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On July 15 the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) will present the report outlining the human rights problems and specific recommendations to the authorities of Abkhazia and the international community to improve the situation in Gali District.

Armed policemen, who went this morning around households in the village Mutsalaul of Khasavyurt District, threw grenades to the house where brothers Ali and Umar named Zainalabidov lived. As a result, the building received considerable damage, the "Caucasian Knot" was told by Rasul Magomedkhanov, a resident of the village.

627 athletes from 61 Russian regions took part in the championship of Russia which passed off in Cheboksary from July, 1 till July, 3, the Ministry of Sports of Chuvash Republic reported. Participants from Northern Caucasus got over ten medals during the events.

The settlement of Jikhaskari, Zugdidi district of Western Georgia, bore strong damages as a result of a heavy rain and flood in the river of Tarchia, highways and bridges were also troubled.

As of July, 9, 767 persons were granted an amnesty in Armenia, Press service of Criminal executive department of the Ministry of Justice reported.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by Police Colonel Yuri Begidov, head of the Chegem ROVD (District Interior Division) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), that 15 persons are checked for involvement in raping a 14-year-old girl from the village of Nartan in Kabardino-Balkaria: suspects' DNA an other analyses are made.

On July 11, in the Tsumadin District of Dagestan, unidentified criminals attacked the Radio and Television Broadcasting Centre (RTBC); they destroyed and burned it down.

Reporters were informed by Dmitry Tasoev, Chairman of the earlier legally liquidated Social-Democratic Party of South Ossetia, that his party will participate in elections at all levels.

In Tbilisi, at the initiative of the Board of the Charter of Journalistic Ethics, journalists held protest actions associated with the "photographers' case" at the buildings of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the US Embassy. The members of the Board demanded from the country's authorities to remove the "secrecy status" from the case and urged the international community to monitor the inquiry.

On Friday, July 15, at 6:00 p.m., the new premises of the International Society "Memorial" in Moscow, located at the intersection of Karetny Ryad Street and Sadovoe Ring, a party will be held in memory of human rights defender Natalia Estemirova. The event will see the film "Who killed Natasha?"

The parents of the children who sank in Yeisk last year disagree both with the judgment agaist the teachers acknowledged guilty of their chilren’s loss and the actions of the court concerning the aggreived persons themselves.

On July 8 and 9 Geneva hosted another round of consultations between Russia and Georgia on the former's accession to the WTO. According to Nino Kalandadze, Deputy Foreign Minister of Georgia, customs experts took part in the meeting.

The organizers of the mountain multi-race "Caucasus Adventure Race 2011", which was held on July 8-10 in the territory of the Lagonaki Highland and the Fisht-Oshten Massive of the Republic of Adygea and the Krasnodar Territory, intend to start holding it every year. In the future, they plan to add the marine component to the race.

Dagestani advocates do not rule out that after the murder of the school principal Sidikullah Akhmedov, committed in the village of Sovietskoe, repressions may be launched against the parishioners of the local mosque, who had been already beaten once.

By September 1, the village of Novo-Sasitli will open a new Islamic school- medrese for 150 pupils. The construction is funded by Muslims' donations.

The fact that Adam Kartoev, born in 1986, a resident of the village of Ekazhevo, Nazran District of Ingushetia, departed on July 7 in his VAZ-2107 car to Nazran and never returned was reported to the on duty unit of the Nazran ROVD by his mother Ferdovs Kartoeva.

The championship in boxing among schoolchildren was opened on July 10 in the Chechen capital. The tournament will be held from July 10 to July 16.

As of 14:00, July, 11, twelve persons injured as a result of an explosion of a gas bottle in Vladikavkaz are still staying in clinics of St. Petersburg, Irbek Doev, Head of Press service of the Permanent Mission of North Osetia, reported.

Over 200 people living in PTSs for displaced persons which the authorities of Chechnya several years ago renamed into dormitories for people in need of improvement housing conditions may be compulsorily evicted one of these days.

The internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Abkhazia, who had been accommodated in two temporary accommodation centres (TACs), kindergarten No. 204 in micro-district No. 2 in the district of Varketili, and the religious boarding school in Lotkin district in Tbilisi, received their eviction notification.