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Today, the Budyonnovsk City Court, Stavropol Territory, has started considering the case of the teacher of mathematics accused of inciting a pupil of the 9th form to suicide.

Inspectors have found proofs of involvement of militaries of the battalion "Vostok" (East), which was subordinated to the so-called "GRU" (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff) in disappearance of their colleague Alikhan Khaladov in July 2004. This was stated by the official Chechen spokesman of the ID for Chechnya of the ICPO.

Young people from Abkhazia cannot take part in the "Camp of Peace" organized by the Council of Europe in Germany and dedicated to settlement and transformation of conflicts, because of visa problems: embassies of France and Germany in Moscow refused to give visas to them.

President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, who was wounded in an attempt on June 22, is in consciousness, works with documents and can receive visitors. This was reported today by Adam Gazdiev, press secretary of the permanent representative of Ingushetia at the President of Russia.

The investigation into the circumstances of the explosion in the Chechen capital continues. The number of victims of the terror act has reached nine. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it at law enforcement bodies of the republic.

On July 7, at 10:00 p.m., in the vicinity of Saberio village, Gali District of Abkhazia, frontier guards fixed two drones (unmanned aircrafts) flying from Georgia deep into the District. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Abkhazia adds that at 11:35 p.m. near Khukhun village, Tkuarchal District, another pair of drones was registered.

Two helicopters were shelled in the mountainous Shatoy District of Chechnya; one soldier was wounded. As reported by the Republic's law enforcement bodies, the helicopters had to make an emergency landing.

In the evening on July 7, in the centre of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, in the crossing of Dakhadaeva and Malygina Streets, not far from the central building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan, unknown persons shelled an on duty militia tour.

Highways of Chechnya are again at "war" on cars with tinted glasses. GIBDD (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate) agents stop cars and right in situ remove tinting film from glasses. This is the way local GIBDD bosses react to President Kadyrov's command of July 6 to get tougher in fighting against car tinted glasses.

As reported today by David Sanakoev, representative of the President of South Ossetia on human rights, mothers of South-Ossetian residents kidnapped by Georgian special agencies have sent an electronic letter to US President Barack Obama asking him to help to liberate their sons.

The data on the number of victims of the explosion, which happened today at about 1:20 p.m. Moscow time in the city of Grozny, is contradictory. According to the ID for Chechnya of the Russian ICPO, six persons received wounds. As to eyewitnesses and militiamen, who were in the place of the incident, they told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that there were no casualties and wounded persons.

The murder case of the observer of "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya has arrived to the Moscow Regional Military Court for repeated consideration, as reported by Alexander Minchanovskiy, press secretary of the Court.

As reported by Rashid Gaisanov, Acting President of Ingushetia, the murder case of the owner of the oppositional website "Ingushetia.Ru" Magomed Evloev has been delivered to the court.

An explosion took place in the Leninskiy District of the capital of Chechnya and wounded, according to different sources, from one to six persons.

The inspection conducted by a team of the Russian GPO in the law-enforcement bodies of Dagestan as to their efficiency in disclosing terrorist and extremist crimes and encroachments on life of law enforcers concluded their low efficiency.

The Ministry of Justice of Georgia has rejected the petition submitted by the Russia's GPO with the request on extradition of Russian sergeant Alexander Glukhov, who deserted in January from his unit in South Ossetia and ran away to Georgia.

The judicial panel on criminal cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has upheld the verdict of the Stavropol Territorial Court passed to residents of Ingushetia Ruslan Kostoev and Zurab Tsuroev accused of blowing up the passenger bus "Pyatigorsk-Stavropol" at the bus station in the city of Nevinnomyssk on December 9, 2007.

Today in the morning, in the centre of Nazran, unidentified persons have shelled a car with Militia Colonel Magomet Gadaborshev, head of the expert-criminalistic centre of the MIA of Ingushetia. This was reported by the press service of the Russian ICPO for Ingushetia.

Tigran Arakelyan, arrested activist of the youth wing of the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC), who was among the young men, attacked on July 1 by the police for dissemination of leaflets about an oppositional rally, has announced a hunger strike.

On July 6, the National Opera and Ballet Theatre in the capital of Armenia hosted the international flower festival and contest of florists "Brabillion is a Flower of Peace" with participation of professionals from Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan and Armenia.