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The court's refusal to apply the conditional early relief (CER) to blogger Adnan Gadjizade, imprisoned in Azerbaijan, has no lawful grounds, as Isakhan Ashurov, Adnan's advocate, told today the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Lieutenant Colonel Kamil Dzhabrailov, deputy head of the Kirov ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala, died from received wounds in hospital.

In Tbilisi, the refugees from Abkhazia who were evicted from the publishing house "Samshoblo" held a protest action at the building of the Ministry for Refugees' Matters and Accommodation, demanding housing. Should the authorities fail to solve their housing problems, they plan to refuse from their Georgian citizenship.

As reported by Khamid Tambiev, Chairman of the Magas Court, they have no statement of claim demanding to close the Internet edition "Ingushetia.Ru" (ingushetiyaru.org).

Relatives and advocate of Alaudin Nalgiev, who was detained on July 14, continue insisting that the young man is illegally kept in custody and was exposed to torture. Employees of the Ingush branch of the Human Rights Society "Memorial" sent an inquiry to prosecutor's office.

The Moscow City Court has sentenced Rasul Akhmaev, accused of complicity in the murder of Nazim Kaziakhmedov, an inspector of the General Prosecutor's Office, to 12 years of high security colony. He was found guilty of buying the firearm that was used for the murder and of participating in organization of the murder.

Mikhail Kulumbegov, a resident of Gvirgvina village, Znaur District of South Ossetia, who was kidnapped today by unidentified persons and released two hours later, asserts that "his kidnappers wanted to exchange him for a citizen of Georgia, allegedly kept by the South-Ossetian party."

The Supreme Court of the Russia Federation has satisfied the cassation complaint lodged by the Board of Elders of the Balkar People (BEBP) with a request to cancel the decision of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria prescribing to ban the Board. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the BEBP that the Russian Supreme Court decided to stop the case.

Different sources give different versions of the night incident in Astrakhan, where a militiaman was killed, and a girl-his colleague was wounded.

The participants of the ethnographic expedition, which started from Moscow to the Caucasus on July 15 and organized by the well-known Russian designer and blogger Artemiy Lebedev, have already visited the south of Russia and are now getting acquainted with Southern Caucasus. After the North-Caucasian republics, the crews have visited Azerbaijan and Georgia.

At night on July 21 Anzor Shadov, a resident of the city of Nartkala, Kabardino-Balkaria, was kidnapped. As reported by a reader of the "Caucasian Knot" with reference to the witnesses of the incident, armed persons in masks forced him into a Gazel van and took away into some unknown location.

Today, in the Malgobek District of Ingushetia, unidentified persons wounded an employee of the local OVD (Interior Division), who stood in the street, and a passer-by.

The Public Prosecutor of Ingushetia has addressed the Magas City Court asking to oblige the provider to stop the website "Ingushetia.Org", Magomed Khazbiev, the owner of the resource, reports.

The "Karvasla" exhibition centre in Tbilisi hosts an exhibition of photo works by the Russian journalist and photographer of Victoria Ivleva "Apotheosis of War". The exposition includes 42 photos made in 1992-2005 and dedicated to victims of armed conflicts in different corners of the planet.

The investigatory bodies of the Tuapse District of the Krasnodar Territory believe that the fight in the children's health-improving camp "Don" between local and Chechen teenagers had domestic grounds. Nine persons addressed for medical aid.

Today, the Garadag District Court of Azerbaijan, presided by Rufan Mursalov, considered a petition lodged by blogger Adnan Gadjizade about early release after serving a half of his term.

Ingushetia and Kalmykia are among five outsiders by the rating of life quality, compiled by the Institute of Regional Information for the first quarter of 2010. Unconditional leaders throughout the last five years are Moscow and St Petersburg, while the gap between the leaders and outsiders continues growing.

At night on July 21, 2010, in the OVD (Interior Division) building of Khebda village, Shamil District of Dagestan, three militiamen were torturing and beating a boy of 14, forcing him to confess of a theft, human rights activists assert.

Rafael Kallagov, ex-employee of the UBOP (Department for Fighting Organized Crime) of the MIA of North Ossetia, was sentenced by the Supreme Court of the republic to 18 years of imprisonment in a high security colony. He was accused of committing a number of resonant murders as a member of a criminal grouping, including the murder of Vitaly Karaev, former mayor of Vladikavkaz.

The Balkar public organization named "Alan" would not accept radical forms of protest - hunger strikes, pickets and rallies. This was stated by one of its leaders - Magomed Apshaev, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in his comment on the hunger strike of a group of Balkars, who demand enforcement in the republic of the federal law on local self-government.