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In Stavropol, in the Russian Forest, near the monument to tortured and executed Soviet citizens, a rally was held in memory of Holocaust victims. The event took place on August 19 at the initiative of the Jewish community of the Stavropol Territory.

In fear of lynch law execution by local residents, Vladimir Ambartsumov, a resident of Pyatigorsk, who is suspected of raping and murdering a 9-year-old Anna Prokopenko, and his family are guarded by law enforcers.

On August 22, the Predgorny District Court of the Stavropol Territory will hold a preliminary hearing on the criminal case opened against former district militiamen, accused of using violence to Vyacheslav Merekha, a local resident.

Bidzina Ivanishvili, the leader of the oppositional coalition "Georgian Dream", has invited the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili to televised debates and expressed his readiness to hold debates with members of the ruling party, should the President be unable to appear. Also, according to Ivanishvili, he is ready to hold debates with other parties, if they recognize their links with the "United National Movement".

Today, 11 villagers of Kudepsta – opponents to building the Kudepsta Thermal Power Plant (TPP), rallied opposite the Sochi Mayoralty. They told Sochi residents about the actions of the authorities aimed, according to their version, against citizens' constitutional rights.

The Krasnodar Territorial Court has satisfied the petition of the alleged gang members accused of killing 12 people in the house of a farmer in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, and of other violent crimes, on having their case tried by a jury, lawyer of the victims, Ekaterina Romanova, a victims' advocate, told reporters.

The starting session at the Moscow Regional Court on the merits of the criminal case against the alleged organizers of the terror act at "Domodedovo" Airport is scheduled for August 27.

The today's night heavy rain with that struck Georgia caused serious harm to some regions of Kakheti and resort suburbs of Tbilisi, said the emergency service of the Georgian capital.

According to the Expert-Forensic Centre of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan, the cartridge cases gathered at the place of attack on the mosque worshipers in Khasavyurt coincide with those found after the shooting at the former Imam of the village of Endirey, Khasavyurt District, the MIA reports.

The funerals of the policemen killed on 19 August in Malgobek by a suicide bomber are conducted under tight supervision of law enforcers; no incidents were observed, said the spokesman of the Ingush MIA. According to latest data, August 22 was announced the day of mourning in the republic.

Today in Khasavyurt, unidentified persons have committed an armed attack on a Shiite mosque community, resulting in six people injured, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Republic of Dagestan reports.

Today, Nalchik has hosted the stage of the "Caucasian Games" for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). The competitions were attended by 13 teams from each of the municipal districts of the republic and the city of Nalchik.

The participants of the rally in the village of Bezengi, where the basic demand was to oblige the authorities of Kabardino-Balkaria to fulfil Federal Law No. 131, according to which, in their opinion, they have the right to deal with the development of the tourist cluster, adopted a resolution. They ask the President of the Russian Federation to enforce the constitutional order in the republic and refuse to cooperate with the "Resorts of Northern Caucasus", until the land of the village is transferred to the municipality.

A group of local MPs from all four factions of the Duma of the Stavropol Territory – "United Russia", "Fair Russia", Liberal-Democratic Party (LDPR) and Communist Party (CPRF) – offer to adopt at the autumn session a territorial bill on deputy's investigation.

A fact of mass death of pig-fishes has been revealed in the territory of the coastline in the Gulf of Taganrog. Plenty of fishes of all ages were found on the shore.

On October 1-14, 2012, the city of Shushi will host the first Festival of Contemporary Arts "Earth and Technologies", which will be attended by 20 art historians from Armenia and Diaspora and accompanied by an exhibition of works of artists of Nagorno-Karabakh.

A substantial increase in food prices before the end of the fasting month of Ramadan annoys residents of Chechnya and Dagestan. The authorities say that they are unable to influence the situation; and the local clergy try – with little success, however, – to change the situation by appealing to the norms of Islam.

At night on August 18, the Armenian armed forces shelled the positions of the Azerbaijani army, said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan. The Armenian party rejects the accusations and reports numerous attacks undertaken by Azerbaijanis.

The Baku City Prosecutor's Office has opened a criminal case "on the fact of an attempted murder" of the late ex-president of Azerbaijan Abulfaz Aliev (Abulfaz Elchibey), who died in August 2000.

Ramin Bairamov, the editor-in-chief of the website "Islamazeri.com" is at large in Azerbaijan. On August 17, the travel session of the Surakhan District Court of Baku, which was held at the institution of punishment No. 16 of the Penitentiary Service of Azerbaijan, considered the journalist's appeal for conditional early relief (CER) because of serving half of his term. The court granted the petition of the journalist.