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The Syria's establishment of diplomatic relations with South Ossetia was caused by Syrian authorities' dependence on Russia and testifies to the insincerity of the proposal put forward by the Russian party for rapprochement with Georgia, believe the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Law enforcers have conducted searches at the Azerbaijani Drama Theatre in Derbent, suspecting its leadership of financial frauds, a source has reported, adding that a criminal case has not been initiated yet; this issue is under consideration.

Zaur Dadaev, sentenced in the case on the Boris Nemtsov's murder, has declared a hunger strike to protest against his unjustified placement in a punishment cell, his advocate reported.

In the Central African Republic (CAR), journalist Orkhan Djemal was killed together with his two colleagues while working on a documentary film about the private military company "Wagner". The information is confirmed by his wife and journalist Maxim Shevchenko.

Aslan Yandiev, extradited from Slovakia to Russia against the UN position, has been charged. He is accused of committing grave and especially grave crimes in the territory of Vladikavkaz, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports today.

Robert Kocharyan, the second president of Armenia, arrested in the case of the dispersal of demonstrators in 2008, no longer has any serious political influence and has not earlier announced his participation in the election, political analysts stated.

On July 30, the "Grozny" TV Channel stated that Ibragim Yangulbaev, accused of extremism, had not filed any complaint about the lack of medical assistance at the SIZO (pre-trial prison). People who watched the TV story drew attention to the fact that Ibragim Yangulbaev himself had not been given a chance to speak.

Makhmud Velitov, Imam of the Moscow mosque "Yardyam", sentenced on the charge of justifying terrorism, was transferred to a prison hospital with complaints of heart pain, his advocate reported.

The state-owned enterprise "Chechenfilm", against which leaders a criminal case on fraud has been instituted, is liquidated and its general director left Russia, reported Alvi Karimov, the spokesman for the leader of Chechnya.

On July 30, a minor, born in Chechnya, accused on suspicion of attacking a policeman in Moscow, was arrested for two months.

Within a week, the authorities of Chechnya failed to react publicly to the appeal of two women from Chechnya to Ramzan Kadyrov, in which they complained about inhuman treatment of their relatives kept in Russian colonies.

The Constitutional Court (CC) of Georgia has granted the claim of activists of the "Girchi" Party, having recognized the administrative punishment for the use of marijuana to be unconstitutional.

The information about the shelling of policemen in the Novolaksky District is untrue, said the spokesperson of the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). According to his version, there were no attempts to attack law enforcers.

The four suspects of committing assassination attempt on the head of Ganja and organizing subsequent riots were killed by law enforcers, dozens of people were arrested or declared wanted, the Azerbaijani General Public Prosecutor has announced. However, a rights defender told the "Caucasian Knot" that the investigation is not transparent.

In Moscow, a charge has been brought against a young man detained after an attack on a policeman with a knife. During an interrogation, the native of Chechnya has voiced his dislike of law enforcers, a source reported.

Secret services check information about the shelling of a police squad in the Novolaksky District. No information about possible victims is reported, a source reports today.

Today, members of NGOs and journalists have appealed to the Azerbaijani Ministry of Justice (MoJ) with a request to let blogger Mekhman Guseinov, sentenced for slander, visit his seriously ill mother.

Guilty verdicts to Ingush CCE agents in the case on torture; arrest of former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan in the case on dispersal of demonstrators in 2008, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 23-29, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Since early 2017, 125 people, who fell victim to persecution, left Chechnya, the "Kommersant" reports today in the article "In the Chechen Republic, there are no sex minorities or their number drops" with reference to a member of the movement "Russian LGBT-Network".

The death toll of eight people includes a child, investigators reported. The dead were workers from the CIS countries, who lived in a temporary shelter on a railway right-of-way, the Sochi administration reported.