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The positions of the Azerbaijani armed forces in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled 20 times during a day, including from machine guns, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reported.

The Prosecutor's Office of Armenia has toughened the charge brought against participants of the student movement who tried to throw blogger Narek Malyan into a garbage can. The case of an attempted kidnapping has been brought to court, investigators report.

Islam Gugov, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), sentenced to 16 years in prison after his voluntary return from Syria, has sent a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), in which he claims the second sentence for one and the same crime, a frequent change of judges and the inability to question witnesses.

In July 2019, after the ban on direct Russia-Georgia flights, the number of Russian tourists in Georgia decreased by 14% compared to the same period of 2018. Hotel business professionals in Batumi have noted that the total number of foreign tourists did not decrease due to a bigger inflow from other countries.

The official portal of the government of the Rostov Region was the most open for users, while the websites of the authorities of Chechnya, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria and Ingushetia took the last places in the rating of the "Infometr" Project Centre.

The Armenian Diaspora is drafting complaints to the Prosecutor's Office on behalf of the workers of the Sochi Airport, who claim that they had been fired because of their nationality.

Alexei Frenkel, a convict for the murder of Andrei Kozlov, First Deputy Chairman of the Russian Central Bank, plans to testify against Dagestani entrepreneurs, Ziyavudin and Magomed Magomedov, Frenkel's advocate has stated. The Magomedov brothers have nothing to do with Kozlov's murder, their advocate asserts.

The man, who had attacked the Rostov LGBT activist, Anna Dvornichenko, during her picket, has disrupted her lecture by throwing a smoke bomb into the café.

The Urvan District Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has extended the house arrest of the activist, Martin Kochesoko, by two months.

Azad Gasanov, an activist of the "Musavat" Party, was found guilty of illegal drug dealing, but was released after the court mitigated his punishment. Gasanov himself has treated the verdict as unfair.

During the week of July 29-August 4, 2019, no one fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

It is not so important for the Kremlin who wins the presidential election in Abkhazia, while the stability in the region is of more importance for Moscow. This opinion was voiced by Alexander Krylov, a researcher from the Russian Academy of Science (RAS), when he commented on the meeting between Vladislav Surkov and Raul Khadjimba. The visit of the President Putin's aide to Abkhazia testifies to the support of the current president of the republic, objects Arthur Ataev, the associate professor at the Moscow State Institute of Culture.

Completion of registration of candidates for the posts of heads in four regions of Southern Russia; rise in prices for food and gasoline after the fall of lari in Georgia; emergency situations caused by bad weather in Southern Russia; start of Russian pilgrims' journey to Hajj, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 29-August 4, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Magomedsaid Gazaliev, who was released from imprisonment because of his grave disease, flew with his female relative to Makhachkala. In the colony, he had to seek transfer to prison hospital when his condition worsened, said a former prisoner.

An amateur futsal tournament in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, an arrested journalist of the "Chernovik", held in Makhachkala, attracted 14 teams.

During the visit of Mamuka Bakhtadze, the Georgian Premier, to village of Beshumi in Adjara, about a hundred persons held a rally demanding to dismiss Giorgi Gakhariya, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). There was a skirmish of the participants of the rally and law enforcers.

The trade union of Georgian railwaymen has called for a 1.5-fold wage increase, otherwise threatening a mass strike. The "Georgian Railways" have treated the workers' demands as unjustified.

Law enforcers have liquidated the improvised explosive devices (IEDs) found in an abandoned warehouse in the Untsukul District of Dagestan, the Russia's FSB has reported.

In the past, the practice of blood feud was widespread among Azerbaijanis, but for the modern country it is an atypical phenomenon, Orientalists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala has arrested Fikret Radjabov, an MP of the National Assembly (Parliament) of Dagestan, for two months on suspicion of a fraud.