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July 31, 2010 20:00

• OMON motorcade shelled in Dagestan with victims

  Today, unknown persons blew up and shelled a column of OMON (special militia) vehicles in Dagestan. Under preliminary data, 12 militiamen were wounded. The incident happened near the village of Gubden, Karabudakhkent District.

July 31, 2010 20:00

• School of Koran experts to open in Chechnya in August

  A school of hafizes (readers of the Koran by heart) will open on August 23 in Ramzan Kadyrov's family village - Khosi-Yurt (Tsentoroi). The school will be named after Zelimkhan, senior brother of President Kadyrov, who died in 2004.

July 31, 2010 19:00

• Picket against monetization of privileges held in Elista

  Today, in Elista, near the building of the Kalmyk State University, opposite the House of Government of Kalmykia, a picket was held against the republic's law on monetization of privileges coming into effect from August 1.

July 31, 2010 18:00

• ICPO: seven wounded in mass fight in Dagestan

  As reported by the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) the Russian Federation, seven persons were wounded in the mass fight on July 30 in Dagestan.

July 31, 2010 17:00

• Police disperses oppositional protest action in central Baku

  In Baku, the police have dispersed a joint protest action of the oppositional parties "Musavat" and the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), held with the demands of the freedom of assembly, ensuring the democratic character of the parliamentary elections to be held on November 7 and account of the national interests of Azerbaijan at negotiations on Karabakh settlement.

July 31, 2010 16:00

• North Ossetia to hold first national-cultural contest of Ossetian beer

  The first nationwide contest of Ossetian beer "Iron Bagany-2010" is aimed towards revival of the traditions of house brewing and attraction of the population's interest to the national historic heritage, the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications of North Ossetia has announced.

July 31, 2010 15:00

• Rostov-on-Don opens largest in Russia park of butterflies

  As stated by Sergey Trifonov, director general of the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Barbos" - the Rostov park of live butterflies, the park opened in Rostov-on-Don is the first in the south of Russia and the largest in the country. In the first two days of its work, the park was visited by about 500 persons.

July 31, 2010 14:00

• Adygea: case of Karachai-Circassians accused of extremism sent to court

  In Maikop, the capital of Adygea, a group of students-natives of Karachai-Circassia, accused of offending and beating a Russian guy will soon face the trial.

July 31, 2010 12:00

• Residents of South Ossetia address for help to other countries in house rebuilding

  The residents of South Ossetia, who suffered in the August 2008 conflict, have addressed the authorities of other countries with a request to help in restoring the destroyed housing. According to their story, similar appeals to the leadership of the republic and Russia were fruitless.

July 31, 2010 11:00

• Mosque opened in Sochi after reconstruction

  On July 30, a mosque restored on public donations, was opened in aul Tkhagapsh, Lazarevskoe District of Sochi, as reported by Tatiana Katanidi, specialist of the department for interaction with law enforcement bodies and public organizations of the administration of Sochi.

July 30, 2010 23:40

• Oleg Orlov's case sent to court

  As reported by the human rights defender himself, the investigation of the criminal case against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", for slandering President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov is over.

July 30, 2010 23:30

• Kozaeva-Tskhovrebova treats beating of leader of Ex-Combatants' Union of South Ossetia as "mob law"

  The beating of Timur Tskhovrebov, chairman of the public organization "Union of Ex-Combatants of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO)", is categorically contradictory to those democratic values, pursued by South Ossetia, said Lira Kozaeva-Tskhovrebova, director of the Resource Centre of South-Ossetian NGOs and chair of the association of women of South Ossetia for democracy and defence of human rights.

July 30, 2010 23:20

• Dagestan lawyers demand safety guarantees from MIA and Prosecutor's Office

  On July 29, the Board of the Bar of Dagestan disseminated a statement listing the facts of violence applied to lawyers in the republic and demanding to guarantee their safety and access to their clients. The statement was sent to the Minister of Internal Affairs Ali Magomedov and Public Prosecutor of Dagestan Andrei Nazarov.

July 30, 2010 23:10

• Ella Pamfilova's retirement accepted

  President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev has accepted retirement of Ella Pamfilova, chair of the Human Rights Board under the President. This was reported by the Kremlin's press service.

July 30, 2010 23:00

• "Rosprirodnadzor" reveals violations in Sochi Olympic objects

  The "Rosprirodnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Nature Supervision) made checks of the construction progress of Olympic objects in Sochi and revealed 25 violations of the nature protection legislation, on which fact administrative cases were initiated.

July 30, 2010 22:00

• Parties of Geneva Debates on stability in Transcaucasia admit failure of talks

  Experts are unanimous that the 12th round of Geneva Debates on safety and stability in Transcaucasia was not in much different from the previous ones in its futility.

July 30, 2010 22:00

• Militiaman killed in Ingushetia

  In the city of Malgobek (Ingushetia), tonight a car was shelled, and an agent of the OBEP (Division for Fighting Economic Crime) of the Malgobek ROVD (District Interior Division) was killed.

July 30, 2010 21:40

• A woman wounded by explosion in Makhachkala beach

  Today in the morning, an explosive device was triggered in the beach of the capital of Dagestan and wounded a woman.

July 30, 2010 21:20

• Azerbaijani journalists visit villas where their colleagues were beaten

  On July 29, a group of Azerbaijani journalists visited the villa in Mardakyan settlement in the vicinity of Baku, where on the previous day - July 28 - their colleagues - Elmin Badalov, a reporter of the newspaper "Eni Musavat", and Anar Geraily, deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Milli Yol", - were beaten. Near the place of the incident journalists were met by securities who said the villa belongs to "some foreigner."

July 30, 2010 21:10

• Kadyrov finds development of the code of behaviour for Chechens unreasonable

  President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov was critical to the offer of Vladimir Shvetsov, Deputy Plenipotentiary of Russian President of Russia in the NCFD, on the need to develop the code of behaviour for young people of the regions of Northern Caucasus.