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At the 30th Olympic Games, the Armenian national team with one silver and two bronze medals occupies the 60th place at the informal medal standings. According to Sergey Mkrtchyan, a sports commentator, that place represents a progress, taking into account the fact that since 1996, Armenia won no silver medals.

Tonight as a result of a shower the seaport of Poti in the West of Georgia was flooded. The central streets got under water and the traffic was hampered. Today reconstructive works have been going on in Poti since morning. Power supply upset by the rain is reestablished, Mayor’s office of the town reported.

Mass actions in memory of the victims of Georgian-Abkhazian conflict that started 20 years ago are going on in Georgia and Abkhazia today. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Georgian-Abkhazian war members of the Unit of Abkhazian volunteers started from Kabardino-Balkaria for Sukhumi.

Since August, 10, the third International mime festival named after Leonid Engibarov has been going on in the Armenian health resort of Tsakhkadzor. The festival will last till August, 15. Theatre companies are playing right in the streets of the town and gathering crowds of spectators.

Organizers of a picket against abortions in Vladikavkaz intend to strive for adoption of a law prohibiting induced abortions not based on medical indications at the legislative level. They are currently training people who will deliver lectures on the subject to senior pupils. However, physicians point out that prohibition of induced abortions can promote increase of the number of illegal abortions which often cause death of a woman who decided to do so.

Deputy Prosecutor of the Stavropol Territory has confirmed the indictment on the criminal case against four former district militia inspectors of the OVD (Interior Division) of the Predgorny District of the Stavropol Territory, accused of abusing detainees.

Azerbaijan accused the Armed Forces of Armenia of the death of Azerbaijani soldier at the contact line of armed forces.

On August 12, the Tarumovka District Court of Dagestan pronounced pre-trial restriction in the form of keeping in custody to a 25-year old native of Ukraine without fixed abode, suspected of raping and murdering a nine-year female resident of the village of Koktyubei. On the previous day, local residents almost lynched the suspect, and the murder was prevented by the intervention of the investigators.

40 members of the Jewish community of the city of Volzhsky attended the meeting with participants of the Jewish ethnographic expedition, which on August 12 visited in the city of Volzhsky of the Volgograd Region. The representatives of the expedition, the sons of the Rabbis, also visited the elderly Jews, who earlier founded the city.

The Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of Chechnya refutes the information about the demolition of the former central mosque of Grozny, located in Tamanskaya Street, and notes that the reconstruction is underway there. Descendants of the founder of the mosque say that the mosque takes on a new look, while retaining its original architectural style.

Young representatives of the ethnic Diaspora in Turkey, who visited Adygea starting from July 30, intend to return to the republic and to enter the institutions of higher education. Such trips are important, since they acquaint young people with the opportunities, offered by the state, including opportunities for education. This was stated by Eyup Paloglo, a person, accompanying the group.

The Court of Appeal of the Odessa Region considers the complaint, filed by lawyers of Adam Osmaev, who is suspected of preparing the assassination of Vladimir Putin.

According to the information of the "Caucasian Knot", based on the own materials of the edition and information from other open sources, natives of Azerbaijan, who won ten medals of various denominations, became the most successful athletes at the London Olympic Games among athletes from the Caucasus. The second place went to natives of Georgia, who won seven medals. North Ossetia with five medals became the next region in the all-medal table of the Olympic Games.

Azerbaijan sent two batches of humanitarian aid to people injured by the severe earthquake in Iran which happened last Saturday, August, 11, in the province of Eastern Azerbaijan.

An international conference “Lessons of the Holocaust and modern Russia” opened on August, 12, in Southern research center of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Rostov-on-Don within the framework of memorial actions devoted to the 70th anniversary of the tragedy in Zmievskaya balka. The main topic of the scientific forum is the Holocaust in Northern Caucasus and fates of the Jewish intelligentsia during the years of the Second World War.

Within the framework of the last, sixteenth day of the Olympic Games in London, August, 12, athletes from the countries of Southern Caucasus and the South of Russia won three medals of different value. Wrestlers from Georgia and Azerbaijan won three “bronzes” and a girl native of Kalmykia brought the combined team of the Russian Federation a gold medal within the combined team of modern rhythmic gymnastics.

Mourning ceremonies devoted to the 70th anniversary of the tragedy in Zmievskaya balka where in August of 1942 the Nazis killed more than 20 thousand people passed off in Rostov-on-Don. About 500 persons took part in a procession called the “March of the living”.

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.