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On July, 28, the UN Committee on sanctions concerning “Al-Qaeda” and physical and juridical persons connected with it adopted a decision of including “The Caucasus Emirate” into the sanction list. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its approval of this decision of UN Security Council.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) launched a consideration of a complaint lodged by relatives of Aslan Davletukaev, a resident of Chechnya, who had been kidnapped and killed in January 2004 near the city of Gudermes.

Tomorrow, on August 3, the Moscow City Court will select a jury for consideration of the case on the murder of Yegor Sviridov, a fan of the "Spartak" Football Club, in last December. The jury selection will take place behind closed doors, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by the press service of the Moscow City Court.

Salman Tepshaev and Arthur Sakaev, natives of the Naur District of Chechnya, who had been detained in Astrakhan on July 29 by the power agents, were brought to the republic.

The court in the Krasnodar Territory will consider the case against 17 teenagers accused of organizing riots in a juvenile correctional facility in the city of Belorechensk.

As stated on July 28 by the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for the Vologda Region, a criminal case on the fact of posting a video showing a murder of a Caucasian on the Internet is under investigation.

During preliminary investigation measures of physical pressure were used against the defendants on the case of “Urvan jama'at” which they are going to declare in court, attorney of one of the defendants Tatiana Psomiadi told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent.

A trial on the case of Badri Bitsadze, ex- Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, ex-Head of frontier police, Nino Burjanadze’s husband, will start in the city court of Tbilisi today. Bitsadze is in search and, according to his wife, is going to ask for a political asylum in one of the EU countries.

Representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan claim having no information about the "shahid belts", that, according to their colleagues' story, were hidden at a house during the special operation in the city of Dagestanskie Ogni on July 24. However, according to the MIA's information, guns were found at the house.

Today, the Moscow City Court sentenced Ruslan Ozniev, a resident of Ingushetia, accused of preparing terror acts in Moscow. He was sentenced to 17 years in prison, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by the press service of the Court.

The assassination of Garun Kurbanov, Chief of the Information Policy of the Dagestani President, was, most likely, caused by his uncompromising attitude towards extremists. This was reported by Rasul Khaibullaev, Press Secretary of the President of Dagestani. Gadjimurat Kamalov, the editor-in-chief of the independent newspaper "Chernovik" (Draft), shares this attitude.

Ex-officer Sergey Lapin under the alias of “Cadet” who was acknowledged guilty of beating up resident of Grozny Zelimhan Murdalov will spend ten years in prison. The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation granted the supervisory appeal of the defense by reducing Lapin’s custody term by half a year.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, where on the highway Nalchik-Nartkala unidentified persons shot dead Amurbek Bitokhov, Deputy Head of the Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Russian Federation for the Urvan District, aviators are involved in searching the attackers.

Court hearings on the case of the murder of four soldiers at a Karabakh Army's position continue in Nagorno-Karabakh. The request for re-examination to define the mental state of Manvel Azroyan, the defendant, was denied. The court will continue its work on August 3.

A conflict between natives of Armenia and Azerbaijan in the town of Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region, developed into a skirmish, three persons got wounded. The incident happened on July, 24, but the police officially reported it only on July, 26.