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The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia has circulated a video record of confessional evidences given by Irakli Gedenidze, one of the photographers, detained on suspicion of spying.

In the evening on July 8 a mass brawl of young people with use of traumatic pistols and cold weapons took place in the Mozdok District of North Ossetia; as a result, two persons were injured and hospitalized, said the regional press service of the MIA.

Vladimir Ujba, the head of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA) of Russia, has ordered to send a team of experts to the Krasnodar Territory to make a final decision regarding the girl, who was denied disability status by doctors from the Medical-Sanitary Examination (MSE).

The members of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation have urged law enforcement bodies to strain all their efforts to investigate the murder of a headmaster in Dagestan; and the government officials – to do everything to normalize the situation in the village of Sovietskoe, where at night on July 9 Sadikullah Akhmedov, 59, the principal of the local secondary school, was shot dead.

The Festival programme contains names of performers from 11 countries. For the first time, organ music ensembles will be presented.

In Volgograd, on July 8 in Lenin Square residents held a "picket of despair", which was sanctioned by the authorities. Its participants were eight activists of the initiative group of the social movement "Volgograd Mothers" and the townspeople, who lost their homes by court rulings.

The Armenian coalition parties have formed a group fore holding a dialogue with the opposition and are ready to meet them within the next ten days, said Armen Arzumanyan, the press secretary of the President of Armenia.

The probability that the accident with the Azerbaijani cargo plane Il-76 in Afghanistan had to do with the movement of "Taliban" is high, said Ilham Amirov, the head of the commission to investigate the reasons of the accident.

Today, the Tbilisi City Court has ruled to appoint pre-trial detention to the photographers detained on espionage charges.

The international human rights organization "Reporters Without Borders" (RWB) urges the authorities of Georgia to clarify the circumstances of detention of the photographers, who were arrested on suspicion of espionage. This was reported by Johan Bihr, the head of the European and Central-Asian Branch of the RWB.

Today six Georgian oppositional parties issued a statement on creation of the coalition "For Free Choice", aimed at achieving the power change through elections.

On July 7 a large-scale rally of youth organizations, aimed against extremism and radical movements in religion, was held in the centre of the Chechen capital. About three thousand people marched along Putin Avenue, the central street of the city, chanting slogans "No terrorism!" and "No Wahhabism!"

The Interstate Humanitarian Cooperation Fund of the CIS Member States "CIS Fund", headed by Armen Smbatyan, the Armenian Ambassador to Russia, has provided for the program "Cinema of CIS: 20 years of independence," which would be held during the festival "Golden Apricot", 30 thousand dollars. This was reported at the press conference on July 8 by Arutyun Khachatryan, the festival's director.

South Ossetia has decided to withdraw from the negotiations on refugees, held in within the Geneva talks. This was reported by Boris Chochiev, the presidential envoy in South Ossetia on post-conflict settlement issues.

Today Sidrat Akhmedova, a resident of the village Shamkhal of Kirov District of Makhachkala told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about the disappearance of her brother Khalid Akhmedov, a 43-year-old resident of the village of Kara-Tyube of the Babayurt District of Dagestan.

The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Abkhazia has registered the initiative group to nominate acting Prime Minister Sergey Shamba as a presidential candidate. The initiative group consists of 23 members, representatives from all areas of the country.

On July 6 at the initiative of Rizvan Kurbanov, First Deputy Prime Minister of Dagestan, a meeting with bloggers was held in Makhachkala. To the complete surprise of Livejournal's users, Magomedsalam Magomedov, the President of the republic, and Abdurashid Magomedov, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), also came to take part in the meeting.

More than 120 racers from all over Russia and near abroad arrived at the base camp of the mountain multi-race "Caucasus Adventure Race 2011", which is located on the southern outskirts of the village Khamyshki of the Maikop District of Adygea. The athletes will have to overcome the 240 kilometres in the mountains within two days.

Oppositional parties of Georgia called for the authorities of the country to make transparent the investigation on the case of press photographers detained for accusation of espionage.

An action in support of the Gafurovs passed off near Soviet district court of Stavropol region. Three Gafurov brothers are defendants of the case of the conflict in Zelenokumsk which took place in November, 2010.