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The court granted a motion of viewing a video record of sufferer Zelmhan Chitigov’s evidence at a trial on the case of ex-employees of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Ingushetia accused of using torture against the detainees.

The defense of Sergey Arakcheev, ex-officer of Inner Troops of the Ministry of Interior Affairs who fought in Chechnya, sentenced to 15 years of custody for accusation of murder of three peaceful residents of Chechnya in January of 2003 appealed against the law “On state forensic expert activities” in the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.

The meeting of the lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, who is defending Anvar Guseinov, a resident of Dagestan, who complained that employees of the Khasavyurt ROVD (District Interior Division) had beaten him, with the local Minister of Internal Affairs has been scheduled for July 26.

As declared today by Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the decision to introduce the state of emergency in connection with heavy rains in Krymsk was falsified: the document about the allegedly made decision was drawn up in the morning on July 7.

At the first hearing on the merits of Rasul Mirzaev's case, held today at the Zamoskvoretsky District Court, the prosecutor Yulia Zotova has announced the indictment, followed by questioning of the victims – Tatiana and Alexander Agafonov and their daughter Olga Agafonova.

Zalimgeri Khagasov, the Mayor of the city of Nalchik, plans to challenge at the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria the decision to suspend him from office. Now, Zalimgeri Khagasov is officially on the labour vacation.

The decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Court of theRepublicofKalmykiaobliged the Republic's Children's Hospital to pay to parents of children, who in 1988 were infected with HIV, 300,000 roubles in compensation for moral damage.

The first court session on the merits against Rasul Mirzaev, World Champion in Mixed Martial Arts, after whose strike Ivan Agafonov, a 19-year-old Moscow resident, died, is scheduled for July 25, and it will question the victims Tatiana and Alexander Agafonov. The parents of the deceased young man gave testimonies during the preliminary investigation, and then they would voice their position in the courtroom. They did not accept Rasul Mirzaev's apologies and did not change their attitude to the case. This was stated by Oksana Mikhalkina, the representative of the parents of the deceased young man.

Beskhanum Gasanova, the resident of thevillage of Chernyaevka of the Kizlyar District, the mother of Shakhban Gasanov, who on July 21 was detained by local law enforcement agents for possession of weapons, appealed to the public organization "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy) and asked to protect her family from persecution of power agents. According to a source at the ROVD (District Interior Division) of the Kizlyar District, Shakhban Gasanov is a member of the armed group.

Last week, from July 16 to July 22, 2012, at least 21 persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot" based on own materials of the edition and information from other open sources. Of them, 12 persons perished and 9 more were wounded.

Start of the sacred Muslim month of Ramadan; presidential elections in Nagorno-Karabakh; mass brawl, a serious road accident and election of Mayor of Nevinnomyssk in the Stavropol Territory; Shein loses trials in district courts of Astrakhan on abolition of Mayor election; start of consideration of Rasul Mirzaev's case, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of July 16-22, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Zaur Djalilov, an employee of the Akhvakh ROVD (District Interior Division), who is accused of murdering Imadibir Makhiev, 16, an 11th form pupil from the village of Karata, Akhvakh District, was suspended from his work for the period of investigation.

The main motive for the crimes committed by Sergey Tsapok and members of his gang in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, was revenge. This was announced today at a press conference in Rostov-on-Don by officials of the Department for the Southern Federal District (SFD) of the Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO). The case of crimes committed by the gang, including the massacre committed in Ametov's house, will be considered by the Krasnodar Territorial Court with participation of a jury.

The investigation examines several versions within the criminal case on the mass brawl in Kislovodsk; however, inspectors see no motives of nationalistic or religious hatred, reports the Investigatory Department for the Stavropol Territory of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Zaur Dzeitov, an officer of Ingush police, sent on a mission to Chechnya, has disappeared under mysterious circumstances in Grozny. This was reported by his relatives, who turned to one of Chechen public organizations.