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At their extraordinary session, Georgian MPs have passed in the first reading a legislative package, initiated by the party in power and aimed to toughen the rules on holding protest actions.

Vyacheslav Kovalenko, former ambassador of Russia to Georgia, has been appointed a new Russia's plenipotentiary in Armenia, as reported in the official statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

In the forest between the villages of Chemulga (Ingushetia) and Achkhoy-Martan (Chechnya), today in the course of a special operation conducted by the MIAs of these two republics, four suspected militants were liquidated.

The government of Dagestan has held a special sitting dedicated to the problems with drinking water in the republic and convoked because of an increased number of complaints from the population on deficit or poor quality of the water they have to use.

Armenia has signed a contract with the international consortium WorleyParsons to the sum of 500 million US dollars on organizing and managing the construction of a new nuclear power unit. The contract will be implemented in four stages, as reported by Armen Movsisyan, Minister of Energy of Armenia.

Two Moscow residents, who had sold the number plates from the Lexus car hijacked in Moscow to the Toyota, which was used by the suicide bomber to blow up the cortege of President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, were detained in Russian capital.

The first aquapark in Chechnya was opened in Gudermes, the second largest city of the republic.

The European Union has decided to provide a 12.1-million euros tranche to Georgia for improving the living conditions of the forced migrant, who have been living as refugees back from early 1990s. This was announced by the European Commission's representative office in Georgia. The tranche is a part of the total help of 51.5 million US dollars.

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.