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Successful Caucasian athletes at London Olympics; fourth anniversary of August events in South Ossetia; suicide bombing in Chechnya; start of trial in Iran of Azerbaijani poets; appointment of city manager in Stavropol; another victory of "Anji" FC Europa League; end of trial on resonant criminal case against the world champion in mixed martial arts Rasul Mirzaev, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of August 6-12, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

During the week of August 4-11, at the Karabakh-Azerbaijan contact line, the latter broke the ceasefire for more than 200 times. The armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh refrained to respond, said the spokesman of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defence Army (NKDA).

A solidarity action with the members of the punk group "Pussy Riot" is planned by residents of Rostov-on-Don for August 17, the day when the verdict is expected in the case of the three group members who organized a "punk prayer" at the Christ the Saviour Cathedral. The Rostov Mayoralty has been notified about this intention.

At 4:15 p.m. local time, residents of Yerevan felt strong underground shocks, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports. At the moment, there is no information about the victims.

On August 10, the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, chaired by Judge Mail Bayramov, finalized the trial on the case of Abgyul Suleymanov, the head of the religious community "Jafari Heyat" (Jafari Members). The court sentenced him to 11 years in prison.

Today, the Tbilisi City Court today has found the billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, the leader of the oppositional coalition "Georgian Dream", to be an administrative offender for illegal donations and fined him by 20,243,827 laris (12 million US dollars).

At night on August 10, in Sochi, in Titov Street, Alexei Velkov, a local resident, committed suicide. The man would not obey to authorities' decision to move from his permanent residence to the village of Vesyoloe-Psou (near Adler), his relatives said.

Today at night, the Azerbaijani boxer Magomedrasul Medzhidov has lost – in the weight category of over 91 kg – his semi-final fight at the Olympic Games in London to Italian Roberto Cammarelle and lost a chance to compete for the gold medal. Medzhidov received a bronze medal.

A native of Abkhazia Denis Tsargush, a member of the Russian team at the Olympic Games in London, has won a bronze medal in freestyle wrestling in the weight category of up to 74 kg.

At night on August 10, as a result of a heavy rain that struck the city of Kutaisi (Imereti Region, Western Georgia) several streets were flooded. There is no data about any casualties and victims.

Andrei Mareev, 39, who had come from St Petersburg to help local residents affected by the catastrophic flood, has died in the volunteers' camp set up in the settlement of Nizhnee Bakanskoye, Krasnodar Territory.

The wrestler Dzhamal Otarsultanov, who is representing the Chechen Republic at the Olympic Games in London, has won the freestyle wrestling competition in the weight category of up to 55 kg.

Relatives of the three residents of Makhachkala, who disappeared on June 28 in Astrakhan, say that after the Ramadan they will start their protest actions "because of authorities' idleness." The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from Shamkhal Bagaudinov, the uncle of Magomed Bagaudinov, one of the missing persons.

The "White Stream" is a motor rally, whose participants plan to visit fifteen Russian cities. Today, they arrived in Yaroslavl and held an information picket there. The "White Stream" will have its finish on August 19 in Astrakhan and run via Kostroma, Nizhny Novgorod, Cheboksary, Kazan, Togliatti, Samara, Saratov, Volgograd, Kamyshin and Akhtubinsk.

Today, Teymur Mammadov, an Azerbaijani boxer in the weight category of up to 91 kg, lost the Olympic semi-final in London to the Italian Clemente Russo. However, he received a bronze medal of the Olympics.

Today, David Ayrapetyan, a boxer from the delegation of the Stavropol Territory at the Olympic Games in London, has added his bronze medal to the "treasury" of the Russian team.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has accepted a complaint lodged by the defence of Igor Bereziuk, a convict for the unrests in Manege Square, said his lawyer Dmitry Agranovskiy.

Today, at 9:00 a.m., Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), finished receiving citizens in Sochi. For 22 hours, Mr Bastrykin received 70 persons from the Krasnodar and Krasnoyarsk Territories, and Chelyabinsk and Moscow Regions.

Bakhruz Seidullah oglu Ragimov, a serviceman of the National Army of Azerbaijan, was killed by his colleague's careless shot.

So far, the search for members of the armed underground conducted in the mountainous Vedeno District of Chechnya for the third day already has yielded no results. Power agents do not exclude that militants could escape from the blockaded area.