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So far, the search for members of the armed underground conducted in the mountainous Vedeno District of Chechnya for the third day already has yielded no results. Power agents do not exclude that militants could escape from the blockaded area.

The oppositional party headed by Nino Burjanadze, a former parliament's speaker, and named "Democratic Movement – United Georgia" will not take part in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Salimkhan Djamaldinov, the deputy head of the administration of Khasavyurt, whose son surrendered during a special operation, was dismissed from his post on the initiative of the head of Dagestan, the "Caucasian Knot" was informed at the department for information policy and press service of the president of Dagestan.

About 500 Chechens, residing in Syria, wish to return to their historic homeland to the Chechen Republic; at present, the problems of the issuance of long-term visas and residence permits for them are being solved. This was reported by the Department of External Relations of the Chechen leader and the government of Chechnya.

Today, the "Armavia" Airline carried out a special flight "Yerevan-Damascus-Yerevan" to transport children of Syrian Armenians to Armenia. This flight brought 120 children, who were met by Granush Akopyan, Minister of Diaspora of Armenia, Syrian Ambassador to Armenia, and by their relatives.

5 policemen and 2 persons, suspected of involvement in an illegal armed formation (IAF) killed in a shootout in the Botlikh District of Dagestan.

On August 5, the flight "Moscow-Makhachkala" of the "Utair" Airline was delayed because of an aircraft's failure. This was reported by a representative of the airline carrier. After passengers arranged a protest action, the Airline provided them with another aircraft on August 6.

The Armenian police received evidence that the fight at the "Harsnaqar" Restaurant in Yerevan, as a result of which military doctor Vage Avetyan perished, involved other participants, apart from 6 arrested persons. The journalists were informed about that by Arsen Aivazyan, the representative of the Police of Armenia.

The Council of Imams of Khasavyurt has called for stopping killings in Dagestan, which are committed with religious motives, and claimed that Islam treats a killing of an innocent soul as the second major sin.

Today, the Kotovo District Court of the Volgograd Region sentenced Oksana Levchenko, the family governess, to 4 years of imprisonment in a common security penal colony for the fact that she beat a6-year-old child, who took a candy without asking permit. This was reported by Natalia Kunitskaya, Spokesperson of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

For the week from July 30 to August 5, 2012, at least 18 persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, 11 persons perished and 7 more were wounded. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot" based on own materials of the edition and information from other open sources.

Oleg Shein, ex-candidate for the position of Mayor of Astrakhan, filed appeals against decisions of the Courts of the Kirov, Lenin, Soviet, and Trusovsky District of the city of Astrakhan on dismissal the claim for cancellation of the election, held on March 4.

One of the men, who surrendered during the special operation in Khasavyurt, was put on the wanted list on suspicion of robbery, and another one was put on the list of missing persons. The third surrendered man, the owner of the blocked house and the son of the deputy head of Khasavyurt, is, according to power agents, an accomplice of the militants, not put on the wanted list. The negotiations with the suspected militants involved their relatives.

A Dagestani blogger has discovered at the website of the public procurement the order of the housing and communal services of Makhachkala, the works on which are already underway, although the auction had been appointed only on August 13. This information caused a great response of the blogosphere.

The "Armavia" Airline plans to carry out special flights to Syria to transport children of Syrian Armenians to Armenia. In total, it is planned to bring 400 children. This was reported by a representative of the Ministry of Diaspora.

On August 8, more than 300 persons gathered in Vladikavkaz in front of the temple of Saint George to attend the action "Candle of Memory", dedicated to the fourth anniversary of the conflict in South Ossetia.

Maria Stadnik, an Azerbaijani athlete, won the silver medal at London Olympic Games in women's wrestling in the weight category of 48 kg.

Azerbaijan maintains an atmosphere of impunity for crimes, committed against journalists; strict state control over the sphere of media is obvious; there are facts of pressure on those persons, who criticize the authorities, and the facts of restriction of freedom of expression on the Internet. These conclusions were made by representatives of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) in the semi-annual report "Critical Voices of Azerbaijan under threat".

Tenants of the dormitory in Grozny, located in No. 4 in Vyborgskaya Street of the Zavodskoi District, have reported on the decision of the territorial administration of the "Rosimuschestvo" (the Federal Agency for State Property Management) in Chechnya, in accordance with which about 100 families are to leave the dormitory till September 1. According to the tenants, they have nowhere to go.

Today, at about 5:30 p.m., unidentified persons seized and took away Vladimir Zhamborov, the head of the administration of the leader of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), a figurant of the case on embezzling state property, from the Moscow medical centre named after Bakulev. This was stated by relatives.