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According to the official information, during the first seven months of the current year, 3000 Syrian citizens of Armenian nationality received visas to enter Armenia. Some representatives of the Syrian community have highly appreciated the efforts of the Armenian government; however, they consider the simplification of the procedures for entry into the country to be rather belated.

Valentin Christov (56 kg weight), representative of Azerbaijan at the competitions in weightlifting, successfully made his début at the Olympics in London winning a silver medal.

A group of physicians representing medical centers of Penal Service and Center of forensic medical examination examined Ilham Amirsalanov, activist of “Kura” staff, in the investigative isolation ward of Baku. The physicians confirmed wounding of tympanic membrane.

Participation of athletes from the Caucasus in the London Olympics; outbreak of ASF and sending the case on Kuschevskaya massacre to the court in the Krasnodar Territory; successful start of "Anji" in UEFA Europa League tournament and a special operation in Makhachkala with a self-explosion; consideration of Mirzaev's case on the merits and sending the case on terror act at Moscow Domodedovo Airport to the court; skirmishes in the Karabakh conflict zone and capture of Azerbaijani soldier by Armenia, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of July 23-29, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On Sunday, July, 29, tenants of house No 66, Gagarin street of Sochi, came out in protest to a project site of a relief road in Kurortny prospect declaring that they would disallow construction of a gas pipe line in their surrounding grounds. The builders, in their turn, said that they were carrying out their management’s order.

Arsen Galstyan, a judo wrestler from the Republic of Adygea, was the first of the Russian national team to win a medal at the 30th Olympic Games in London – a Gold Medal in judo.

Today, a charity rally-concert under the motto "Hot July. Krymsk, We Are with You!" in support of the residents affected by the flood in the city of Krymsk, Krasnodar Territory, took place in Moscow.

In January-July this year, the Armenian authorities issued 3000 visas to citizens of Syria, said Tigran Balayan, the press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Armenia.

Specialists of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Resorts of Northern Caucasus" have presented a project of tourist cluster and described a ski resort and preferences for local residents and prospects for development of mountain areas to residents of the rural communities of Bezengi, Cherek District, and Bulungu, Chegem District.

The common practice to reject registration of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Azerbaijan is politically motivated. This was announced at the presentation of an expert research on registration of NGOs in Azerbaijan, performed by the public association named "Learning Democracy".

At night on July 28, in the Ingush village of Psedakh, the head of the temporary detention facility (known as IVS) of the city of Malgobek and his son were shot dead by unidentified persons.

On July 27, four residents of Krymsk were delivered to Moscow for treatment because of exacerbation of their neurological and cardiac diseases after the flood in the Krasnodar Territory. Earlier, two women from Krymsk were also accepted by one of Moscow hospitals.

On July 26, at 6:00 a.m., in the north-eastern section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, Firuz Farazov, born in 1992, an Azerbaijani soldier crossed the border and surrendered to the Armenian party, said the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia. The Azerbaijani party has confirmed the capture of the soldier.

Today, at the trial held in Ingushetia on the case of torture at the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs, the court granted several motions of the parties, followed by the debates.

The preliminary investigation into the explosion of balloons in the Republic Square in Yerevan on May 4 is over. The case was transferred to the court for trial, the spokesman of the Police of Armenia said.

On July 26, Nariman Orudjev, the vice-consul of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Tabriz, met Farid Gusein and Shakhriyar Gadjizade, young poets and Azerbaijani citizens, arrested in Iran. This was the first meeting of the Azerbaijani consulate with the young writers from the time of their arrest – May 2 this year.

Alaudin Almurziev, a native of Ingushetia, who is serving his sentence in the Kamchatka Region, has gone on his third hunger strike demanding to stop the lawlessness, perpetrated by the colony staff, his mother Raishat Kokurkhoeva told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The amendments to the Family Code proposed by the government of Armenia, according to which the official marriage in the country is allowed after 19 years of age regardless of gender, were negatively met by the Azidi community in Armenia.

In the course of a special operation undertaken in the evening on July 26 in the village of Alburikent near Makhachkala, one of the women – Saidat Yusupova – blew herself up, the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) reports.

The case of Champion in Mixed Martial Arts Rasul Mirzaev after whose blow a nineteen-years-old Muscovite Ivan Agafonov perished is under consideration in Zamoskvotetsky court of Moscow today. The defendant’s girl-friend Alla Kosogorova who was present at the scene of the conflict in “Garage” club was interrogated in court. Physicians of the hospital where Agafonov was taken also evidenced in court.