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Experts believe that the events of August 2008 continue affecting many aspects of life in Southern Caucasus. Alexander Rusetsky, Director of the Caucasus Institute for Regional Security, believes that the conflict should be viewed in the context of geopolitical games played by Russia and NATO.

A staff member of the pre-trial prison No. 4 of Moscow has beaten Bashir Khamkhoev, a native of Ingushetia, charged in the case of the terror act committed at the "Domodedovo" Airport.

Saida Khaibulaeva, a resident of the village of Karlanyurt of the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, appealed to Ramazan Abdulatipov with a request to take control of the criminal investigation into the murder of her husband Radjab Magomedov.

On August 10, the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan has approved the candidacy of incumbent President Ilham Aliev for taking part in the presidential election.

Great Britain should not boycott the Olympic Games in Sochi because of the Russian law banning propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships, says David Cameron.

In Azerbaijan, Tural Abbasly, the leader of the youth organization of the "Musavat" Party, who is serving an administrative penalty of arrest, is subjected to inhuman treatment in detention. This was reported by the activist's mother.

The criminal case against Soltan Semyonov, Mayor of Karachaevsk, is of ordered and political nature. This was stated by Andrei Ostroukhov, an advocate of Soltan Semyonov, during the court session to review the motion to take Soltan Semyonov in custody.

On August 8, Vladimir Gasparyan, Chief of Armenian Police, recalled the earlier proposed draft law to ban the propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations.

The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) has demanded to release 14 political and civil society activists, human rights defenders and journalists imprisoned in Azerbaijan.

The Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic found guilty five local residents of banditry and attacks on law enforcers and sentenced them to various terms of imprisonment.

The Georgian oppositional Christian-Democratic Movement (CDM) had offered to add the Constitution with the provision allowing marriages only of different sexes.

On August 9, a protest action was held at the building of the Armenian government against the decision of the authorities to raise tuition fees in universities.

On August 9, at the building of the circus in Volgograd, a picket against the use of animals in circus, coordinated with the authorities, was held.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow has arrested Stanislav Khatskevich, the former Director General of the Open Joint-Stock Company "Krasnaya Polyana", suspected of abuse of power at obtaining revenues from the construction of Olympic facilities in Sochi.

The Zamoskvoretskiy Court of Moscow has dismissed a complaint against the warning of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office demanding from the non-profit organization (NPO) Transparency International-Russia, which carries out its work among other regions in the Caucasus, to get registered as a "foreign agent".

On August 8, at court session in case of the murder of Chechen poet Ruslan Akhtakhanov, the Savyolovo District Court of Moscow listened to four witnesses, including Zarema Akhtakhanova, the daughter of the murdered poet.

The Investigating Department of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for the Krasnodar Territory verifies the information on the fact of a crime committed against a minor girl in one of the children's camps of Anapa.

In Sochi, Lyudmila Shestak, a City Council deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), has filed to the Mayoralty an application on holding in Primorsky Park a rally against capital construction of a well-room in the park area. The rally is scheduled for August 18.

In Georgia, the problem of refugees remains unsolved for five years since August 2008. Their number reaches about 23,000 persons; however, the exact number of refugees still has not been calculated.

Residents of the village of Verkhny Kurkuzhin of Kabardino-Balkaria battened doors of the local ambulance station to protest against the dismissal of Mukhamed Tatimov, acting head of the local ambulance station.