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On August 12-14, athletes from Southern Russia and Southern Caucasus won three gold and three bronze medals at Olympics-2016 in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).

During the week of August 8-14, 2016, 11 persons were killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

At the "Sheremetyevo" Airport, the Olympic champion was met not only by representatives of the Ingush Diaspora, but also by numerous fans of judo, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The murder of two policemen in Izberbash involves members of a local terrorist grouping. Earlier, they attacked a group of tourists and killed two persons in the vicinity of the village of Sergokala, investigators report.

Law enforcers search for three men who were in a car together with Khizir Likhov, killed in a shootout with the police at night of August 14. In a boot of the car, in which the men involved in the incident were travelling, the law enforcers found a person whose hands were tied.

In Sochi, for two years, families relocated after the Olympic Games to a multi-storey apartment house built for volunteers, are deprived of supply of hot water and heating. This was reported by tenants.

Khizir Likhov, treated by law enforcers as one of the militant leaders, was killed in Kabardino-Balkaria during a night attack on policemen. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

Preacher Shoip Tutaev, who publicly renounced his criticism against Ramzan Kadyrov, was detained by law enforcers for a week, and his body bore signs of torture. This was reported by Svetlana Gannushkina, the leader of the Committee "Civil Assistance".

Workers from four mines of the company "Kingcoal" have stated that they had not yet received 300 million roubles of wage arrears. Besides, they have accused the authorities of ignoring their demands.

100,000 signatures were gained by the petition posted on the state-owned portal of initiatives and directed against the package of anti-terrorism laws relating to Salafis and other non-traditional religious groups.

In the course of the shooting in the Magaramkent District of Dagestan, law enforcers killed a man who was put on the federal wanted list as a member of an illegal armed formation (IAF). This was reported by the regional law enforcement bodies.

Tomorrow, lawyers of Murat Aguzarov, a brother of Tamerlan Aguzarov, the former leader of North Ossetia, intend to complain to the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Russia about the refusal to register their client as a candidate to the State Duma.

The preliminary outcome of the contest of projects of the first shift of the North-Caucasian Forum "Mashuk-2016" has been obtained. Participants have presented their ideas to experts of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs and Regional Public Institutions.

The court hearing to elect the pre-trial restriction against Natiq Jafarli, the secretary of the movement "Republican Alternative", accused of violating law, took place at night, and the opposition was not allowed to meet his advocate before the court hearing. This was reported by Djavad Djavadov, an advocate of Natiq Jafarli.

Physicians were unable to save Gagik Mkrtchyan, who was wounded in a shootout with oppositionists during the capture of the building of the police regiment in Yerevan.

In Armenia, the Slovak-owned holding has proposed the Armenian authorities to direct investments for the resumption of rubber production at the plant "Nairit". Today, the company's employees have addressed a letter to Serzh Sargsyan with the request to accept the investor's proposal.

It took five days from investigators to complete the investigation into the criminal case against Irina Snytko, accused of biting a policeman when policemen tried to transport her car to a car pound. According to the defence, such an efficient investigation can be explained by the fact that the investigators had ignored the position of Irina Snytko.

In the village of Kraevo-Grecheskoe in Sochi, the prices for the cottages put up for auction are significantly lower than the ones at which the houses of the Olympic heritage fund were originally sold. According to residents of the villages, where the houses have already been sold, the most part of the houses are still empty.

Natiq Jafarli, the executive secretary and co-founder of the movement "ReAl" (Republican Alternative), has been taken into custody for four months by the decision of the Nasimi District Court of Baku. Azerbaijani oppositionists treat the case as politically motivated.

At the meeting of the Election Commission of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) held on August 12, the decision has been made to refuse Aliy Totorkulov, the chairman of the Russian Congress of the Peoples of the Caucasus, in the registration as a candidate to the Russian State Duma.