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Armenia will obey to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in respect of Vahan Bayatyan, a member of the religious organization "Jehovah's Witnesses", and pay to him the adjudicated amount of 20,000 euros in dram equivalent. This decision was approved on August 4 at the Armenian government's meeting.

Telo Tulku Rinpoche, Sajin Lama (Supreme Lama), President of the Centralized religious organization "Association of Buddhists of Kalmykia" sent an open letter to Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, requesting to permit a pastoral visit to Russia of the Buddhists' spiritual leader.

On August 5, after a break of 7 months, the flights on the route Tbilisi-Yerevan, terminated in January because of the loss, were resumed.

A trial on the case of Sviridov’s murder began in the Moscow city court today. The case is being tried by a jury which includes twelve main and eight reserve jurymen.

In Ingushetia, the republic's leader Yunus-Bek Evkurov ordered to establish a working group on moral issues, which would include representatives of the law enforcement agencies, tax inspection, Federal Service "Rospotrebnadzor", public organizations and the clergy.

In North Ossetia, episodes of the new Russian action film about the military conflict between Russia and Georgia, which took place in 2008 in South Ossetia, were shot. Residents of the city of Tskhinvali took part in the shootings.

In Karachay-Cherkessia, the Ust-Dzheguta Interdistrict Investigatory Division of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of Russia on the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KCR) initiated a criminal case on charges of excess of power by the officers of the local OVD (Interior Division).

Today, in the city of Rostov-on-Don at the hearing on the case of "Urvan Jamaat" in the North Caucasus District Military Court the defendants' lawyers demanded to bring to the court two defence's witnesses who did not come. To search for witnesses, the hearings were postponed till August 10.

Dean of the Department of History of the Southern Federal University (SFU) is suspected of taking bribes from the applicants in the amount of 200,000 roubles, which was allegedly transferred to the account, specified by the suspected person, following the results of the applicants' two entrance exams.

Today President of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov had a meeting with close relatives of members of paramilitary groups (PMG) who asked Head of the republic to become guarantor of observance of the law if those who have “gone to the forest” surrender to law enforcement bodies and appeal to the Committee for adaptation of gunmen.

On Thursday, August, 4, residents of the town of Zverevo, Rostov region, started an action within the framework of which they intend to hold everyday pickets demanding revision of the tariffs on housing and communal services (HCS).

The workers who took part in the construction of the sports complex named after late Head of Chechnya Ahmat Kadyrov, the biggest one in Northern Caucasus, report that they have not received the promised salary although ceremonial opening of the complex took place in Grozny yet in May.

There are no legal or factual preconditions for the merger of South and North Ossetia and for South Ossetia's entry into Russian state's structure. This was announced today by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, in his interview to the Georgian and Russian journalists in Sochi.

The military unit No. 55056, deployed in Sochi, purchases for account of the budget "for state needs" a boat of the "luxury" category for the amount of 21,936,628 roubles – with two cabins, grill, DVD, and illuminated beds. Information on the auction is published on the official website for posting information on public procurement.

On August 5, in the vicinity of the village of Gimry of Untsukul District next to the building of the LLC "Rushydro", the residents of the nine mountainous districts of Dagestan plan to hold a rally demanding to open the "Gimry-Chirkata" Tunnel for vehicular traffic.

In the Georgian capital, five people involved in the riots in Tbilisi on May 26, were sentenced, the Chief Prosecutor's Office of Georgia reports.

Today, during the third round of negotiation between the delegations from the ruling coalition and oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC), the parties came to an agreement to have more frequent meetings. Instead of meeting once a week they will meet twice.

The experts from the Scientific and Research Institute of Archaeology of the Dagestani Scientific Centre (DSC) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), who organized an expedition to the Derbent District of Dagestan, report about numerous unique findings in the tombs of Palasasyrt.

The intervention of the public and the media played a huge role in the release of the Georgian journalists, who were arrested on charges of espionage for Russia, believe the commentators in Georgia.

In Azerbaijan, human rights organizations conduct a campaign to bring attention of the world public to human rights violations in the country. This was reported by Leila Yunus, the director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy.