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Michelle Montas, official representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations, said at the briefing that the UN military observers and policemen will leave Abkhazia by the end of the next week.

Chechen law enforcers have failed so far to identify the persons involved in committing the terror act on July 7 in Grozny. Then, as a result of an explosion nine persons suffered including two children and two militiamen.

On July 10, prominent public figures of Georgia made a presentation of a new oppositional public movement named "Defend Georgia" ("Daitsavi Sakartvelo"), a peaceful change of power being its target.

Foreign films will be on in Georgia only dubbed into the Georgian language, or with captions in Georgian.

The European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) has accepted the complaint lodged by the family of Magomed Evloev, assassinated owner of the oppositional website "Ingushetia.Ru" to consideration, as reported by Musa Pliev, a lawyer, who represents the family's interests.

The co-chairs of the Minsk OSCE Group for settling Nagorno-Karabakh conflict refused to visit Nagorno-Karabakh, making reference to bad weather.

The Amnesty International (AI) is expressing its concern of the fate of Maskhud Abdullaev, a son of Chechen field commander Supyan Abdullaev, deported from Egypt. Human rights activists doubt that he is at large.

When Vladimir Putin, as President, promised not to send regular soldiers to "hot spots", he relied on incorrect data provided by militaries; therefore, the promise is still unfulfilled. This is the opinion of Sergey Krivenko, coordinator of the Public Initiative "Citizen and Army" and coordinator of the All-Russia Coalition of Public Associations "For Democratic Alternative Civil Service".

In the near future, a concept of a tourist centre in the city of Dzhermuk will be submitted to the government of Armenia; according to the concept, this resort will become an international-standard year-round tourist centre. The concept was designed by local and foreign specialists.

The opposition of Georgia has handed over to the authorities the list of political prisoners with a demand to set them free; however, so far, no reaction has followed, as stated by Georgian political scientist Paata Zakareishvili.

During the week on July 2-8, as a result of combat clashes and diversions in Ingushetia, Chechnya and Dagestan, at least 28 persons were killed and at least 36 persons wounded.

13 directors of brick works in Dagestan are brought to administrative responsibility for using slave labour; materials on one of them were sent to the Investigatory Committee for opening a criminal case.

Young activist of the opposition Tigran Arakelyan, arrested on charge of attacking a policeman, has stated today that he gave up the hunger strike announced by him in prison and plans to choose other methods of his struggle.

On July 9, in municipal district Plievo of the city of Nazran, unknown persons shelled a car with Israpil Ozdoev, head of the security division of Karabulak OVD (Interior Department). As reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia, the militia official died in situ.

General-Lieutenant Movses Akopyan, Minister of Defence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), has stated to journalists that the Karabakh party is ready to remove snipers from the forefront. The Minister has emphasized that Azerbaijan is against removal of snipers.

The rally in Tbilisi to mark 3 months after the start of the opposition's termless protest action, which should have gathered, under oppositionists' plans some 10,000 participants, was in fact about 1500-strong. It is reported by a Georgian journalist who is now in Tbilisi.

Members of the Ingush human rights Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization (ANCO) "Mashr" told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about illegal actions of power agents against them. They explain the pressure by their applications to the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR).

The attempt on President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov was organized by Magomed Evloev, head of a criminal grouping, also known under nickname Magas. This was reported today by Ruslan Alkhanov, Minister of Internal Affairs of Chechnya.

On July 8, on the Family Day, relatives of missing people held an action in Grozny near the monument to perished journalists. The action was organized by the regional public organization "Search of Missing Persons".

Militaries and law enforcers of Chechnya give contradictory information about the incident in the morning on July 8 in the mountain area of the republic. Earlier, it was reported that in Shatoy District two helicopters of federal forces were shelled, and one soldier was wounded.