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Armenian National Congress broke off its participation in the dialogue with the authorities of Armenia and will return to the negotiating table only after alteration of preventive punishment for activist Tigran Arakelyan. This was reported by Levon Zurabyan, coordinator of ANC, leader of the delegation of oppositionists at the negotiation.

All the motions of the defense party entered on August, 25, at a preliminary session on the case of organization of disturbances in Manezhnaya square of Moscow last December were declined today. The first hearing of the case on the merits was appointed for September, 7.

On August 26 a protest action will be held at the building of the Dagestani Prosecutor's Office, where people will demand to release three residents of the Kizlyar District, detained under suspicion of helping militants.

Georgian experts are not unanimous regarding the unconstitutional nature of Article 314 of the Criminal Code (espionage).

The Sabail District Court of Baku has announced its sentence to six oppositionists accused of violating public order during the unsanctioned rally on April 2. The defendants were given from 1.5 to 3 years of imprisonment.

The foreign observers who have arrived in Abkhazia have promised that they will be able to control the course of the presidential election.

Sport officials, coaches and athletes believe that only the court should define the guilt of Rasul Mirzaev, the world champion in sambo, who was arrested in the case of the death of a student Ivan Agafonov.

On August 21 the Rashid Aushev Stadium in Nazran hosted a football match in the southern zone of the second division of Russian championship between "Angusht" (Nazran) and "Fayur" (Beslan). In the first-ever football match between Ingushetia and North Ossetia not on the neutral pitch "Fayur" beat "Angusht" 2:0.

Volgograd regional court dismissed the case on the lawsuit of Alexander Galuzo who demanded adoption of the decision of announcement of direct election of Head of Volgograd.

A criminal charge was brought in Azerbaijan against Shirin Jafari, constitutor of the newspaper “Giundem Khabar” (“News of the Day”). He is accused of tax evasion and abuse of authority. The investigation is being carried out by Directorate of struggle against corruption under Prosecutor General based on an appeal of Press Council.

The Court of Arbitration in Moscow registered the lawsuit of “Ostozhenka Business center” limited company of eviction of Consular Department of the Section of the interests of Georgia with the Embassy of Switzerland in Russia from the mansion in Ostozhenka street, No 26/1. This was reported by a representative of the court.

Today operative groups of the Ministry of Interior Affairs and Federal Security Service are carrying out searches in ten houses of Jehovah's Witnesses in Taganrog and the neighbourhood.

Building of the first in Dagestan women’s beach complex has been accomplished at the coast of the Caspian sea, in Makhachkala.

Polling stations for citizens of Abkhazia residing in the Russian Federation will be opened in Moscow and Cherkessk. Presentation of such a polling station was held in Moscow on August, 23.

The rivers of Sagarejo district of Georgia which outflowed the banks inflicted a damage of 600 thousand lari (over 366 US dollars), Head of Municipality Sagarejo Gia Chalatashvili declared.

On August, 23, the first makes of “Lada-Priora” cars were produced in Argun, the third biggest town of Chechnya, at the plant “Chechenavto”.

Salman Ugurchiev, a resident of the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, said about kidnapping of his son Akraman Ugurchiev, born in 1984. The father brought his application to the human rights organization "MASHR".

Victims of fire in the settlement of Tsibary sent letters to Victor Basargin, Minster of Regional Development of the Russian Federation, and Sergey Shoigu, Minister of Emergency Situations of Russia, asking to pay them the whole due sum of compensation.

Khadish Ibaeva, the owner of the flat in Grozny, where a special operation was conducted on August 18, told rights defenders that power agents took away the documents on the flat, where she had been registered since 2004, and evicted her from the flat.

Shamil Alisultanov, a resident of Kaspiisk, who had been missing since August 19, was found murdered in the Buinaksk District, said his wife Kamilla Mamaeva. According to her story, power agents had to do with her husband's death.