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In Yerevan, protesters have come to the building, where the former president of Armenia's press conference is scheduled, and demanded to cancel the decision to release Robert Kocharyan from custody.

The signing of the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea in general meets Azerbaijani interests. However, the document has failed to remove all the sea contradictions, the Azerbaijani experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The arrest in Istanbul of Seda Dudurkaeva, a daughter of the former head of the Chechen Branch of the Federal Migration Service (FMS), was caused by a suspicion of using a false passport, and not by links with Syrian militants, her advocate has explained.

The court of the Dubai Emirate has ordered the "FlyDubai" Airline to pay about 217,000 US dollars as compensation to children of the victims of the plane crash in Rostov-on-Don.

Law enforcement bodies have reported the murder of a suspect in organizing riots in Ganja. The casualty, as Azerbaijan law enforcers assert, professed radical religious views. He became the fifth person, killed by law enforcers after the riots in Ganja.

The many-hours-long queues on the Russian-Georgian border have been created artificially; and the Russian customs officials guilty of that should be dismissed, said the author of the electronic petition, which was signed by more than 2400 people.

Russian court has found a resident of Dagestan to be a member of the "Makhachkala" armed grouping and sentenced him to 11 years in colony.

Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the Republican Alternative (ReAl) Party, who was conditionally released from prison, is back at home and intends to continue his oppositional political activities.

The Five-Day War, which ended on August 12, 2008, brought untold sufferings to many residents of South Ossetia and Georgia, the journalists, who witnessed the events of ten years ago, have recollected.

The Court of Appeal (CoA) has cancelled the decision to place Robert Kocharyan behind bars, referring to his inviolability as the former president of Armenia. However, the accusations of dispersing the oppositionist rally have not been dropped from him, said his advocate.

During the week of August 6-12, 2018, there were no recorded events related to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. There were no reports of victims or casualties. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Within the last 24 hours, positions of Azerbaijani militaries in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled for 79 times, including from machine guns, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

Today, the appellate instance has replaced the remaining prison term of Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the Republican Alternative (ReAl) Party, for the conditional punishment. However, the court has not acquitted the oppositionist, his advocate has noted.

At the "Verkhny Lars" checkpoint, travelers have to stay in a line for more than 10 hours, the Department for North Ossetia of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) reports today. In social networks, tourists note that officials underestimate the problem on the border between Russia and Georgia.

At the fifth Caspian summit in Kazakhstan, Vladimir Putin has announced that the port to be built in the city of Kaspiysk until 2025 will be able to receive ships with a workload of 15,000-25,000 tons.

Ten years after the August 2008 events, Georgian war veterans told the "Caucasian Knot" how the acute phase of the conflict, which went down in history as the "five-day war," began and developed. War veterans said that large-scale military operations began not on August 8, but on August 6, when the villages of Nuli and Avnevi were destroyed by mortar fire, and on August 2, wounded law enforcers began to enter the military hospital.

Tenth anniversary of Five-Day War; departure of North-Caucasian pilgrims to Hajj – read about these and other event that happened in the Caucasus during the week of August 6-12, 2018, in the review prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

In the Krasnosulin District, Rostov Region, 15 activists went out to protest, demanding from the authorities to pay attention to farmers' land problems.

Rayudin Yusufov, a former Dagestani official, accused of fraud, has reported to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) that he was detained without observing the necessary formalities.

On August 12, in Kazakhstan, the leaders of the so-called "Caspian Five" countries signed the Convention on Legal Status of the Caspian Sea. Presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan have called the deal historic.