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On August 11, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia expressed protest against deployment by Russia of an S-300 air defence complex in the territory of Abkhazia and urged the international community to take resolute steps to stop "militarization of occupied territories of Georgia by the Russian Federation."

President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev has criticized Vice-Premier Alexander Khloponin, his Plenipotentiary in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), for absence of investments into Dagestan.

On August 10, the criminal case initiated against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", on slandering President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, was sent from the district court to the magistrate one, said the spokesman of the Khamovniki Court of Moscow.

Prices for some bread sorts have almost doubled in Volgograd, while other bakery products are now more expensive by 20-30 percent. The city mayor has addressed the governor of the region asking him to promptly remedy the situation.

In the Volgograd Region, 25 persons are sick with the West Nile Encephalitis (WNE). Most of them are residents of Volgograd and Volzhski. The probability of an outbreak grows because of abnormally hot weather.

Five persons from among the Balkars who continue their hunger-strike in Moscow were taken to hospital, but the rest of the group continues the hunger-strike in the Manezh Square. The protest action lasts for 36 days already, Muradin Rakhaev, leader of the group, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

General-Colonel Alexander Zelin, Commander-in-Chief of Russia's Air Forces, has reported deployment of S-300 air defence systems in the territory of Abkhazia; the latter refutes the information.

As reported by the Department of "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) for the Rostov Region, seven laboratory confirmed cases of West Nile Encephalitis (WNE) have been registered in Rostov-on-Don.

On August 10, in front of the Tbilisi Mayoralty street traders held a protest action against liquidation of street trade.

Today in the morning, the Tbilisi police violently ousted refugees from Abkhazia and South Ossetia out of the former building of the Headquarters of Russian Troops in Georgia; the refugees moved in there after the war of August 2008. Several hundreds of refugees tried to resist but failed; several persons were wounded.

In the Krasnodar Territory, the Federal Highway "Don", running to the Black Sea shore, is paralysed by huge traffic jams. Within one day the road passes some 80-100 thousand cars, more than six-fold throughput of this highway.

On August 8 in Ingushetia, in Surkhakhi village, employees of unidentified power agencies beat and kidnapped Magomed Alikhanovich Mutsolgov, 15. His father was not told where the boy was taken.

On August 10, the humanitarian truck train from Ingushetia with 78 tons of mineral water for residents-fire victims arrived in Nizhniy Novgorod.

Within the project "Promotion of voluntary activities towards solution of social problems", a number of Azerbaijan districts are holding the action "Be a volunteer too!"

President of the UEFA Michel Platini, who visited the capital of Georgia, gave particular recommendations to the government, so that Tbilisi could host the Europe League final match in 2012 or 2013.

In the city of Karabulak, Ingushetia, militiamen express their unwillingness to work under command of the new boss of local GOVD (City Interior Department). On August 10, they held a protest rally in front of the GOVD building.

American billionaire Donald Trump will build houses for most prosperous people of Georgia.

On August 10, in Yerevan, a march was held dated to the 90th anniversary of the Peace Treaty of Sevres, under which Armenia should have been given the territory, which was under Turkey's jurisdiction.

Today, the Court on Grave Crimes of Azerbaijan, chaired by Tamilla Nasrullayeva, has started a trial of a group of persons accused of preparing terror acts in the territory of the country.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed at the press service of the Kabardino-Balkarian Branch of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "RusHydro" that the full reconstruction of the Baksan Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) in Kabardino-Balkaria will be carried out during 2-2.5 years.