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The Council of Imams of Khasavyurt has called for stopping killings in Dagestan, which are committed with religious motives, and claimed that Islam treats a killing of an innocent soul as the second major sin.

Today, the Kotovo District Court of the Volgograd Region sentenced Oksana Levchenko, the family governess, to 4 years of imprisonment in a common security penal colony for the fact that she beat a6-year-old child, who took a candy without asking permit. This was reported by Natalia Kunitskaya, Spokesperson of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

For the week from July 30 to August 5, 2012, at least 18 persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, 11 persons perished and 7 more were wounded. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot" based on own materials of the edition and information from other open sources.

Oleg Shein, ex-candidate for the position of Mayor of Astrakhan, filed appeals against decisions of the Courts of the Kirov, Lenin, Soviet, and Trusovsky District of the city of Astrakhan on dismissal the claim for cancellation of the election, held on March 4.

One of the men, who surrendered during the special operation in Khasavyurt, was put on the wanted list on suspicion of robbery, and another one was put on the list of missing persons. The third surrendered man, the owner of the blocked house and the son of the deputy head of Khasavyurt, is, according to power agents, an accomplice of the militants, not put on the wanted list. The negotiations with the suspected militants involved their relatives.

A Dagestani blogger has discovered at the website of the public procurement the order of the housing and communal services of Makhachkala, the works on which are already underway, although the auction had been appointed only on August 13. This information caused a great response of the blogosphere.

The "Armavia" Airline plans to carry out special flights to Syria to transport children of Syrian Armenians to Armenia. In total, it is planned to bring 400 children. This was reported by a representative of the Ministry of Diaspora.

On August 8, more than 300 persons gathered in Vladikavkaz in front of the temple of Saint George to attend the action "Candle of Memory", dedicated to the fourth anniversary of the conflict in South Ossetia.

Maria Stadnik, an Azerbaijani athlete, won the silver medal at London Olympic Games in women's wrestling in the weight category of 48 kg.

Azerbaijan maintains an atmosphere of impunity for crimes, committed against journalists; strict state control over the sphere of media is obvious; there are facts of pressure on those persons, who criticize the authorities, and the facts of restriction of freedom of expression on the Internet. These conclusions were made by representatives of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) in the semi-annual report "Critical Voices of Azerbaijan under threat".

Tenants of the dormitory in Grozny, located in No. 4 in Vyborgskaya Street of the Zavodskoi District, have reported on the decision of the territorial administration of the "Rosimuschestvo" (the Federal Agency for State Property Management) in Chechnya, in accordance with which about 100 families are to leave the dormitory till September 1. According to the tenants, they have nowhere to go.

Today, at about 5:30 p.m., unidentified persons seized and took away Vladimir Zhamborov, the head of the administration of the leader of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), a figurant of the case on embezzling state property, from the Moscow medical centre named after Bakulev. This was stated by relatives.

Four years after the beginning of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict, refugees from South Ossetia, who at present live in the Georgian village of Tserovani, complain about unemployment, lack of benefits and normal living conditions.

Today, the Tver Court of Moscow pronounced sentences of terms, ranging from conditional sentence to 3 years of imprisonment, to 4 persons, found guilty on case on riots in Manege Square, which occurred in December 2010 during the rally in memory of Yegor Sviridov, a fan of the "Spartak" FC, killed in a fight.

Today, the Zamoskvorechye District Court of Moscow started pleadings in the case against athlete Rasul Mirzaev, after whose punch Ivan Agafonov, a Moscow student, died. Prosecutor asks the Court to reclassify the offence of the defendant for Article 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "causing death by negligence".

On August 7, in Karabulak, the territory of the temporary accommodation centre (TAC) "Promzhilbaza" hosted "a roundtable" on problems of refugees. The discussion was attended by human rights defenders, representatives of public organizations and refugees themselves, who stated that after the Muslim fasting they would go on a hunger strike to demand solutions to their problems.

Today marks exactly four years from the date, on which hostilities broke out in South Ossetia, turning into the Georgian-Russian military conflict. Russia and Georgia met the anniversary of those events with mutual accusations of unleashing the military conflict.

Three suspected militants, blocked in a private house in Dagestani Khasavyurt, surrendered as a result of negotiations with power agents. One more suspected militant, hidden in the house, renders armed resistance. This was reported by a source in law enforcement agencies of the city.

On August 6, the "Zvartnots" Airport welcomed more passengers from Syria; 101 persons arrived from Aleppo to Yerevan on that day. Every time, Syrian Armenians are welcomed by representatives of the Ministry of Diaspora; new comers are given leaflets with the information needed to stay in Armenia. This was reported by Atom Mkhitaryan, Chief of the Department for Pan-Armenian programmes of the Ministry of Diaspora.

At present, new buildings of the Republic's Clinical Hospital (RCH) in Grozny, opened on October 5, 2011, do not work. The RCH will be able to take the first patients only in early 2013. This information was confirmed by a source of the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent in the Ministry of Health of Chechnya.