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During a campaign called “One-hundred-thousandth appeal to President of Azerbaijan” Center of Protection of Freedom of conscience and religion (DEVAMM) collected about 124 thousand signatures under a petition demanding to cancel the prohibition of wearing hijab in the schools of Azerbaijan.

In Kabardino-Balkaria where there is no Committee for adaptation of gunmen to peaceful life yet mothers of the participants of the underground decided to act on their own and prepared a video message to their sons asking them to surrender arms and come back home.

Six supposed gunmen killed in a special operation in Makhachkala on August, 11, women among them, have been identified, National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC) reported.

20 artists from Russia, Belarus and Armenia visited Nagorno-Karabakh within the framework of the First International Symposium “Armenian Palette”.

Municipal Council of Tbilisi has taken a decision of calculation of new tariffs on garbage disposal. Christian Democratic movement of Georgia traversed the decision of the Council in courts.

Today, in the centre of Baku a one-storey building, which houses the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), headed by Leila Yunus, well-known human rights activist, was demolished.

Veterans of the Great Patriotic War (WW II), living in the Chechen Republic, will receive financial assistance from the national budget.

The inventory conducted by the Mayoralty revealed: which kiosks work legally, and which – illegally. Demolition of idle and illegally operating kiosks will be implemented in the nearest future. This was announced at the today's government meeting by Karen Karapetyan, Mayor of Yerevan.

In the city of Novocherkassk of Rostov Region, a 58-year-old chairperson of the housing cooperative society will face the court. The head of the cooperative society is suspected that due to her fault a woman-pensioner was killed by a fallen icicle.

Today, the Tver Moscow Court announced decision to keep figurants on the case of riots at Manezhnaya Square in last December under custody till January 26, 2012. Dmitry Agranovsky, the lawyer of the defendant Igor Berezyuk, reported about his intention to challenge the court's decision.

Refugees from South Ossetia, living in the Tbilisi Hotel "Abkhazia", continue to hold protests against their eviction, scheduled for August 15 by the Ministry for Internally Displacement Persons, Resettlement and Refugees in Georgia.

Vidadi Iskenderov, the head of the NGO "Promotion for the Defence of Democracy", faces a threat of 3-5.5 years of imprisonment. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Khalid Bagirov, the lawyer of the human rights activist.

On August, 9, Byelorussian frontiers detained five natives of Chechnya, citizens of the Russian Federation, two little children among them.

The World championship in one of the oldest kinds of martial arts, wrestling on the belts, will be held in Astrakhan from August, 11, till August, 14.

Replaced persons protested against their expected eviction from “Abkhazia” hotel in Tbilisi at an action in front of the Ministry of the Affairs of refugees.

The human rights activists who organized a memory action in Grozny timed to the second anniversary of the murder of Zarema Sadullaeva and her husband Alik Jabraiilov declared that they would appeal to the management of Investigative Department of Chechnya demanding investigation of the murders of members of the organization “Save the Generation” and human rights activist Natalia Estemirova.

This morning people with equipment for demolition of street kiosks and booths came to Papazyan Street in the Yerevan community of Arabkir. Their actions were accompanied by violent protests of the owners, who find the decision of the city authorities unlawful.

Alim Bitokhov, a defendant in the case on the so-called "Urvan Jamaat", challenged his lawyer Eduard Samoilov because of his disagreement with the latter's defence tactics. The panel of judges of the North Caucasian District Military Court dismissed the defendant's motion, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports from the courtroom.

In Ingushetia, investigators suspect Magomed Khashagulgov, Managing Director of the OJSC "Airport Magas" of abuse of power, and Magomed Tsurov, his predecessor in the post, – of illegal entrepreneurship. This is stated in the message of the Prosecutor's General Office of Russia.

The party "Georgia's Way" demands to pay a ransom for Georgian sailors captured by Somalia pirates from the President's Fund. This was announced by Mamuka Baliashvili, the head of the youth wing of the party.