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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.

Karen Karapetyan, head of the youth wing of the Armenian National Congress (ANC), has announced a termless hunger in protest against the arrest of Tigran Arakelyan, an activist of his wing.

In Armenia, in Darbnik village, Ararat District, a social shelter was opened for 46 families of Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan and Iraq. The house was granted to them for gratuitous use.

After cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in Chechnya, the count of kidnapped residents is in dozens. This was stated by Natalia Estemirova, member of the Grozny branch of the HRC "Memorial", to the "Caucasian Knot".

Petimat Archakovа asks to defend the rights of her son Magomed Archakov suspected of concealing militants. Currently, he is kept at the IVS (temporary detention facility) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia and, according to his mother's statement, is exposed to torture.

As reported by co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group on Nagorno-Karabakh, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan has consented to have another meeting with Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliev on Karabakh settlement, as planned, in Moscow on July 17.

On July 8, the Board of the "People's Party" of South Ossetia, headed by Roland Kelekhsaev, passed an appeal to the United States and other countries of the world to recognize the right of South-Ossetian people to build their independent democratic state.

At a press conference on July 7, Magomed Ismailov, Deputy Interior Minister, said, referring to operative data, that Dagestan has no more than 100 militants.

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.