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Over the last 24 hours, the positions of the Azerbaijani Army were shelled 12 times; three of them – from the territory of Armenia, and nine – from Karabakh, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed. Its Nagorno-Karabakh counterpart claims that the Azerbaijani Armed Forces violated the ceasefire regime by using small arms.

The man, who, according to the FSB (Russian Federal Security Bureau), was preparing a terror act in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), has been detained. Law enforcers treat him as a supporter of the "Right-Wing Sector"*.

The command of the military unit puts an unreliability stamp into service IDs of those servicemen who refuse to take part in the special operation in Ukraine in order to intimidate others, the lawyers and human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

As a result of the hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh, on August 3, the Azerbaijani Army occupied important heights that ensure control over strategically important roads on the border, the Baku analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent believe.

The unidentified persons who attacked the Azerbaijani Embassy to the United Kingdom raised religious flags and shouted radical religious slogans from the balcony of the building, the Azeri Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has stated.

The Central Bank of Russia has planned an experiment to develop Islamic banking in Chechnya and Dagestan; a pilot project will be launched in 2023.

During the past 24 hours, peacemakers recorded four ceasefire violations by the Azerbaijani party in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

Official Baku reacted to the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Armenia, which accused Azerbaijan of violating the trilateral ceasefire agreement. The reason for the aggravation of the situation was the failure of the Armenian side to comply with the clause of the agreement on the withdrawal of troops, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan stated.

Over 14,000 votes were received in the first day by a petition calling on the Georgian authorities to introduce a visa regime for citizens of Russia, as well as Belarus.

In response to the Nikol Pashinyan’s proposal to discuss the functions of Russian peacekeepers, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov has said that the Russian side is acting in Nagorno-Karabakh in accordance with the trilateral agreement and expects its compliance also from Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Russia justifiably accused Azerbaijan of violating the ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh and would similarly react to the escalation from the Armenian side, as Russia treats attempts to aggravate the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh during the special military operation in Ukraine as a “knife in the back”, Russian military experts point out.

The police did not conduct an examination of a drink, after which Azerbaijani oppositionist Samir Ashurov, who was kept in a temporary detention facility, felt ill, and the Ombudsperson did not provide verification of the reasons for the oppositionist’s deterioration in health, a spouse of the arrested activist states.

After the "Retribution" operation conducted in Nagorno-Karabakh, the situation in the territory where the Russian peacemaking contingent is temporarily stationed, as well as on the border, is relatively calm, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

Twice in two days, the Russia's Ministry of Defence (MoD) laid the blame on Azerbaijan for violating the ceasefire regime in the Karabakh conflict zone.

The materials on the agreement on the transfer of the "Pitsunda" state dacha to Russia have been returned to the MPs, while the Constitutional Court (CC) invited them to state their position on the issue in the appeal. They were given three days to correct the documents.

The spouses Darya Andreeva and Ilya Nikonorov from Georgievsk, fined under the article on discrediting the Russian Army, had to leave Russia due to law enforcers' pressure. The pressure was caused by the spouses' posting leaflets with pacifist statements, Darya Andreeva said.

On August 3, Apti Alaudinov, the Secretary of the Security Council of Chechnya, who in March headed a group of volunteers sent from Chechnya to Ukraine, received the stars of the Hero of Russia and the Hero of the LPR (Lugansk People's Republic).

Azerbaijan has demanded an immediate removal of Armenian militaries from Nagorno-Karabakh and threatened "even more destructive countermeasures" in case of provocations on the contact line separating the troops. The Nagorno-Karabakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has demanded the reaction of the world community to Baku's actions.

Forcing to convert to Islam or deciding to convert to Islam for money would be the height of cynicism, the Caucasian scholars interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have pointed out, not ruling out the fact that volunteers themselves have decided to convert to Islam in Chechnya before departing to Ukraine. In their opinion, such volunteers' initiative has stressed the Chechnya's special role in training fighters for the special military operation.

Today, after the aggravation of the situation on the line of contact with Azerbaijan, the President of Nagorno-Karabakh has signed a decree on partial mobilization.