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During the last 24 hours, the Armenian Armed Forces violated the ceasefire regime for 81 times by using large-calibre machine guns, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

On August 2, Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili signed a decree on pardon, according to which 40 people would leave prisons, and for other 43 prisoners, their sentences would be shortened.

A district police inspector of the Department for Cherkessk of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) is suspected of beating a detainee to obtain a confession and planting a material evidence on him, investigators reported.

The Penitentiary Service has dismissed a request of blogger Mekhman Guseinov's to provide a meeting with his seriously ill mother. Officials motivated their refusal by the fact that the sentenced blogger did not participate in "correctional activities" in the penal colony. Activists consider the decision of the Penitentiary Service to be illegal and inhumane.

Orkhan Djemal and his colleagues failed to observe security requirements by leaving at night for the area controlled by rebels; and they resisted the attackers, said the Media Minister of the Central African Republic (CAR). There are no signs of torture on journalists' bodies, said the spokesperson of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).

On August 2, the Defence Minister of Abkhazia presented Major-General Vasily Lunyov as a candidate for the post of the Commander of the General Staff to Raul Khajimba, the President of Abkhazia, who expressed hope that the General would quickly join the staff of the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD).

About 1500 people signed an appeal to Senator Suleiman Kerimov and businessman Alisher Usmanov with a request to sponsor the Makhachkala "Anji" FC, which found itself in a difficult situation because of its large debts. The football fans wrote a separate open letter addressed to Vladimir Vasiliev, the acting leader of Dagestan.

Nino Gvenetadze has resigned because of her health problems, the press service for the Supreme Court (SC) of Georgia reports today.

CSTO Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov, charged in the case on the dispersal of protests in Yerevan, may leave Armenia, the spokesperson for the investigating authorities has reported today. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) reproached the Armenian authorities for persecuting political opponents.

On August 1, on the Repatriate's Day, a charity event was organized in Nalchik. The raised funds will be used to support families of needy repatriates.

On August 1, the Tver Court of Moscow extended the arrests of Dagestani entrepreneurs Ziyavudin and Magomed Magomedov. On the same day, the Moscow City Court found lawful the arrests of all assets in the Magomedov brothers' case.

On August 1-2, the Armenian armed forces 73 times violated the ceasefire regime in the border areas and in the Karabakh conflict zone, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) reports today.

Two men were sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony for organizing illegal spearfishing competitions, which resulted in the death of a man, the Prosecutor's Office reported.

In Shushi, 61 soldiers of the Defence Army of Nagorno-Karabakh were baptized at the Holy Saviour Cathedral.

Russian journalist Orkhan Djemal and his two colleagues were captured in the Central African Republic (CAR) by Islamic rebels and killed after interrogation, reported sources in the CAR. The funeral of Orkhan Djemal will be held in Moscow in accordance with the Muslim customs, journalist Maxim Shevchenko reported.

41 MPs signed a petition to change the pre-trial restriction measure to Robert Kocharyan, the second president of Armenia, arrested in the case of overthrowing the constitutional order. The court can take into account the MPs' guarantee, advocates believe.

All the nine employees of the Kurchaloi ROVD (District Interior Division), questioned today at the court session that considers the case of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", said that they had not detained him and had not examined his car.

The case of Vladislav Khokhlachov, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), accused of preparing an explosion of buildings of power agencies in Nalchik in 2012, has been sent to the court.

Today, the board of the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has dismissed the complaint filed by the defence of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Grozny, about the Court's refusal to transfer the trial to another region. The Court has also refused the advocates in viewing the video of the Chechen leader's speeches criticizing Oyub Titiev and judges.

In 1998, repatriation of Kosovo Adygs favourably affected the image of Russia among members of Circassian Diaspora. However, in the past ten years, the problem concerning the return of Circassians to their homeland has become intractable and the same repatriation from Syria is no longer possible, said participants of the operation for the resettlement of families from Kosovo.