavkaz" Doku Umarov, and lodged a respective suit to the Leninsky District Court of Grozny.

The situation in the village of Gimry, Untsukul District of Dagestan, remains calm despite the ongoing counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, local residents report. As stated by the head of the village Aliaskhab Magomedov, the curfew that is still in force in the village was shifted to a later time for the convenience of the believers who observe the Ramadan fasting.

US Senator Lindsey Graham has called to boycott the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014, if Russia grants political asylum to former CIA employee Edward Snowden.

The "Patrioty Rossii" (Patriots of Russia) Party has decided on the candidates for the position of the leader of Dagestan to be submitted for the consideration by the President of the Russian Federation.