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The authorities of South Ossetia gave local residents three months for the voluntary surrender of illegally held weapons or its registration. After November 15, law enforcers will carry out raids to seize weapons and bring owners of weapons to criminal liability. This was reported by a spokesman of the South-Ossetian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

The Dagestani Ministry of Public Health has updated the dead list after the explosion in the Makhachkala cafe "Laili". According to the Ministry of Public Health, eight victims died in hospitals.

In North and South Ossetia, people held actions to pay tribute to the memory of the victims killed in the course of the military conflict in August 2008. Residents of Vladikavkaz lit candles in memory near the Saint George Cathedral. In Tskhinvali, the events were attended by relatives of the killed Russian soldiers.

Suleiman Aidamirov, a resident of Chechnya, accused of illegal possession of ammunition and explosive devices and of financing terrorism, was sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment by the North-Caucasian District Military Court (NCDMC).

Georgian villagers, who fled from the conflict in August 2008, still cannot return to their houses. Meanwhile, not all of them can find jobs at the place of their current residence. The above was told by them to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent at the anniversary of the beginning of the 2008 war.

During their march, supporters of the "Sasna Tsrer" group were accompanied by several police cars.

The investigators, who held the inquiry into the death of Timur Kuashev, failed to establish who had called him before the murder, said the father of the journalist. The prosecutor's office returned the materials of the case to investigators; and the family intends to appeal against the investigator's decision.

The power of the improvised explosive devices (IEDs), neutralized by power agents in the village of Aimaki, was about 10 kilos of TNT (trotyl) equivalent, said regional law enforcement sources.

Special services have not allowed the Ingush Imam Khamzat Chumakov to go for treatment to Georgia under the pretext that he and his wife are on the so-called "prophylactic list". Magomed Mutsolgov, a rights defender, has called on Russian President to stop the practice of unreasonable putting people on such lists.

Ashot Karapetyan has been dismissed from the post of the head of the Yerevan police after a service investigation in connection with dispersal of protests.

The Volgograd Regional Central Election Commission (CEC) has completed checking documents of two self-nominated candidates for the Russian State Duma – Evgeny Ischenko and Yuri Kochetov. The CEC has rejected 22% of signatures in support of Ischenko, and 100% of signatures in support of Kochetov.

Journalist Khadija Ismayilova disagrees with the decision of the Baku court to reduce the term of her conditional punishment. She intends to seek to stop her criminal prosecution under the article of illegal entrepreneurship.

Nine victims of the capture of the building of the patrol-and-post (PPS) police regiment in Yerevan continue taking their treatment in hospitals. The condition of one of them – the policeman Gagik Mkrtchyan – is assessed as extremely grave, said the spokesman for the Ministry of Public Health (MPH) of Armenia.

During the week from August 1 to August 8, 2016, in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, four persons were wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

In the dwelling settlement of Sayasan, Nozhai-Yurt District of Chechnya, the have started restoring transport routes and bridges, damaged by landslides, said the republic's Ministry of Motor Roads (MMR).

The first gold medal at the Olympic Games, won for Russia by a native of Kabardino-Balkaria; flooding in Sukhumi caused by heavy rain; motion for Dmitry Medvedev's resignation after his response to a question of a Dagestani teacher concerning teachers' salaries; earthquake in Azerbaijan which damaged old buildings; gas explosion in a banquet hall in Makhachkala, which injured 27 people, see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 1-7, 2016, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Holi Festival of Colours has been cancelled at the "Cinema Hall" movie theatre after protests of residents of Dagestan.

The unsettled land relations in the territory of the military settlement "Vesna" (Spring) located in Vladikavkaz (North Ossetia) hinders the development of the micro-district, local residents assert. Officials are seeking a transfer of federal lands into municipal ownership.

At the picket in Sochi, townspeople told that cases of non-fulfilment of court judgements have become widespread; while the violations established by courts in the work of court marshals are not eliminated.

On August 5, the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) made a statement, in which it gave an assessment of the upcoming referendum on constitutional amendments to be held on September 26.