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On July 21, in the house of Shakhban Gasanov, a resident of the village of Chernyaevka, Kizlyar District of Dagestan, who was detained on suspicion of involvement in the armed underground, power agents found weapons. Gasanov's relatives assert that they were planted.

Magomed Sulaev, a resident of Dagestan, who was detained on July 20 and whose relatives said that he had been kidnapped by unidentified persons, was found at the Khasavyurt ROVD (District Interior Division) and released. Mr Sulaev told his advocate that Anvar Guseinov, who was detained together with him, was severely beaten.

Two militants have been liquidated in a special operation in Dagestan. One of them is Temirbek Temirbekov, the leader of the so-called "Kizilyurt" grouping, law enforcers report.

Today, in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), in the course of operative-search actions, law enforcers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and FSB Department for the KBR have liquidated an alleged militant.

Relatives of two local residents kidnapped today from the mosque in the village of Bairam, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, announced their plans to hold a protest actions if the young men were not released by the morning of July 21.

Anzor Utov, 21, a resident of the village of Kishpek, Baksan District, has stated his illegal detention, beating and use of torture against him by law enforcers. He asserts that policemen had planted pistol cartridges into his pocket and forced him to declare that he tried to shoot at them from the pistol he had allegedly received from an earlier killed member of the armed underground.

The Astrakhan Regional Court has repeatedly convicted ten officers of the Traffic Police (known as GIBDD) of the Regional Interior, who figured in the case of systematic bribe-taking and sentenced them to imprisonment for 3.5-8 years, the Regional Prosecutor's Office has reported today.

The authorities of Novorossiysk assure that the townsmen were warned of possible natural disaster in proper time. Meanwhile, the residents of injured districts of Novorossiysk declare the contrary: the bodies of state authority issued no warning to the population.

Lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova reports that her client, resident of Dagestan Abdurahman Djakaev suspected of illegal storage of arms, was unlawfully kept in custody. According to her, her client's custody term expired yesterday, July, 18, but he has not yet been released.

On July, 18, the court in Tuapse acknowledged local resident Maxim Butov accused of blowout of a car belonging to activists of "Environmental Watch on North Caucasus" guilty during a trial on Suren Gazaryan and Evgeny Vitishko's case.

Prosecutor General's of Dubai exonerated Deputy of State Duma of the Russian Federation Adam Delimkhanov who in 2009 on the initiative of Dubai party was declared a wanted person by Interpol from all the charges. This was reported by Senator Ziyad Sabsabi.

The advocate Luiza Isaeva has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that her petition filed more than a week ago and requesting to hold a medical examination of Akhmedhan Aushev, a resident of Nazran, detained during a special operation in Ingushetia and exposed, according to the defence, to torture by power agents, has not been considered yet.

Angelina Belova, an 11-year-old girl has disappeared in the settlement of Tabachny, Maikop District of Adygea. The investigation does not rule out that the girl could be murdered.

Alexander Burdenko, an employee of the investigatory division of the MIA, accused of committing a traffic accident in Volgograd, has put part of responsibility on the driver of the second car, which participated in the accident.