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The authorities of Chechnya forced to return from Moscow about a hundred natives of the republic, whom the law enforcement bodies consider to be drug addicts and lawbreakers. The returned young people publicly repented and were sent to community service.

Restrictions on the operation of public transport and catering outlets to be still in force after the easing of the quarantine regime caused discontent among Baku residents.

Grozny has hosted a half-marathon race, in which more than 260 people took part. The participants of the demonstrative race for 1.5 kilometres carried the multi-meter-long banner with the inscription: "#MySemyaKRA" (We are the family of Kadyrov, Ramzan Akhmatovich) across the city centre.

The positions of the Azerbaijani Army located in five villages near the Armenian border were shelled, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

Relatives of the Azerbaijanis accused of violence during the protest action in the tent camp near the village of Kullar insist that Elmar Mekhtiev, Djeikhun Namazov and Anvar Muradov had committed no illegal actions and did not throw stones at policemen.

US President Donald Trump has treated the decision to revise the case against Djokhar Tsarnaev as absurd, and called the convict "a beast." Instagram users have expressed their outrage at the Trump's statement.

In the modern Chechnya, the exaltation of the ruler's mother, which was characteristic of some Middle Eastern monarchies in the past, serves to strengthen Ramzan Kadyrov's power, the Orientalists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

The next group of Azerbaijani citizens to be sent home from the tent camp in the Dagestani village of Kullar includes 250 people; most of them are those who have recently arrived there. Meanwhile, there are camp tenants who are waiting for departure for a long time, while the new arrivals leave for home just in a few days, the camp long-livers complain.

On August 3, Rufat Safarov, the executive director of the human rights organization "Defence Line", was summoned the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan and interrogated within the case of the July 15 unsanctioned rally. The GPO issued a warning to him in connection with the dissemination of information about the torture of Fuad Gakhramanly, who is accused within the same case.

Policemen have detained a suspect of attacking a transgender in Baku and launched an investigation. The country has no efficient mechanisms for protecting the rights of LGBT people, transgender people assert.

In Ingushetia, a court pronounced a verdict against a local resident in a case on the use of violence against policemen who tried to prevent the kidnapping of a patient from a hospital in Nazran, the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia reports today.

Over 24 hours, the positions of the Azerbaijani troops were 35 times shelled on the border with Armenia and in the Karabakh conflict zone, including from large-calibre machine guns and sniper rifles, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.

Residents of 12 regions, including Dagestan, Karachay-Cherkessia, the Rostov Region, and Chechnya, were detained on suspicion of manufacturing firearms and ammunition, the Russian FSB reported.

The Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation had distributed 1000 sacrificial animals to residents of Saudi Arabia on the occasion of the holiday of Eid al-Adha, the leader of Chechnya reported. In response, some Instagram users noted that the assistance should have been directed to the needy residents of the Chechen republic.

On August 2, the Azerbaijani Canadian Association announced that natives of Armenia took part in an attack on Azerbaijani citizens in Toronto. Two persons were injured during the clash, and one of them was hospitalized, the Embassy of Azerbaijan reported.

During the week from July 27 to August 2, 2020, one person died during the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; no information about the wounded ones was reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Chechnya is holding a contest among schoolchildren for the best video clip dedicated to Aimani Kadyrova, Ramzan Kadyrov's mother. Residents of Chechnya treat the contest as an attempt to plant the cult of the Kadyrov family.

Many residents of Georgia are unaware of the scale of Stalin's repression and are proud of Joseph Stalin as their fellow countryman who held the highest post in the Soviet Union, historians said.

At an emergency sitting, Alkhas Kondjariya, the deputy head of the Abkhazian Ministry of Public Health (MPH), said that the opening of the Abkhazian-Russian border amid the increase in the number of COVID-19 infected people was a surprise for the MPH.

The Georgian Government should inform the relatives of the deceased programmer Tamar Bachaliashvili to which officials she had access to before her death, the girl's mother explained her demand to meet the Georgian Prime Minister.