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In the Georgian capital, five people involved in the riots in Tbilisi on May 26, were sentenced, the Chief Prosecutor's Office of Georgia reports.

Today, during the third round of negotiation between the delegations from the ruling coalition and oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC), the parties came to an agreement to have more frequent meetings. Instead of meeting once a week they will meet twice.

The experts from the Scientific and Research Institute of Archaeology of the Dagestani Scientific Centre (DSC) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), who organized an expedition to the Derbent District of Dagestan, report about numerous unique findings in the tombs of Palasasyrt.

The intervention of the public and the media played a huge role in the release of the Georgian journalists, who were arrested on charges of espionage for Russia, believe the commentators in Georgia.

In Azerbaijan, human rights organizations conduct a campaign to bring attention of the world public to human rights violations in the country. This was reported by Leila Yunus, the director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy.

On August 3 a meeting of the City Commission on adaptation to civilian life the citizens, who decided to stop their terror and extremist activities, was held in the administration of the city of Derbent. The commission considered the applications of two people.

On August 3, several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) of Georgia appealed to the Department of Punishment Executives, Probation and Legal Aid to immediately provide detention facilities with a ventilation system, creating adequate conditions for prisoners serving their terms.

In the Azerbaijani capital, the total number of victims of heat stroke comprised 107 people, including 39 people who were hospitalized. Most of the victims suffered in the last three days of July – 59 people.

Starting August 1, Muslims began a month of strict fasting, called Ramadan. This is the ninth month of the Muslim lunar calendar, when Muslims should to keep fasting starting from morning namaz (prayer) at dawn till the time of the evening namaz after sunset.

In Ingushetia, the residents of the rural dwelling settlement of Plievo urged the republic's authorities to respect their right to elect a head of the municipality.

The Federal Court of Lenin District of the city of Makhachkala started hearings on the appeal of Ziyavdin Dapaev, a follower of Turkish theologian Said Nursi. Ziyavdin Dapaev had been sentenced to two years of conditional imprisonment on charges of organizing an extremist organization "Nurdzhular".

The Ministry of Finance (MF) of the Russian Federation has refused to agree on the state programme "Development of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) for the period up to 2025" in the amount of 3.9 billion roubles, as the Ministry of Regional Development proposed.

Today, the Control and Disciplinary Committee (CDC) of the Russian Football Union (RFU) has fined the football club (FC) "Anji" by 600 thousand roubles for failing to ensure order during the match with the FC "Zenit". In case of repeated violations the football club from the city of Makhachkala will have to play two matches on a neutral field, the RFU's official website reports.

On August 3 the Constitutional Court of Georgia has registered the lawsuit on declaring unconstitutional Article 314 of the Criminal Code of Georgia ("espionage"). According to the authors of the lawsuit, the unclear expressions in the above article gave the Georgian authorities a right to arrest the photographers accused of espionage for Russia.

The Moscow City Court has formed the jury for the case on the murder of Yegor Sviridov, a fan of the football club "Spartak", who was killed last December in Moscow. According to the press service of the court, the jury consists of 12 main jurors and eight substitute jurors.

On August 2 the internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Abkhazia and South Ossetia obtained a meeting at the Tbilisi Office of the United Nations. Now they hope that the UN will listen to their demands to stop their eviction from the temporary accommodation centres (TACs) in Tbilisi. According to experts, the demand to draw the attention of the Georgian UN office to the refugees' problem is well-timed.

Today in the Nagorno-Karabakh, the circuit court of general jurisdiction of Syunik Region of Armenia has sentenced Manvel Azroyan to life imprisonment, finding him guilty of the murder of his four colleagues.

At present, four victims of the mass brawl, which occurred between airborne soldiers and natives of the Caucasus on August 2, remain at the medical institutions of Astrakhan. This was reported by Oleg Svirin, Acting Chief of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in the Astrakhan Region, at the special briefing on the incident.

People’s Defender Georgi Tugushi in Georgia submitted his recommendations to Kobe Subeliani, Minister of Affairs of persons replaced from occupied territories, refugees and settlement, demanding to provide the refugees with proper dwelling conditions and inspect the objects which must be transferred to their possession.

Reconstruction works in the central street of Chechen capital, Ahmat Kadyrov avenue, are going much behind of schedule. The authorities intend to speed up the process by means of organizing large-scale subbotniks (days of unpaid work on the weekend).