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On August 12, the Nalchik City Court began hearing the criminal case of journalist Igor Tsagoev, charged with an aggravated assault. The defendant refused to plead guilty.

At the process held at the Moscow City Court (MCC) on the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta", Judge Pavel Melekhin agreed to issue a compulsory delivery to the court of 12 prosecution witnesses, who do not reside at the place of registration and would not appear at the court to testify.

Today, at trial in the case of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", the Moscow City Court questioned Pavel Korsakov, an operating policeman, in the presence of the jury.

The Baku Court of Appeal has considered an appeal filed by Sardar Alibeili, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "P.S. Nota" and of the online edition with the same name, charged of disorderly conduct. The journalist challenged the selected pre-trial restriction measure the arrest for a period of two months.

The Embassy of the Russian Federation in Azerbaijan has confirmed the information about the arrest by law enforcement bodies of this country of a citizen of the Russian Federation Djavid Babaev.

This morning, about 70 students gathered at the building of the Armenian Government to demand to abolish the authorities' decision to increase tuition fees in universities. The protesters chanted "Freedom!" and "Prime Minister!" demanding to meet the Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisyan.

Today, the defence of the Mayor of Karachaevsk sent to the Supreme Court of Karachay-Cherkessia appeals against the decision of the Cherkessk City Court to arrest Soltan Semenov for 2 months and temporary suspend him from office.

Today, in Vladikavkaz, ambulance drivers and physicians made a decision to go on strike. They are dissatisfied with their low salaries and lack of ambulance cars. The drivers did not announce the specific date for the protest event. They have just noted that the strike will be started "soon".

The Pyatigorsk Prosecutor's Office took control of the case of threats against Mukhammad Khadji Rakhimov, Mufti of the Stavropol Territory.

Five years after start of August 2008 events in South Ossetia; Muslims celebrate 'Id al-Fitr; arrest of Karachaevsk Mayor; death of militant leader of Kabardino-Balkaria; oral hearing at trial on flood in Krymsk; explosion at the police building in Volgograd; a major road accident with passenger bus in the Stavropol Territory, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of August 5-11, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

About 40 persons attended a rally in support of Alexander Tolmachov, the editor-in-chief and publisher of the newspaper "I'm Authorized to State" that took place on Lenin Square of Rostov-on-Don on August 11.

This year, archaeologists plan to analyze and qualify the materials collected since 2002 during excavations in the Azokh Cave, located in the Hadrut District of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Applications for drugs to privileged patients were drawn up in the Volgograd Region based on available budget funds, rather than on the patients' actual needs, said Oksana Cheredinina, a senior assistant to the Public Prosecutor of the Volgograd Region.

The soldier Indjigulyan, who came to the territory controlled by the military forces of Azerbaijan, has been brought to Baku and handed over to the Ministry of Defence (MoD), Shakhin Sailov, the Secretary of the State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons, said on August 10.

The Chechen authorities allocate 800,000 roubles to each widow and family of the veterans of World War II, who live in Chechnya, for the improvement of their housing conditions. Starting from the beginning of the year, the housing certificates were issued to 14 families. This was reported by the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Development of Chechnya.

Experts believe that the events of August 2008 continue affecting many aspects of life in Southern Caucasus. Alexander Rusetsky, Director of the Caucasus Institute for Regional Security, believes that the conflict should be viewed in the context of geopolitical games played by Russia and NATO.

A staff member of the pre-trial prison No. 4 of Moscow has beaten Bashir Khamkhoev, a native of Ingushetia, charged in the case of the terror act committed at the "Domodedovo" Airport.

Saida Khaibulaeva, a resident of the village of Karlanyurt of the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, appealed to Ramazan Abdulatipov with a request to take control of the criminal investigation into the murder of her husband Radjab Magomedov.

On August 10, the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan has approved the candidacy of incumbent President Ilham Aliev for taking part in the presidential election.

Great Britain should not boycott the Olympic Games in Sochi because of the Russian law banning propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships, says David Cameron.