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During the week from August 1 to August 7, 2022, there were no reports of any casualties or wounded persons in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

The United States must achieve the restoration of the 1994 status quo for Nagorno-Karabakh and resume negotiations, protesters in Yerevan have stated.

Taking control over the Buzdukh height is of strategic value for the Azerbaijani Army and creates a springboard for new military operations in Karabakh, if they are necessary, Baku analysts assert. In their opinion, the Army can go on with the "Retribution" operation.

Today, in Georgia, state flags have been lowered to half mast on administrative buildings in memory of the victims of the Five-Day War.

At a solo picket in Makhachkala, Magomed Magomedov, the deputy editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft), demanded to release his colleague Abdulmumin Gadjiev.

Residents of Armenia, seeking the return of their relatives from Azerbaijani captivity, gathered in front of the Armenian government building. They demanded a meeting with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The chair of the Armenian government did not come out to the audience.

Another group of volunteers has flown from Grozny Airport to the military special operation zone, the head of Chechnya has reported.

Now, they are registering the refugees from Ukraine, evicted from hotels in Tbilisi and in need of housing; Georgian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have reported. Some refugees have already been registered in the programme.

Residents of the village of Akhavno in Nagorno-Karabakh have called on presidents of France and the United States to intervene in the situation with their forced resettlement. They demanded to include their village into the area of the new transport corridor built 1200 meters off Akhavno.

Persecution of pacifists in the southern regions of Russia; escalation in the Karabakh conflict zone; FSB’s report on the prevention of a terror act in Karachay-Cherkessia; cancellation of the decision of the Stavropol Territory Governor on permission of construction on Mashuk Mount, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 1-7, 2022, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

The Gudermes City Court of Chechnya has sentenced two local residents to two years and eight months in colony each for their intention to leave for Syria and participate in an illegal armed formation (IAF) there.

On August 7, South-Ossetia temples held memorial services on the eve of the 14th anniversary of the onset of the "Five-Day War". It was also decided to hold mourning events and lay flowers to the memorials in the Znaur and Leningor Districts.

The European Union (EU) must prevent the transfer to Russia of Amina Gerikhanova, a native of Chechnya, who had lived in Ukraine and was detained by Romanian authorities while crossing the border. This was stated at the action by members of the Chechen Diaspora in the United Kingdom (UK).

It is necessary to establish control over the citizens of Russia and Belarus who have arrived in Georgia, since their presence carries risks for the country, analysts and oppositional politicians have pointed out.

By its military actions, Azerbaijan is trying to speed up the implementation of the tripartite declaration on ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh in order to prevent discussion of its status, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Vladimir Putin has noted Chechnya's high achievements in socioeconomic sphere, the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, has informed. However, as reported by the "Chechenstat" (Republic's Statistics Committee), the unemployment rate in Chechnya in June 2022 was 11%.

Last night, about 2000 Shiite Muslims held a protest in Baku at which they demanded from British authorities to improve the security of the Azerbaijani Embassy in London after it was attacked by members of a Shiite extremist organization.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that he was included into the delegation that accompanied the Russian president at talks with the Turkish president in Sochi on August 5. The Turkish party offered Kadyrov to make a working trip to Turkey, to which he agreed.

Azerbaijani militaries have occupied the Buzukh height located in Karabakh conflict zone, the Azeri Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed today.

For several days already, the Makhachkala neighbourhood of Talgi faces problems with the supply of electricity, which also caused a failure of the pumps that supply water, local residents have complained.