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Alaudin Almurziev, a native of Ingushetia, who is serving his sentence in the Kamchatka Region, has gone on his third hunger strike demanding to stop the lawlessness, perpetrated by the colony staff, his mother Raishat Kokurkhoeva told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The amendments to the Family Code proposed by the government of Armenia, according to which the official marriage in the country is allowed after 19 years of age regardless of gender, were negatively met by the Azidi community in Armenia.

In the course of a special operation undertaken in the evening on July 26 in the village of Alburikent near Makhachkala, one of the women – Saidat Yusupova – blew herself up, the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) reports.

The case of Champion in Mixed Martial Arts Rasul Mirzaev after whose blow a nineteen-years-old Muscovite Ivan Agafonov perished is under consideration in Zamoskvotetsky court of Moscow today. The defendant’s girl-friend Alla Kosogorova who was present at the scene of the conflict in “Garage” club was interrogated in court. Physicians of the hospital where Agafonov was taken also evidenced in court.

Evgeny Gurov, who was sentenced in the Krasnodar Territory to 12 years of imprisonment and who had been initially detained on the massacre case in Kuschevskaya, but then charged with other offences, has appealed against the verdict, said the spokeswoman for the office of the Kuschevskaya District Court.

The thirtieth Olympic Games start in London today. The capital of Great Britain has become the Olympic host for already the third time. Athletes from the Caucasus will also participate in the competitions, generally in power and combat kinds of sport: Greco-Roman style, freestyle wrestling, women’s style, judo, tae kwon do, boxing and weight lifting.

Relatives of Magomed Sulaev, earlier released resident of Khasavyurt district, reported that on July, 26, a suspicious car with tinted window glasses, without vehicle identification numbers was staying near his house the whole day. They fear that Magomed might be kidnapped again.

On July, 26, Mkhitar Alumyan, ex-officer of the Armenian police who earlier committed an attempt of self-immolation in front of the President’s residence, went on a hunger strike near the police office demanding compensation for overtime in law enforcement bodies.

On July 22, inmate of the Nalchik SIZO (pre-trial prison) organized a mass protest action and rejected aluminium utensils, provide to them at the SIZO. According to the participants of the protest action, arrested persons, diagnosed with tuberculosis and prisoners, belonging to "lower caste", ate from their dishes.

Armenians of Syria hope for simplification of the procedure for entering their historical homeland and for reduction of the period for obtaining citizenship from the current six months to one or two months. This was stated by Tigran Gaboyan, a Syrian writer of Armenian descent, at today's press conference, held in Yerevan.

In Armenia, investigators filed charges in the case on balloons, exploded on May 4 at Republic Square in Yerevan, against Serob Bozoyan, a citizen of the country. The entrepreneur is accused of filling the balloons with explosive gas methane, and he is under recognizance not to leave. This was reported by the Police of Armenia.

The case of four persons, accused of the organization of the terror act at the Moscow "Domodedovo" Airport was brought to the court. This was reported today by the press service of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation.

Nutsi Aliev, a 32-year-old resident of Kaspiisk, who was considered disappeared since July 24, was found at the IVS (temporary detention facility) of Kaspiisk; however, no one is allowed to visit him. This was reported today by Maryana, the wife of Nutsi Aliev.

The noise-protection screens around the Olympic construction in Sochi, which Vladimir Vasilenko, Deputy Chief Engineer of the Closed Joint-Stock Company (CJSC) "PRiSS" promised to install till July 26, have not been established yet. According to resident of the city, till present, no noise-protection screens are installed, despite the fact that the construction works are going on.

Shoger Matevosyan, the editor-in-chief of the Armenian newspaper "Fourth Power" has stated that she is not afraid of the lawsuit, filed by blogger Tigran Kocharyan to court against her newspaper. Date of the court at the suit is still unknown.

On July 25, members of the human rights movement "Veche of Mineralnye Vody" informed the regional media about the start of the indefinite hunger strike, demanding the dismissal of the Mayor. According to the protesters, the hunger strike was reasoned by the consequences of the flooding in the city of Mineralnye Vody, which damaged more than 100 house ownerships of local residents.

On July, 25, Central district court of Sochi validated the judgment of the magistrate's court of calling Irina Brovkina to administrative account for holding a meeting. In this way, the activist’s appeal against the verdict of the magistrate's court was dismissed.

On July, 25, after more than a three-week break trial on the case of Editor-in-Chief of “Khural” newspaper Avaz Zeinalov under the chairmanship of judge Ramella Allahverdieva recommenced in the court for grave crimes of Baku.

In the evening of July, 24, resident of Kaspiysk Nutsi Aliev aged 32 disappeared in Dagestan, his wife Mariana Alieva reported.

Leader of oppositional coalition “The Georgian Dream” billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili paid a fine of 74,3 million lari (about 45,6 million dollars) and sum of execution to 5,2 million lari (about 3,2 million dollars) imposed by the court in full, Besik Liluashvili, representative of PR service of National Sentence-implementation agency of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, reported.