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About 1000 soldiers and officers took part in exercises at a Russian military base in South Ossetia, reported the Ministry of Defence (MoD) after NATO had requested to withdraw the Russian troops from the above territory.

Members of the "Elk" bloc proposed holding the early election of the Yerevan Mayor on August 8, but the Council of Elders supported the proposal of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) by a majority vote.

The body of the perished climber was delivered by helicopter to Nalchik and handed over to the investigators; the remaining two unharmed group members will descended on foot by themselves.

Within the last 24 hours, Armenian militaries violated the ceasefire for 101 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

The believers of the village of Terechnoye, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, were massively put on the so-called "prophylactic registry". For this purpose, law enforcers blocked parishioners in the mosque after Friday namaz (prayer), local residents have reported.

Residents of the Ingush village of Dolakovo demand to liquidate the ditch dug in 1992 and restore the road that connects the border villages of Ingushetia with the federal highway. However, the head of the North-Ossetian village of Zilga and the deputy head of the Pravoberezhny District of North Ossetia insist on preserving the ditch.

The police have detained Farrukh Gasymov within the murder case of two policemen during the riots in the Azerbaijani city of Ganja.

The court in Yerevan has ruled to place Hayk Sargsyan, a nephew of Serzh Sargsyan, the third president of Armenia, on charges of an attempted murder.

The leaders of 29 countries-members of the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have confirmed their support for the territorial integrity of Georgia. They called on Russia to withdraw troops from the territory of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and reject the earlier recognition of their sovereignty.

In South Ossetia, the court fined a woman from Rustavi for violating the border, and she was deported to Georgia.

In the city of Ganja, one of the Shiite centres, social tension in the city resulted in the killing of policemen at a protest action. This is reported by experts. They have noted that in Azerbaijan, as a result of the authorities' actions against the secular opposition, religious radicals who raise social issues become more popular.

Oyub Titiev, the head of the "Memorial" office in Grozny, has filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg against violation of his right to freedom and political motives for criminal prosecution. That is reported by his advocate.

A resident of Chechnya, who addressed Ramzan Kadyrov in connection with the information about dangerous vegetables, grown by Chinese entrepreneurs in the republic, is registered at the psychiatrist's place. This was stated by relatives of the man on the air of the Chechen TV Channel. Messages about poor-quality vegetables were also disseminated by other WhatsApp users.

Malkhaz Kobauri, suspected of involvement in the murder of spouses and their child in the mountains of Georgia, has claimed that the people were killed by two people unknown to him.

A two-year-old child died after getting under the car, driven by 12-year-old schoolboy.

Rashad Beyukkishiev and Farrukh Gasymov have been put on the wanted list under the case of killing two policemen during the riots in the city of Ganja.

Raisat Omarova and Zukhra Gaziakhmatova, residents of Dagestan, have found the whereabouts of their grandsons, who remained in Syria after the death of their parents. For their active actions to evacuate the children from the territory of the "Islamic State" (IS) (banned in Russia by the court), the grandmothers may face criminal liability.

Law enforcers have saved the man, who poured gasoline over and set himself on fire at the residence of Nikol Pashinyan, the Prime Minister of Armenia.

In the opinion of Tigran Khzmalyan, a political analyst, after three months of Nikol Pashinyan's advent to power in Armenia, a gradual weakening of Russia's influence is noticeable. According to Khikmet Gadjizade, his colleague, Azerbaijan associates Pashinyan with possible progress in settling the Karabakh crisis.

During the riots in Ganja, two police officers were killed, 40 people were detained, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.