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At the fifth Caspian summit in Kazakhstan, Vladimir Putin has announced that the port to be built in the city of Kaspiysk until 2025 will be able to receive ships with a workload of 15,000-25,000 tons.

Ten years after the August 2008 events, Georgian war veterans told the "Caucasian Knot" how the acute phase of the conflict, which went down in history as the "five-day war," began and developed. War veterans said that large-scale military operations began not on August 8, but on August 6, when the villages of Nuli and Avnevi were destroyed by mortar fire, and on August 2, wounded law enforcers began to enter the military hospital.

In the Krasnosulin District, Rostov Region, 15 activists went out to protest, demanding from the authorities to pay attention to farmers' land problems.

Rayudin Yusufov, a former Dagestani official, accused of fraud, has reported to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) that he was detained without observing the necessary formalities.

On August 12, in Kazakhstan, the leaders of the so-called "Caspian Five" countries signed the Convention on Legal Status of the Caspian Sea. Presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan have called the deal historic.

The Constitutional Court (CC) of Georgia has treated as unjustified those assessments and statements made by the clergy in connection with the decision made by the CC on marijuana consumption.

Genrikh Abramyan, a brother of Ovik Abramyan, a former Prime Minister of Armenia, is accused of illegal acquisition and storage of arms and ammunition. The court decided to arrest him.

In the Senak Municipality of Georgia, about 70 families were cut off from the outside world: after intense rainfalls, the Tekhura River came out of the banks; and streams of water smashed two bridges.

Hideouts with submachine guns and ammunition have been neutralized in the Chechen village of Kalaus and in the Makhachkala settlement of Shamkhal, law enforcers have reported.

From August 5 to 11, Azerbaijani soldiers made more than 1800 shots on the positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh has stated.

Rescuers have handed the body of a man, whose heart stopped on Saturday while he was climbing Mount Elbrus, over to law enforcers.

Within the past 24 hours, Armenian militaries violated the ceasefire in the Karabakh conflict zone for 82 times by using heavy machine guns, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

Harlem Désir, the OSCE Official on Media Freedom, has called on Azerbaijani authorities to urgently reform the country's mass media legislation. Meanwhile, the Court of Appeal (CoA) has cancelled the blocking of one of the news websites – the "arqument.az".

Law enforcers have detained Ruslan Shavadze, who had been sentenced in absentia to 13 years in prison for complicity to the terrorist grouping headed by Akhmed Chataev.

The UN reports are important, but authorities do not always consider them, said Svetlana Gannushkina, the head of the Civil Assistance Committee, and Sergey Davidis, a board member of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

Karim Kasumov, a resident of Dagestan, accused of attacking a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent during a rally in Makhachkala, knew that he was interfering with making a video by a media professional, one of the witnesses told the court, refuting the version of his defence.

The Court of Appeal has considered the complaint of the defence of Robert Kocharyan, the second Armenian President, about his arrest, and has postponed the decision on it until August 13. The members of the Council of Elders of Yerevan from the "Apricot Country" Party have stopped their action against Kocharyan, saying that they will wait for the court's decision.

Ruslan Nasirli, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), has demanded from the court to restore his right to be visited by family members and have telephone talks with them.

The state of health of Manvel Grigoryan, a former MP and the head of the Armenian "Erkrapa" Union of Volunteers, is worsening day by day; and his life is under threat, the defence explained its petition to change the measure of the defendant's freedom restraint.

A ritual of shooting at a Caucasian wedding party was considered to be "a kind of a symbol for protection against the evil eye," but the ancient tradition had long turned into an element of fun and courage, noted experts on the Caucasus. The tradition of saluting takes part not only at wedding parties.