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The tragic death of six servicemen became a result of omissions of one of the links of the system, which had recruited a person, representing potential danger to the society. This opinion was stated today at a press conference by psychologist Karine Nalchadzhyan, who noted that the incident proved the need of a more careful medical examination of recruits.

Bureaucrats of the city will donate their one-day salaries into the assistance fund to victims of forest fires in Russia.

Dokku Umarov, leader of the armed underground in Northern Caucasus, has declared his resignation as "Amir of Imarat Kavkaz", created by him in autumn of 2007, and transfer of the powers to his successor. Experts believe that the change of power among militants may result in sharp increase of separatists' activity in the region.

A school of hafizes (readers of the Koran by heart) will open on August 23 in Ramzan Kadyrov's family village - Khosi-Yurt (Tsentoroi). The school will be named after Zelimkhan, senior brother of President Kadyrov, who died in 2004.

Today, unknown persons blew up and shelled a column of OMON (special militia) vehicles in Dagestan. Under preliminary data, 12 militiamen were wounded. The incident happened near the village of Gubden, Karabudakhkent District.

Today, in Elista, near the building of the Kalmyk State University, opposite the House of Government of Kalmykia, a picket was held against the republic's law on monetization of privileges coming into effect from August 1.

As reported by the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) the Russian Federation, seven persons were wounded in the mass fight on July 30 in Dagestan.

In Baku, the police have dispersed a joint protest action of the oppositional parties "Musavat" and the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), held with the demands of the freedom of assembly, ensuring the democratic character of the parliamentary elections to be held on November 7 and account of the national interests of Azerbaijan at negotiations on Karabakh settlement.

The first nationwide contest of Ossetian beer "Iron Bagany-2010" is aimed towards revival of the traditions of house brewing and attraction of the population's interest to the national historic heritage, the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications of North Ossetia has announced.

As stated by Sergey Trifonov, director general of the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Barbos" - the Rostov park of live butterflies, the park opened in Rostov-on-Don is the first in the south of Russia and the largest in the country. In the first two days of its work, the park was visited by about 500 persons.

In Maikop, the capital of Adygea, a group of students-natives of Karachai-Circassia, accused of offending and beating a Russian guy will soon face the trial.

The residents of South Ossetia, who suffered in the August 2008 conflict, have addressed the authorities of other countries with a request to help in restoring the destroyed housing. According to their story, similar appeals to the leadership of the republic and Russia were fruitless.

On July 30, a mosque restored on public donations, was opened in aul Tkhagapsh, Lazarevskoe District of Sochi, as reported by Tatiana Katanidi, specialist of the department for interaction with law enforcement bodies and public organizations of the administration of Sochi.

As reported by the human rights defender himself, the investigation of the criminal case against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", for slandering President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov is over.

The beating of Timur Tskhovrebov, chairman of the public organization "Union of Ex-Combatants of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO)", is categorically contradictory to those democratic values, pursued by South Ossetia, said Lira Kozaeva-Tskhovrebova, director of the Resource Centre of South-Ossetian NGOs and chair of the association of women of South Ossetia for democracy and defence of human rights.

On July 29, the Board of the Bar of Dagestan disseminated a statement listing the facts of violence applied to lawyers in the republic and demanding to guarantee their safety and access to their clients. The statement was sent to the Minister of Internal Affairs Ali Magomedov and Public Prosecutor of Dagestan Andrei Nazarov.

President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev has accepted retirement of Ella Pamfilova, chair of the Human Rights Board under the President. This was reported by the Kremlin's press service.

The "Rosprirodnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Nature Supervision) made checks of the construction progress of Olympic objects in Sochi and revealed 25 violations of the nature protection legislation, on which fact administrative cases were initiated.

Experts are unanimous that the 12th round of Geneva Debates on safety and stability in Transcaucasia was not in much different from the previous ones in its futility.

In the city of Malgobek (Ingushetia), tonight a car was shelled, and an agent of the OBEP (Division for Fighting Economic Crime) of the Malgobek ROVD (District Interior Division) was killed.