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Russia prefers to build its relations with Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent countries, despite the statements of South-Ossetian politicians about their desire to join Russia, political analysts have stated. In their opinion, unlike the Crimea, Abkhazia and South Ossetia are perceived by Russian authorities as a foreign territory.

174 residents of Chechnya, who decided to make a pilgrimage this year, have flown to Medina today, the republic's Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM, or Muftiate) has reported.

Elshad Mekhtiev, 24, and a 14-year-old boy were hospitalized after an explosion of a mine in an Azerbaijani village located near the troops contact line.

During the last 24 hours, the territories of three villages were shelled in the Karabakh conflict zone, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

The checkpoints on South-Ossetian-Georgian border are closed from the evening on August 6 until the morning on August 9, during the events on the anniversary of the start of the "Five-Day War". This was reported on the Facebook by the Committee of State Security (KGB) of South Ossetia.

The mother of the blogger Mekhman Guseinov, who is serving his sentence in the colony, has died. The blogger was released for several hours to say farewell to her. Mekhman Guseinov and his brother Emin Guseinov, who is in political emigration in Europe, have accused the Azerbaijani authorities of their mother's death, treating the circumstances of her death as strange.

Making hero of Yusup Temirkhanov is an alarming signal, which shows the republic residents' readiness to support the "avengers", the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The mourning events in memory of Yusup Temirkhanov, convicted for killing Yuri Budanov, are over in the village of Geldagan. The funeral was attended by tens of thousands people, including from Ingushetia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria and Georgia.

Ruzanna Beglaryan, the wife of Vachagan Kazaryan, a former security head of Serzh Sargsyan, has been accused of illegal enrichment and concealment of incomes. She is under recognizance no to leave.

Although Chechnya has been recognized as one of the healthiest regions in Russia, the number of people treated as disabled is growing in the republic; by this indicator, it has already outstripped Dagestan.

The Georgian "Palitranews" TV Company has posted a video of supporters of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court, containing threats addressed to those involved in special operations in Georgia. Malkhaz Tokhosashvili, a suspect of illegal weapons possession and involvement in the IS was arrested.

A woman from Chechnya, who wrote in WhatsApp about an attempted kidnapping of a child in a street, explained her actions by "emotions." The authorities treated a report on the kidnapping as rumors, while local residents took the authorities' statement with disbelief.

Yuri Khachaturov, who was detained in Armenia within the investigation into the case on the dispersal of the protesting opposition in Yerevan ten years ago, started working in Moscow.

During the week of July 30-August 5, 2018, 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.

Georgia's accession to NATO can provoke a "terrible conflict," the Russian Prime Minister said on the background of the Russian military exercises in Abkhazia and the NATO exercise in Georgia.

The Armenian armed forces 86 times violated the ceasefire in the Karabakh conflict zone during a day, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) reported.

Death of Russian journalists in the Central African Republic; appointment of the date for the presidential election in Georgia; fire in Sochi, which killed ten people; visit of tens of thousands of people to funeral of a Chechen man sentenced for the murder of Yuri Budanov; hurricane in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia; detention of the chief of the Dagestani Bureau for Medical Examination, ‑ see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 30-August 5, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On the day of the funeral of Yusup Temirkhanov, who was serving his sentence in a penal colony, the leader of Chechnya declared that the convict had not been involved in the murder of Yuri Budanov. Meanwhile, Ramzan Kadyrov admitted that the sentence made Yusup Temirkhanov a national hero, who "took revenge for the desecrated honour" and the murder of Elza Kungaeva, a Chechen young woman.

Yusup Temirkhanov was sentenced for the murder of Yuri Budanov and died in a penal colony. While he was alive, the authorities of Chechnya did not try to achieve justice in his case, suggested local residents after the Chechen leader's speech at the funeral ceremony.

Forensic medical examinations are to be conducted in the case on the deaths of journalists Orkhan Djemal, Alexander Rastorguev, and Kirill Radchenko in the Central African Republic (CAR). Investigators interrogated relatives, colleagues, and friends of the killed journalists.