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Journalists of North Ossetia have signed-in in support of their colleague Timur Tskhovrebov, who was attacked and beaten in South Ossetia, and sent an open appeal to the republic's authorities.

In spring and summer this year, natives from Chechnya have taken part in at least a dozen mass fights, which burst out in different regions of the Russian Federation; several more were prevented. Experts indicate a high level of xenophobia in the country and a low level of tolerance, including among Chechens themselves.

In Komsomolskoe village, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, six local residents were kidnapped and taken away by armed people into some unknown place.

The citizens of Georgia, who were detained on July 18 in South Ossetia by a unit of the Frontier Department of the FSB of the Russian Federation for an attempt to cross the frontier of South Ossetia, were released with imposition of administrative fines.

Today in Moscow, at about 3:45 p.m., an aircraft that arrived to Domodedovo Airport from the city of Mineralnye Vody was hijacked. Now, the passengers are released and hijacker detained: no victims.

On July 27, the court session on the fact of Vaan Khalafyan's death held at the court of general jurisdiction of the Kotaik Region grew up into a fight between relatives of the casualty and of the defendants. The session was postponed till August 18.

The fact of kidnapping of Anzor Shadov, a resident of the city of Nartkala, Urvan District, is under preliminary check, as envisioned by the law, said advocate Zhamal Mokaev, who represents the interests of the Shadov family.

About a dozen of human rights organizations of Armenia have disseminated a joint statement with a concern about the state of things in Criminal Corrective Establishments (CCEs) of the country, in particular, that they are overcrowded.

In the evening on July 27, three armed persons set a restaurant on fire in Makhachkala and shot dead a visitor who tried to interfere. This was reported by the press service of the MIA of Dagestan.

Lieutenant Colonel Kamil Dzhabrailov, deputy head of the Kirov ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala, died from received wounds in hospital.

Relatives and advocate of Alaudin Nalgiev, who was detained on July 14, continue insisting that the young man is illegally kept in custody and was exposed to torture. Employees of the Ingush branch of the Human Rights Society "Memorial" sent an inquiry to prosecutor's office.

The Moscow City Court has sentenced Rasul Akhmaev, accused of complicity in the murder of Nazim Kaziakhmedov, an inspector of the General Prosecutor's Office, to 12 years of high security colony. He was found guilty of buying the firearm that was used for the murder and of participating in organization of the murder.

Mikhail Kulumbegov, a resident of Gvirgvina village, Znaur District of South Ossetia, who was kidnapped today by unidentified persons and released two hours later, asserts that "his kidnappers wanted to exchange him for a citizen of Georgia, allegedly kept by the South-Ossetian party."

Explosion at Baksan HPP; severe beating of oppositionist in South Ossetia; loud statements of Balkar hunger-strikers, - look these and other events in the review of the week of July 19-25, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Different sources give different versions of the night incident in Astrakhan, where a militiaman was killed, and a girl-his colleague was wounded.