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After the trilateral declaration had been signed on November 10, 2020, the remains of 1713 Armenian military personnel were found and transferred to Armenia, reported Ismail Akhundov, the secretary of the State Commission of Azerbaijan for Prisoners of War, Hostages, and Missing Persons.

During the week from August 22 to August 28, 2022, during the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, there were no reports about any casualties or wounded persons. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

At their meeting with the Russian ambassador, female activists from Abkhazia, who oppose the transfer of the state dacha in Pitsunda to Russia, stated that the alienation of this territory would provoke anti-Russian sentiments in the society.

The transport routes offered by Armenia for Azerbaijan's communication with the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) are unprofitable for Baku, and are a ploy to disrupt the Zangezur Corridor project, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

After training at the Russian Special Troops University, another group of volunteers has flown from Grozny Airport to the special military operation, the head of Chechnya has announced.

Two foreign doctors have received a temporary license from the Georgian Ministry of Public Health and have already examined Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili. The West will not leave unanswered any confirmation of the abuse of power against Saakashvili, local analysts have pointed out.

The activists, dissatisfied with the transfer of the Lachin Corridor to Azerbaijan and the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, have demanded resignation of high-ranking officials. After meeting with the president, they gathered a mass rally in Stepanakert.

Policemen have repeatedly visited the mother of Darya Andreeva, an activist from the town of Georgievsk, insisting that Darya and her husband, who had been fined for discrediting the army, return to Russia. The activist has treated these visits as law enforcers' pressure.

The heads of the regions of North Ossetia should form detachments of volunteers to be sent to Ukraine, and this is a new criterion for evaluating the work of municipal officials, Sergey Menyailo, the leader of the republic, announces.

The traffic along the alternative route to the Lachin Corridor to Armenia will be open on the evening of August 30, the office of the President of Nagorno-Karabakh reports today.

According to experts interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot”, Russian peacekeepers will stay in the Lachin Corridor until the launch of an alternative road from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia, and then they will change their location and take control of the new route.

Today, one of the foreign doctors admitted by the Georgian Ministry for Public Health to examine former President Mikhail Saakashvili has arrived at a Tbilisi clinic. He and his colleagues should examine whether the former Georgian President is seriously ill and whether his illness prevents him from serving his sentence, a politician’s advocate reports.

In Makhachkala, two solo pickets were held by journalists Magomed Magomedov and Idris Yusupov with the demand to stop the criminal prosecution of Abdulmumin Gadjiev and to release political prisoners.

Parents of the Armenian soldiers who perished in the 2020 Karabakh war have announced a protest action demanding to arrest Nikol Pashinyan, the Premier, inviting political forces and activists to join them.

In January-July, 2022, Dagestan registered the largest number of terrorist crimes among Russian regions – it follows from the data of the Russia's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO). The top five of the rating also includes Ingushetia, Chechnya and Kabardino-Balkaria.

The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has failed yet with the demand voiced out by the court on August 1 to eliminate violations in the case of the death of Inal Djabiev, Sergey Bitiev, the Acting Public Prosecutor of South Ossetia has informed. Those guilty of Djabiev's death remain unpunished for two years, Telegram users have pointed out.

The author of the video with remarks to tourists visiting Dagestan about their appearance behaved aggressively and was sparking the conflict despite the tourists' apologies, Telegram users have noted in the comments to the video.

At the dwelling settlements located in the Lachin Corridor that came under the control of Baku, military police posts began operating, the Azeri Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced.

Chechen athletes should agree their behaviour when outside the republic with authorities, local officials have announced, explaining this by the concern for the image of the Chechen people.

The remarks of passers-by to tourists about their appearance in Chechnya are quite appropriate, users of the Chechen public wrote after a video of men walking down the street in shorts. Hotels and the Ministry of Tourism should control tourists' behaviour, others have objected.