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During 1.5 years, 18,700 residents left Armenia, reported the National Statistic Service. The downward trend in the country's population will continue. This opinion was voiced by experts questioned by the "Caucasian Knot".

In the case on the killing of road-and-patrol service (known as DPS) inspectors and on the attack on fighters of the National Guard of Russia in Astrakhan, the number of detainees includes a wife of one of the killed defendants. This was reported by investigators.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, the court has sentenced Georgian citizens to more than two years of imprisonment. They were accused of illegally crossing the state border of the Russian Federation.

Three Ukrainian tourists have failed to independently continue their way through the mountain pass in Svaneti, and rescuers brought them by helicopter to a safe place. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Georgia.

An Ingush policeman was killed on a section of a road in North Ossetia, which is rarely crowded. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" by a source from the police. According to the source, several versions for motives of the killing are under investigation.

In the Krasnodar Territory, a feminist camp has been disrupted, since its organizers were first threatened with reprisals, and then the police detained them twice a day with a minor child. This was reported by the women themselves.

The court's decision to arrest Ruslan Gara (Garaev), an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), is unreasonable and politically motivated, and therefore it will be challenged. This was reported by the activist's advocate.

The main achievements of Abkhazia over the 25 years of its history were the victory in the war against Georgia under President Vladislav Ardzinba and Russia's recognition of the republic's independence under President Sergey Bagapsh. This was stated by the residents of Abkhazia, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Today, about 500 residents of the village of Novaya Shangoda-Shitlib in the Kumtorkalin District of Dagestan have come out to a rally against the disconnection of 18 houses from the gas supply and demolition thereof.

On a video from a Baghdad shelter, an old woman from Astrakhan has recognized her grandson, who was born after the departure of her daughter with husband to Syria, the RT TV Channel reports.

In Gelendzhik, the court arrested for five days two lezginka dancers for petty hooliganism and failure to obey to policemen.

The leaders of Dagestan and Ingushetia, who requested to exclude their republics from a rental certificate for screening of the film "Matilda", followed the example of Ramzan Kadyrov, without being aware of the federal authorities' position on the fate of the film. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" by Russian political analysts.

Law enforcers have lifted the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime in the village of Orota, where Khadjimurad Gadjiev, the suspected leader of the Khunzakh militant grouping, was killed.

Thus morning, Arman Movsisyan, a serviceman, was mortally wounded in a combat position, the Nagorno-Karabakh’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) reports.

Law enforcers have discovered explosives, weapons, and ammunition in a house where Khadjimurad Gadjiev, the leader of the Khunzakh militant grouping, was killed. This is reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

On August 13, a contract soldier, who served at the Russian military base in Gyumri, drowned in Lake Sevan.

On August 14, 1992, the State Council of Georgia abolished the resolution on the independence of Abkhazia and pronounced the decision to introduce troops into the republic. Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili called the war in Abkhazia a "big mistake."

In Dagestan, the leader of the Khunzakh grouping of militants was killed as a result of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) for Dagestan.

In Grozny, women participating in a march, have reported that officials of the Chechen authorities promised to provide assistance to return Chechen children from Syria and Iraq.

The return to Chechnya of a boy, who had been taken out by his father to Syria, prompted residents of the republic to seek authorities’ assistance in the return of other children.