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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.

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.