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In the Krasnodar Territory, the Federal Highway "Don", running to the Black Sea shore, is paralysed by huge traffic jams. Within one day the road passes some 80-100 thousand cars, more than six-fold throughput of this highway.

On August 8 in Ingushetia, in Surkhakhi village, employees of unidentified power agencies beat and kidnapped Magomed Alikhanovich Mutsolgov, 15. His father was not told where the boy was taken.

On August 10, the humanitarian truck train from Ingushetia with 78 tons of mineral water for residents-fire victims arrived in Nizhniy Novgorod.

Within the project "Promotion of voluntary activities towards solution of social problems", a number of Azerbaijan districts are holding the action "Be a volunteer too!"

President of the UEFA Michel Platini, who visited the capital of Georgia, gave particular recommendations to the government, so that Tbilisi could host the Europe League final match in 2012 or 2013.

In the city of Karabulak, Ingushetia, militiamen express their unwillingness to work under command of the new boss of local GOVD (City Interior Department). On August 10, they held a protest rally in front of the GOVD building.

American billionaire Donald Trump will build houses for most prosperous people of Georgia.

On August 10, in Yerevan, a march was held dated to the 90th anniversary of the Peace Treaty of Sevres, under which Armenia should have been given the territory, which was under Turkey's jurisdiction.

Today, the Court on Grave Crimes of Azerbaijan, chaired by Tamilla Nasrullayeva, has started a trial of a group of persons accused of preparing terror acts in the territory of the country.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed at the press service of the Kabardino-Balkarian Branch of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "RusHydro" that the full reconstruction of the Baksan Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) in Kabardino-Balkaria will be carried out during 2-2.5 years.

Today, in shops of the city of Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, price for bread and bakery products have gone up by 40 percent; same as for flour and pasta.

The website of the city administration of Khasavyurt (Dagestan) reports that with the aim of more rational water use in the heat season, they suspended all the city car washes till September 1.

Today, the Court on Grave Crimes of Azerbaijan, chaired by Ramella Allakhverdieva, finalized the trial on the massacre committed on April 30, 2009, at the Azerbaijani State Oil Academy (ASOA), when Farda Gadirov entered the Academy, opened fire from his pistol, killed 12 persons, wounded 13 more and then committed suicide.

In Chechnya, 100 recruits became soldiers of the Internal Troops of Russia's MIA. They will serve in the "Sever" (North) special-purpose battalion of the Internal Troops. The republic's military commissariat states that it is the first "true" conscription for the last 20 years.

In the Derbent District of Dagestan, a break of an oil-extracting well rendered a significant ecological damage to local agricultural lands. Now, the oil spill covers the territory of about 60 hectares.

Residents of Adygea have sent their humanitarian aid to fire victims of the Verkhne-Mamon District of the Voronezh Region. Kalmykia also sent over 40 tons of humanitarian goods to fire victims in Central Russia.

Today, in the capital of Chechnya, in the Journalists' Mini-Park, in front of the building of the House of the Press, an action was held in memory of Zarema Sadulayeva, head of the youth charitable organization "Let's save the generation", who was assassinated a year ago.

Based on the data of the investigation, in the context of causing heavy harm to human health that entailed death of Bella Ksalova, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of the Karachai-Circassian Republic (KChR) made a decision to open a criminal case against the driver Arsen Abaikhanov who knocked her down. In the next few days his freedom restriction measure will be chosen.

On August 9, two workers busy with cleaning were killed by a mine explosion in the Staropromyslovskiy District of the capital of Chechnya.

Europe experiences a great demand for frogs exported from Georgia. In the opinion of gourmets, these amphibians from Georgian are superior in taste than frogs from other countries.