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On August 4, in the city of Gyumri, debates were held by the Armenian public organization "Chirac Centre" and the initiative group "We're against foreign-language schools" with participation of members of other NGOs on the amendments to the Laws of Armenia "On Language" and "On Education".

Residents of the capital of Chechnya report about a young man detained and beaten by power agents. Now, he is still in hospital guarded by law enforcers. This was reported by a source in one of local human rights NGOs.

Residents of Anchikh village, Akhvakh District of Dagestan, who lost their houses in a fire on August 5, had to spend their night in the open air. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Isa Magomedov, a villager.

As announced today by Anas Pshikhachev, Chairman of the Spiritual Moslems' Administration (SMA) of Kabardino-Balkaria, a multifunctional Islamic centre will be built in Nalchik.

Today the court of the Traktorozavod District of Volgograd sentenced Yuri Babkin, a former teacher and deputy of the City Council, accused of paedophilia, to 15 years of deprivation of freedom in a high security colony.

Ruins of the church dated back to the 5th-6th centuries were found in Georgia in the territory of Dzabvu village, Ozurget District.

Anzor Kokoladze, the founder of the largest Georgian network of electric equipment shops "Elite Еlectronix", was detained on suspicion of appropriation of a huge sum of money through a fraud.

The project "Lost World" is implemented in the Ust-Donetsk District of the Rostov Region by the public organization "Don Archaeological Society". The idea is to study the history by placing kids into material environment of a certain epoch.

As reported today by the spokesman of the local Ministry of Internal Affairs, on August 5 in the evening, an unknown person opened fire on an ambulance and stole over 1.5 million roubles - the salaries of the hospital employees - out of it.

The judicial hearing of the Georgia versus Russia case on application of the International Convention on Eradication of All Forms of Racial Discrimination will take place on September 13-17.

As reported by the Investigatory Department of Russia's ICPO for the Stavropol Territory, inspectors have initiated a criminal case against Sergey Demidenko, former mayor of the city of Kislovodsk, who is suspected of service abuse.

The hot summer has told fatally on grain crops in the Volgograd Region: the drought has ruined half of the expected crops; the suffered districts are provided with financial help.

On August 4, in the Sergokalin District of Dagestan, unidentified persons shelled a car with two persons inside.

As reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), in a skirmish in the municipal district Plievo in Nazran, two servicemen of the OMON (Special Militia) were wounded.

In Armenia, drugs are mainly used by people aged 25-35, mostly resident of Yerevan. By official data, the number of drug addicts in the country has doubled. This was stated by Petros Semerdzhyan, director of the Narcology Centre of Armenia and Chief Narcologist.

As reported by Anna Lyzina, press secretary of the FSB Department for Karachai-Circassia, it was decided to take preventive measures against fires near dwelling settlements and crucial and potentially hazardous objects.

Experts are sure that the contradictory statements of the leader of Chechen militants Dokku Umarov, who has refuted his recent statement on his resignation and appointment of the militant Aslambek Vadalov to the post of Amir of the forbidden Imarat Kavkaz, were caused by a serious split among militants, experts are assured. According to political scientist Abdullah Istamulov, head of the Research Centre "SK-Strategy", under one of the versions, the leaders of the Kabardino-Balkarian subdivision of the Imarat forced Umarov to recall his resignation statement.

The coalition of NGOs for public supervision, set up under the "National Preventive Mechanism", which was founded by six public associations of Azerbaijan, is open for new NGOs, engaged in human rights activities. This was stated by Elchin Bekhbudov, coordinator of the coalition and head of the Azerbaijani Committee Against Torture.

At night on August 3, a suicide was committed in the Baku pre-trial detention facility (known as "SIZO"). As reported by the Sabunchin District Prosecutor's Office of the city of Baku, Alim Ismajlov, 41, hung himself in the cell. The reason of his suicide is unknown yet. According to Elchin Bekhbudov, head of the Azerbaijani Committee Against Torture, it already the third suicide in Azerbaijan among persons kept in custody from the start of this year.

As reported by a source in the Ingush MIA, in a shelling in central Nazran Ibragim Evloev, 35, former deputy head of the State Security Centre of the MIA of Ingushetia, who was earlier convicted for an imprudent murder of Magomed Evloev, owner of the oppositionist website "Ingushetia.Ru".