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Murtabek Murtabekov, head of limited company “Beer-Market”, representative of the company “Efes Beer”, kidnapped on June, 25, in Dagestan was released by the abductors under the condition of stopping his business”, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported.

Cases of burning down the houses belonging to relatives of those who join armed underground have recommenced in Chechnya. Residents of Shali district of Chechnya state that among these people there are fellow villagers of Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. Power ministries do not confirm this information.

On July 5 in the city of Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Territory a picket was held in protection of the rights and freedoms of individuals dedicated to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's meeting with the members of his Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.

Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the leader of Ingushetia, ordered to cancel the ban on giving out bodies of killed members of illegal armed formations to their relatives, to prevent people joining underground.

The 4th International Film Festival on Human Rights "Stalker", which was held in Makhachkala on June 23-27 and which had a charitable status, gathered full cinemas. Having watched the films, the audience discussed the issues raised in the films.

At present only the administration of Tsumadin District has responded to the call of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Dagestan to open a chain of stores "10 roubles" for people affected by emergencies. In the village of Agvali the local authorities gave the appropriate premises for that purpose.

An old woman, suffered in collision of car Toyota Corolla to the bus stop in the centre of the city of Cherkessk, died at the hospital, reported the representative of the hospital.

On July 1-3 a delegation of 26 children from the Circassian Diaspora in Turkey, who arrived in Adygea on June 21, visited the city of Maikop.

The Rostov Region developed the action procedure for the law enforcement bodies in the case of information about blinding the pilots of aircrafts with laser beams during approach to landing.

Location of Shamil Djavatov, a 20-year-old resident of the capital of Dagestan, is unknown to his family. This was asserted by Madina Djavatova, a mother of the disappeared young man.

A 39-year-old Kumsiyat Nutsalova was shot 11 times from behind the corner at a time in the night, when she was going to close her night shop in the village of Toturbiykala of Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by local residents.

Russian President received a letter about the negative social consequences of a lack of places in kindergartens in Volgograd, written by the initiative group of social movement "Volgograd mothers". 23,161 residents of Volgograd and the Volgograd Region signed this letters.

In connection with erection of Namakhvan cascade of hydropower stations in Racha-Lechkhumi, “The Green Movement of Georgia – Friends of the Earth” issued a special statement calling to stop construction of these energetics objects.

On Monday, July, 4, North-Caucasian educational forum “Mashuk-2011” took its official start. Representatives of young people from all the regions of Northern Caucasus, guests from Abkhazia, South Osetia and Ukraine came to take part in it.

State corporation “Health Resorts of Northern Caucasus” officially refuted the reports that UNESCO banned building of North-Caucasian tourist cluster.

In Sochi on the visiting session of the Council Russia-NATO the Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen spoke for the creation of two missile defence systems, while Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, defended the principle of a sectoral approach to cooperation.

Today the officers of the Interior Division for Grozny District of Chechnya detained a teenager who, according to the law enforcement agents, nearly blinded the pilot of the aircraft. An attempt of blinding took place on July 3 in the evening, when the plane was landing at the airport of Grozny.

Today in Yerevan at the dolphinarium "Nemo" the Armenian ecologists held the picket for protection of dolphins. Ecologists pointed out the inadmissibility of putting wild animals into captivity, which, according to the scientists, leads to severe psychological consequences for the animals.

In the Moscow City Court Judge Andrei Rasnovsky announced the decision on the criminal case on the football fan Yegor Sviridov's murder. The petition from the defence on consideration of the case involving the jury was satisfied. The defendants remained under arrest, reports the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent from the scene.

Today in Azerbaijan residents of four villages of Sabirabad District held the second for the last week mass action, demanding to pay full compensation for the damage which they suffered during the floods of May and June 2010 in the Kura and Araz Rivers.