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Today, at about 8:00 p.m. Moscow time, people who happened to be near the bus station at the exit out of Makhachkala heard a submachine gun round of fire.

For the whole time of existence in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) of the commission for adaptation of militants to civilian life, not a single militant's application, said Valery Khatazhukov, the head of the regional human rights centre, at a press conference in Nalchik on July 13.

Today in Kutaisi journalists of local mass media have held a protest action opposite the city administrative building; they protested against the imposition of restrictions on visiting the Mayoralty.

As reported by Murtazali Tagirov, the head of the human rights organization "Fighter for Justice", Magomed Ibragimov, a resident of the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, who was kidnapped on July 13 by unidentified men in masks, has returned home.

The authorities of Georgia and South Ossetia have failed to reach a consensus on the issue of the presence of the post of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), which was moved on June 29 from the outskirt of the village of Zardiantkari into its centre, said Khokh Gagloity, the deputy envoy of the president of South Ossetia on post-conflict settlement.

In Armenia, at today's court session, the public prosecutor Akop Martirosyan demanded to sentence Tigran Arakelyan, an activist of the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC) to six years of imprisonment.

Two out of the seven militants liquidated who were killed in special operation in Dagestan have been identified as the leaders of local bandit groupings Islam and Arsen Magomedov, said the Information Centre of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

The police today have detained in Nalchik the head of the Pension Fund of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) Khasanbi Sheozhev, suspected of fraudulent embezzlement of almost 70 million roubles.

The Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) is investigating the circumstances of disappearance in Dagestan of two young children of Vitali Razdobudsko and Maria Khorosheva. According to investigators, the kids were kidnapped by the members of the armed underground.

On July 13, the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) hosted an action "Give Me Life!" aimed at strengthening the family and preservation of family values and traditions. The action tried to draw attention to the issue of abortion.

Representatives of three oppositional political parties and civil society activists of Southern Caucasus are taking part in July 13-15 Tbilisi-based conference "Promoting freedom, peace and prosperity in the Caucasus".