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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.

The oppositional party headed by Nino Burjanadze, a former parliament's speaker, and named "Democratic Movement – United Georgia" will not take part in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Salimkhan Djamaldinov, the deputy head of the administration of Khasavyurt, whose son surrendered during a special operation, was dismissed from his post on the initiative of the head of Dagestan, the "Caucasian Knot" was informed at the department for information policy and press service of the president of Dagestan.

About 500 Chechens, residing in Syria, wish to return to their historic homeland to the Chechen Republic; at present, the problems of the issuance of long-term visas and residence permits for them are being solved. This was reported by the Department of External Relations of the Chechen leader and the government of Chechnya.

Today, the "Armavia" Airline carried out a special flight "Yerevan-Damascus-Yerevan" to transport children of Syrian Armenians to Armenia. This flight brought 120 children, who were met by Granush Akopyan, Minister of Diaspora of Armenia, Syrian Ambassador to Armenia, and by their relatives.

5 policemen and 2 persons, suspected of involvement in an illegal armed formation (IAF) killed in a shootout in the Botlikh District of Dagestan.

On August 5, the flight "Moscow-Makhachkala" of the "Utair" Airline was delayed because of an aircraft's failure. This was reported by a representative of the airline carrier. After passengers arranged a protest action, the Airline provided them with another aircraft on August 6.

The Armenian police received evidence that the fight at the "Harsnaqar" Restaurant in Yerevan, as a result of which military doctor Vage Avetyan perished, involved other participants, apart from 6 arrested persons. The journalists were informed about that by Arsen Aivazyan, the representative of the Police of Armenia.