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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.

According to a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic, on July 5, a suspected member of the armed underground committed suicide not to get arrested.

On July 6, the Azerbaijani Court on Grave Crimes continued considering the case of the grouping named "Forest Brothers" and accused of a series of crimes, including the act of terror "Abu-Bekr" Mosque. The state accuser Murvet Gasanov announced the indictment.

The operative-strategic exercises "Kavkaz-2009", held in the North-Caucasian Military District (NCMD) in the south of Russia since June 29, are over.

Khachatur Sukiasyan, a deputy of the National Assembly of Armenia, who was announced into search last March under charges of organizing mass disorders on March 1, 2008, could not exclude his exit out of the underground, where he remained for 16 months.

President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, who was seriously wounded in the attempt on June 22, is already in consciousness, on an active mend and is able to read. This was stated by the press service of Ingushetia's permanent representative office at the President of the Russian Federation.

On July 6, oppositionist Zahariya Kutsnashvili, representing the organization named "Law for People" and acting on behalf of the initiative group, made public the list of political prisoners of Georgia and addressed the US administration and leaders of other countries with a request to influence the Georgian government and urge it to release all the political prisoners by the arrival to Georgia of US Vice-President Joe Biden, scheduled on July 20-24.

With the advent of a new MIA boss, the situation in Dagestan will improve only if violence against dissidents is stopped. This was stated by Dagestanian political scientist Gadzhimurad Kamalov in his interview to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

A multifunctional helicopter Mi-8 was shelled in the morning on July 5 in the mountainous Shatoy District of Chechnya; and a soldier was wounded. Now, the militants who could make the attack are searched in the vicinities.

On July 6, Dmitri Artemyev, a soldier of the Russian Army, who deserted to Georgia from South Ossetia, was granted a status of a political asylum-seeker. According to Alexander Nalbandov, deputy minister of foreign affairs of Georgia, his refugee status will be decided in a couple of months.

The association of victims of Beslan terror act named "Beslan Mothers" and the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan" plan to hold in Beslan (Northern Ossetia) an all-Russian congress of victims of the terror act. Now the organizers are in search of sources to fund the event.

In Astrakhan, a criminal case was initiated against 13 natives of Dagestan suspected of a group raping a disabled girl of 25.

Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation, has stated that there are serious achievements in disclosing the attempt on President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov and the murder of the Minister of Interior of Dagestan Adilgerei Magomedtagirov.

As reported by Adam Gazdiev, press secretary of the permanent mission of Ingushetia at the President of the Russian Federation, President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, who was wounded in a terror act on June 22, is on the mend.

Simon Papuashvili, coordinator of the organization named "Human Rights Centre" and located in Tbilisi, is sure that adoption by the authorities of Azerbaijan of amendment to the Law on NGOs will make the work of these organizations in the country impossible.

Additional militia forces from Chechnya were deployed in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia. Measures of operative response have been strengthened in the district; and a broad-scale special operation was launched.