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Today, at a trial at the North-Caucasian District Military Court, Maxim Martynov, a defendant in the case of preparing a terror act in the shopping centre of Novocherkassk, has completely admitted his guilt.

The drop of oil prices has forced Azerbaijan to look for alternative sources of filling in the budget; and the authorities have "staked on cotton," despite the threat to people's health, the Meydan TV has reported today after examining the situation with mass workers' poisonings in cotton fields.

The positions of the Azerbaijani Army in the Karabakh conflict zone were fired from large-calibre machine guns, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

Today, in Yerevan, protesters have achieved cancellation of the press conference of Robert Kocharyan, after which they marched to the buildings of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) and the Supreme Judicial Council of Armenia. They demanded to dismiss the judge, who had freed the former president of Armenia.

Since September 2014, residents of the Dagestani settlement of Vremenny are seeking compensations from the authorities for their housing destroyed during a special operation. Lawyers of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" have appealed against the judgement of the court, which in July this year refused to recognize the authorities' inaction.

Today, the court has sentenced Abdulmalik Albagachiev, a resident of Ingushetia, to nine years in colony, having found him to be a participant in the conflict in Syria. His relatives intend to appeal against the verdict.

In Yerevan, protesters have come to the building, where the former president of Armenia's press conference is scheduled, and demanded to cancel the decision to release Robert Kocharyan from custody.

The signing of the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea in general meets Azerbaijani interests. However, the document has failed to remove all the sea contradictions, the Azerbaijani experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The arrest in Istanbul of Seda Dudurkaeva, a daughter of the former head of the Chechen Branch of the Federal Migration Service (FMS), was caused by a suspicion of using a false passport, and not by links with Syrian militants, her advocate has explained.

The court of the Dubai Emirate has ordered the "FlyDubai" Airline to pay about 217,000 US dollars as compensation to children of the victims of the plane crash in Rostov-on-Don.

Law enforcement bodies have reported the murder of a suspect in organizing riots in Ganja. The casualty, as Azerbaijan law enforcers assert, professed radical religious views. He became the fifth person, killed by law enforcers after the riots in Ganja.

The many-hours-long queues on the Russian-Georgian border have been created artificially; and the Russian customs officials guilty of that should be dismissed, said the author of the electronic petition, which was signed by more than 2400 people.

Russian court has found a resident of Dagestan to be a member of the "Makhachkala" armed grouping and sentenced him to 11 years in colony.

Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the Republican Alternative (ReAl) Party, who was conditionally released from prison, is back at home and intends to continue his oppositional political activities.

The Five-Day War, which ended on August 12, 2008, brought untold sufferings to many residents of South Ossetia and Georgia, the journalists, who witnessed the events of ten years ago, have recollected.

The Court of Appeal (CoA) has cancelled the decision to place Robert Kocharyan behind bars, referring to his inviolability as the former president of Armenia. However, the accusations of dispersing the oppositionist rally have not been dropped from him, said his advocate.

During the week of August 6-12, 2018, there were no recorded events related to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. There were no reports of victims or casualties. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Within the last 24 hours, positions of Azerbaijani militaries in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled for 79 times, including from machine guns, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

Today, the appellate instance has replaced the remaining prison term of Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the Republican Alternative (ReAl) Party, for the conditional punishment. However, the court has not acquitted the oppositionist, his advocate has noted.

At the "Verkhny Lars" checkpoint, travelers have to stay in a line for more than 10 hours, the Department for North Ossetia of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) reports today. In social networks, tourists note that officials underestimate the problem on the border between Russia and Georgia.