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Sochi residents Annik Kesyan and Marina Djandjgava, sentenced for sending SMS-messages to Georgia and pardoned by the Russian President, have decided to achieve the cancellation of the verdicts. This was stated by Annik Kesyan.

A 13-year-old resident of an Azerbaijani village, who was wounded on August 7 during a shelling on the contact line, underwent surgery.

The Soviet District Court of Makhachkala has recognized as illegal the prohibition to carry mobile phones and other video shooting devices into buildings of police stations.

In Yerevan, a man injured in a mine explosion has a positive dynamics, but still stays in severe condition. This was reported by Suren Makaryan, the chief of the resuscitation ward of the Armenian Medical Centre.

In the Shelkovskaya District of Chechnya, while attempting to take off, a light-motor aircraft crashed into a parked car. The pilot was hospitalized in a state of moderate gravity.

In Tbilisi, the leaders of the opposition "United National Movement" (UNM) and "European Georgia" Parties have laid wreaths to the graves of Georgian soldiers and officers killed in combat actions of August 2008. In the city of Tskhinvali, flowers were laid to the monument "Symbol of Sorrow".

A spring, which provoked a conflict between villagers of Chuni and Tsukhta in the Levashi District of Dagestan, is located in the territory of the Chuni village, and therefore, it should be used for the needs of its residents. This opinion was voiced by Talkhat Khaibulaev, the head of the Chuni village. Abdulkhalik Abdulkhalikov, the head of the Tsukhta village.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow has dismissed the claim field by the Ingush human rights organization "Mashr" against the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ). The rights defenders have failed to challenge the MoJ's decision made in 2015 to include the NGO to the register of foreign agents.

Family members of Ramazan Kamilbegov, a resident of the village of Gimry killed in 2015, have complained about an unreasonable detention of his brother and sister. The family members are afraid of fabrication of criminal cases against the detainees.

Within the resettlement programme from dilapidated and emergency houses, Derbent is building 15 new houses instead of the ones demolished earlier. The construction works have been stopped at all sites, the residents of the city who wait for moving into new houses built at their old addresses have reported today.

Marina Kaluzhskaya, a member of the Public Observation Commission (POC) of the Krasnodar Territory, has told the "Caucasian Knot" that Darya Polyudova, a Krasnodar activist, has stopped her hunger strike.

Today, the District Court of the Polish city of Białystok has sentenced four Chechens who were accused of raising money for militants.

The Polish Prosecutor's Office, Border Guard Service and Police are preparing a response to the request of the Georgian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) regarding the whereabouts of Mikhail Saakashvili in the Polish territory, said Lukas Lapinsky, the press secretary of the District Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw.

In Azerbaijan, the 23-year-old Nail Allakhverdiev, a participant of the road accident, which resulted in the death of two persons, has been arrested. He is a grandson of Ali Gasanov, the country’s Vice-Premier. According to a source from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the accident was caused by street races on expensive foreign-made cars.

Costs for the repeated Hajj have increased for pilgrims significantly after Saudi Arabia imposed a fee in the amount of 540 US dollars. In Chechnya, many believers doubt that the trip will be affordable for them.

Relatives openly supported two persons detained shortly after an attack on Grozny in December 2016. The case considered by the Staropromyslovsky District Court of the capital of Chechnya, has pointed to the change in the traditional mechanism of public condemnation, the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" reports today.

During the week of July 31-August 6, 2017, no one was registered as killed or wounded in 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.

Three men detained in the case on the kidnapping of Dagestani Minister Ibragim Kazibekov appeared to be relatives of Police Colonel Magomed Omarov, suspected of organizing the crime, the "Novoe Delo" reports. Meanwhile, the authorities denied the Magomed Omarov's blood relationship with Dagestani leader Ramazan Abdulatipov.

Explosions of shells at an ammunition depot in Abkhazia, to which Russian tourists fell victim; determination of main participants in the election of deputies to the Legislative Assemblies for the Krasnodar Territory and North Ossetia; visit to Georgia by US Vice President Mike Pence; appointment of a man from Ramazan Abdulatipov's team the acting Mayor of the Dagestani city of Buynaksk, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 31-August 6, 2017, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

In Yerevan, a court has continued a trial in the case against Zhirair Sefilyan. A court hearing has been held in the absence of six out of seven defendants, including Zhirair Sefilyan himself. In the courtroom, there was only one defendant who testified against the oppositionist and his defence, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.