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Today, in Baku, a travel session of the Nizami District Court was held at the high security penal institutions No. 1 of the Penitentiary Service of Azerbaijan and considered an application of Ruslan Bashirli, the head of the youth organization "Yeni Fikir" (New Thinking), about conditional early relief (CER).

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has accepted a complaint submitted by Nasurdin Rasulov, a human rights activist from Khasavyurt and the lawyer of the public organization "Fighter for Justice". According to his story, employees of the OVD (Interior Division) of Khasavyurt had illegally initiated a criminal case against him.

Today, the Supreme Court of Dagestan has decided to review the case of the employees of the Shamil ROVD (District Interior Division) accused of beatings a 14-year-old boy in June 2009. The case will be returned to the first instance court, said Bakanai Magomedova, the victims' advocate.

The Russian Football Premier League (RFPL) has officially requested a video record of the incident, which occurred with the crew of referees during the break of the August 22 match "Anji"-"Dynamo", when representatives of the club from the capital of Dagestan spoke with referees in an aggressive manner.

The Pardon Commission under the President of Georgia made recommendations for early release of about 100 prisoners.

The Labour Party of Georgia calls on Spanish authorities not to extradite Bidzina Giorgobiani, the former head of the Forestry Department, to Georgia.

As a result of flooding in the Kakheti Region of Georgia, hundreds of houses were flooded; roads and bridges were washed away; in some areas a threat of collapse forced to evacuate the population.

The Azerbaijani authorities have confirmed their refusal to grant an entrance visa to Bundestag Deputy Kristof Strasser, who wanted to visit Baku as the PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) Rapporteur on Political Prisoners in Azerbaijan, said Elman Abdullaev, the first secretary of the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Azerbaijan.

In the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), the first Asian special expedition has successfully climbed Mount Elbrus in honour of the Independence Day of Indonesia, reports Alisa Tarim, the head of the press service of the administration of the Elbrus District of the KBR.

As a result of the competitions held on August 14-18 at the Pan-Armenian Games-2011 the united team of Yerevan is a confidential leader with its 32 won medals, including 12 gold ones.

Sergey Shamba, a presidential candidate in Abkhazia, got today into a road accident. The incident happened in the village of Bzypta, Gagra District, when the candidate's cortege was on its way to a meeting with voters.

Today, workers demolished No. 25 in Vesyolaya Street in the Adler District of Sochi, which happened to be on the Olympic route and, in the opinion of the owners – the Tkachenko family – was illegally alienated from them without due compensation.

The Chechen law enforcement bodies assert that the information that Albert Osupov, 26, a resident of the village of Elistanzhi, Vedeno District of Chechnya, who was killed at night on August 18 in Grozny together with three other alleged members of the armed underground, had been earlier kidnapped by unidentified persons has nothing to do with reality.

A number of popular Moscow theatres have expressed their readiness to cooperate with the Georgian stage director Robert Sturua, said Alexander Pudin, advisor of Deputy Moscow Mayor Liudmila Shvetsova.

Electricity supply to the Moscow business centre, which houses the consular division of the section of Georgia's interests at the Embassy of Switzerland in the Russian Federation will be resumed on Monday, August 22, for the period of two months under the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Russia.

The Georgian party has reached agreement with the American company "Dozortsev and Sons" about the return of the brands of Georgian wine "Khvanchkara" and "Kindzmarauli".

The fourteen-years-old resident of Khasavyurt who formerly reported that she had undergone gang rape altered her evidence and rejected the psychologists’ aid. The “Caucasian Knot” correspondent received this information from representatives of one of the local human rights organizations who referred to the girl’s mother and wished to remain anonymous.

The refugees inhabiting Block No. 1 of the kindergarten, located in the city of Zugdidi in Gamsakhurdia Street, are leaving the building. Twelve families are resettled into the new residential area in the city of Poti.

Leader of one of the human rights centers working in Chechnya declared that Albert Osupov killed on August, 18, in Lenin district of Grozny together with three other supposed participants of armed underground by members of the top brass had formerly been kidnapped by unidentified personnel of power ministries.

Tehran answered the note of protest of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan concerning a statement of Head of General Staff of Armed forces of Iran, brigadier general Seiid Hasan Firuzabadi who predicted a “bad fortune” to Azerbaijan in connection with its contacts with Israel. The exact contents of the answer has not yet been made public however officials of the Iranian party in their comments condemn strongly-worded statements of Azerbaijan.