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During the week of July 11-17, the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus took away at least 15 human lives; at least 24 more persons were wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on own materials of the edition and information from other open sources.

Zurab Kurtsikidze, one of the Georgian photographers, accused of espionage, agreed to a procedural deal. This was reported today by Shalva Shavgulidze, one of Kurtsikidze's lawyers.

Lawyers and human rights activists will not accept the sentence imposed by the Tbilisi Court of Appeal on Tsotne Gamsakhurdia and after taking an appeal on the case from the Supreme Court of Georgia they will lodge a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). This was reported today by Katie Bekauri, Tsotne Gamsakhurdia's lawyer.

The initiative group "Hospital – for children!" urged residents of Kalmykia to start collecting signatures under the collective letter to US President Barack Obama to take jurisdiction over the only Republican Children's Hospital in the region.

Chairman of Committee of Inquiry (CI) of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin ordered to verify all possible versions of the murder of human rights activist Natalia Estemirova, including the ones offered by “Memorial” Human Rights Center, official representative of CI Vladimir Markin reported today.

At present, only 8 people of 271 families of the inhabitants of Gonio village of Khelvachauri District of Autonomous Republic of Adzharia of Georgia, whose lands, given to them in private ownership by the authorities' decision several years ago, have been seized, are at litigation with the authorities.

Participants of the conference "Motherland and Faith" in Stepanakert city (Nagorno-Karabakh) have accused a number of non-traditional Christian religious movements in violation of human rights and implementation of "undermining the political system with financing from abroad". In turn, believers offered to compose a list of features defining the concept of the "sect".

The Russian Federation is planning to allot 6,81 billion rubles on realization of an Investment program of assistance to South Osetia in 2011. This was reported by Minister of Regional Development Victor Basargin at a session of Intergovernmental Committee of the Russian Federation and South Osetia on July, 19.

The suspects of a rape of an underage girl in the settlement of Nartan, Kabardino-Balkaria, state that they had sexual relationship with her by her approbation, Chegem District Department of Interior Affairs reported. The girl’s mother says that the reason for this torture was her being a newcomer and does not deny that her daughter is a “screwed-up kid”.

Members of the Public Council of North Caucasus Federal District (NCFD) expressed their indignation about beating of Ibragim Yaganov, a member of the Council and a leader of the public movement "Khase", in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, and appealed to the leader of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) to take the investigation into the incident under his personal control.

At a meeting with the leaders of the Special Investigatory Service of Armenia Axel Fischer, a co-rapporteur of the PACE Monitoring Committee, stressed the importance of creating an atmosphere of confidence around the investigation of events of March 1, 2008.

Sergey Klimuk, a former FSB agent, serving a sentence for organizing an explosion at Cherkizovo marketplace in 2008, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, requests to declare unconstitutional the provision of law prohibiting an appeal against a guilty verdict of the jury court.

In Dagestan power agents detained brothers Ibragim and Salman Seferbekov on suspicion of murdering on July 9 the principal of the school in Sovietskoe village. In the houses of the suspected explosives and ammunition were found, which, according to the brothers' relatives, had been "planted".

The Soviet District Court of the Stavropol Territory passed a sentence upon three brothers named Gafurov, who were figuring in the case on engagement in a conflict with Cossacks in the city of Zelenokumsk in November 2010. Two brothers were sentenced to imprisonment terms, and the third one was acquitted.

During the first six months of this year in Chechnya 30 members of the armed underground were killed, 79 militants and their accomplices were detained, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

The independent TV Company "GALA", which broadcasts from the city of Gyumri, the second largest city in Armenia, will not fulfil the decision of the Court of Cassation to dismantle the equipment from the TV tower, until the company gets a possibility to operate from another TV tower, said Vaan Khachatryan, the owner of the TV Company.

On July, 19, hearings on the case of six activists of the opposition accused of violation of public order during an unauthorized meeting of Civil Movement for Democracy “Public Chamber” (CMDPC) on April, 2, in the center of Azerbaijani capital started in Sabaiil court of Baku.

On July, 20, former street traders held a new action of protest in the capital of Armenia, near the Mayor’s office. They state that after prohibition of street trading it has become difficult to support their families because of outrageous prices on the city market tolls. The traders are going to hold a series of hunger strikes near governmental buildings of Yerevan.

During the last several days a growth of the number of recourses of the citizens to medical institutions was registered in Chechnya. Physicians explain it by the heat that established in the republic. Republican Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reports that a heat of 40 degrees is expected in the nearest three days in the territory of Chechnya which may result is extraordinary accidents.

Today, the Sumgait Court of Appeal, chaired by Judge Lyatifa Mamedova, has continued considering the complaint of Jabbar Savalan, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA).