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On August 3 the Constitutional Court of Georgia has registered the lawsuit on declaring unconstitutional Article 314 of the Criminal Code of Georgia ("espionage"). According to the authors of the lawsuit, the unclear expressions in the above article gave the Georgian authorities a right to arrest the photographers accused of espionage for Russia.

The Moscow City Court has formed the jury for the case on the murder of Yegor Sviridov, a fan of the football club "Spartak", who was killed last December in Moscow. According to the press service of the court, the jury consists of 12 main jurors and eight substitute jurors.

On August 2 the internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Abkhazia and South Ossetia obtained a meeting at the Tbilisi Office of the United Nations. Now they hope that the UN will listen to their demands to stop their eviction from the temporary accommodation centres (TACs) in Tbilisi. According to experts, the demand to draw the attention of the Georgian UN office to the refugees' problem is well-timed.

Today in the Nagorno-Karabakh, the circuit court of general jurisdiction of Syunik Region of Armenia has sentenced Manvel Azroyan to life imprisonment, finding him guilty of the murder of his four colleagues.

At present, four victims of the mass brawl, which occurred between airborne soldiers and natives of the Caucasus on August 2, remain at the medical institutions of Astrakhan. This was reported by Oleg Svirin, Acting Chief of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in the Astrakhan Region, at the special briefing on the incident.

People’s Defender Georgi Tugushi in Georgia submitted his recommendations to Kobe Subeliani, Minister of Affairs of persons replaced from occupied territories, refugees and settlement, demanding to provide the refugees with proper dwelling conditions and inspect the objects which must be transferred to their possession.

Reconstruction works in the central street of Chechen capital, Ahmat Kadyrov avenue, are going much behind of schedule. The authorities intend to speed up the process by means of organizing large-scale subbotniks (days of unpaid work on the weekend).

On July, 28, the UN Committee on sanctions concerning “Al-Qaeda” and physical and juridical persons connected with it adopted a decision of including “The Caucasus Emirate” into the sanction list. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its approval of this decision of UN Security Council.

Today the body of Georgian citizen Tamta Liparteliani who became one of the victims of the terrorist in Norway will be taken to Georgia. According to the Ambassador of Georgia in Denmark and Norway David Kereselidze, all necessary documentation has been collected for that.

Russian authorities should immediately stop the criminal prosecution against the well-known Dagestani lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova and bring to justice the police officers for physical violence against the lawyer. This was declared by the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW), commenting on the information about filing charges against Magomedova. The Amnesty International (AI) also claimed a protest on this occasion.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) launched a consideration of a complaint lodged by relatives of Aslan Davletukaev, a resident of Chechnya, who had been kidnapped and killed in January 2004 near the city of Gudermes.

Tomorrow, on August 3, the Moscow City Court will select a jury for consideration of the case on the murder of Yegor Sviridov, a fan of the "Spartak" Football Club, in last December. The jury selection will take place behind closed doors, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by the press service of the Moscow City Court.

The executive power of Baku shall give to the public a general work plan of the Azerbaijani capital's development, on the basis of which the construction works are currently conducted in the city. This decision was adopted on August 1 by the Baku Administrative and Economic Court.

Sergey Evloev, a 19-year-old resident of Makhachkala, who had been earlier twice kidnapped, was detained by the police officers form the OVD (Interior Division) of the Leninsky District of the Dagestani capital on suspicion of illegal keeping of weapons. This was told by lawyer Ziyavdin Uvaisov to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Salman Tepshaev and Arthur Sakaev, natives of the Naur District of Chechnya, who had been detained in Astrakhan on July 29 by the power agents, were brought to the republic.

The 8th graduation of the course participants of the business centre was held in the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia. Organizers note that now the residents of the District come to learn doing business consciously.

The Kanavino District Court of Nizhny Novgorod granted the lawsuit of the charity fund of the soldiers' mothers "Mother's Right" against the district administration of the Pension Fund (PF) of the Russian Federation, which rejected monthly cash pensions to four widows of servicemen killed in Chechnya.

On August, 1, an international youth project “Kunachestvo” (“Friendship”) started in Kabardino-Balkaria. It means that a teenager of one ethnic group goes to live in a family representing another one and becomes its guest.

The authorities of Adygeia together with environmental groups will seek ways of solving ecologic problems connected with development of “Lagonaki” health resort. For this purpose a work group of ecologic escort of the project “Development of a special economic tourist an recreation zone “Lagonaki” in the territory of Maikop district of the Republic of Adygeia” was formed.

A resident of the stanitsa of Orjonikidzevskaya, Sunzha district of Ingushetia, reports kidnapping of his son Ibrahim Khashiev by armed people. The Ministry of Interior Affairs of Ingushetia does not confirm the fact of kidnapping.