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The information about the absence of water in the upper part of Derbent arrived on August 9 at 4:40 p.m. at the SMS-service of the "Caucasian Knot". "At the air temperature of plus 40 degrees, the upper part of Derbent is without water for a week, although Gamdullaev, the director of the Municipal Unitary Enterprise (MUE) 'Vodokanal' has reported to the President's envoy about the round-the-clock water supply to this part of the city," wrote the author of the message.

Today, at 5:30 a.m. Moscow time, power agents have put the Untsukul District under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime with the aim to search for militants. In this context, they have temporarily closed the Gimry Tunnel. Locals have reported accumulation of large amounts of military equipment near the village of Gimry.

Today, the North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has held the oral hearing on the case of the ex-Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov. The state prosecutor demanded to sentence Amirov, by combination of his crimes, to life imprisonment, the "Chernovik" reports.

Commemorative events in Georgia and South Ossetia on the seventh anniversary of the events of August 2008; emergency power outages in Southern Russia with the onset of hot weather; eight killed suspected militants within a week in KBR; nomination of candidates for the head of North Ossetia; end of judicial inquiry in case of Yunus spouses in Azerbaijan; registration of candidates for the heads of Rostov Region and Krasnodar Territory, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 3-9, 2015, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The advocate Mark Feigin, who is representing at the Donetsk City Court of the Rostov Region the interests of the Ukrainian servicewoman Nadezhda Savchenko, has posted on his website the conclusion of the examination of the video, which, in his opinion, confirms her innocence.

Andrei Vinogradov, the head of the Kizlyar District of Dagestan, has been charged with the financing of terrorism, aiding in an attempted murder of a policeman and an attempted murder of an official of the city administration, the "Kommersant" reports.

18 participants of the motor rally Moscow-Armenia-Nagorno-Karabakh, held within the action "We are for peace!", arrived in Stepanakert. On the road, they are filming materials for a documentary about Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.

Magomed Gaikuev, a resident of the village of Andi, whose whereabouts was not known since August 2, has returned home this morning. According to his relative, Gaikuev told about his detention by power agents and torture with electric current.

During the week from August 3 to August 9, 2015, at least 13 people fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, including 11 killed and two wounded persons. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The death of the journalist Rasim Aliyev was a result of impunity for crimes against independent media in Azerbaijan, said his colleagues and oppositional politicians.

On August 8, members of the Georgian Diaspora from different regions of Austria held a rally "Stop occupation!" in front of the OSCE building in Vienna. The action lasted for two hours.

Georgy Barateli, 24, a Georgian volunteer, was lost in Eastern Ukraine, in the area of the anti-terrorist operation.

Asker Teminov and Murzabek Mullaev were detained in the village of Kumli, Nogai District of Dagestan, in the evening on August 8, local residents have reported. The local ROVD (District Interior Division) has confirmed the detention.

On July 27, Moscow gave a start of the Fourth Jewish Ethnographic Expedition to regions of Southern Russia. Five mobile synagogues took off along the route: Central Russia, Volga region, Southern Russia, the Urals and the Crimea.

Doctors could not save the Azerbaijani freelance journalist Rasim Aliyev, who was hospitalized after being beaten up. This morning, he died in the Clinical Centre of Baku.

Boris Stikhin, an activist of the International Union of Anarchists, has been detained during an anti-war solo picket in Heroes Alley in Volgograd.

Residents of Georgia, its President and the Prime Minister paid tribute to those killed during the conflict in August 2008, including the perished servicemen. The country needs to restore its territorial integrity through negotiations, said the Georgian leadership.

Today, during a shootout in 2nd Taman Division Street in Nalchik, power agents killed Inoyat Tabukhov, suspected of the murders of Rector Boris Zherukov, TV journalist Kazbek Gekkiev and investigator Alim Vorokov, committed in 2012.

The mourning rally held in central Tskhinvali brought together some 700 people. As declared by President of South Ossetia, in 2016 the republic will start erecting a memorial complex.

On August 7, Arbi Dikaev was sentenced by the Grozny District Court of Chechnya, a source from the Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. The young man was accused of preparing to participate in an armed formation in the territory of Syria.