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Last week, from August 6 to August 12, 2012, at least 41 persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, 24 persons perished and 17 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.

The judicial panel on civil cases of the Volgograd Regional Court upheld the decision of the Dzerzhinsky District Court of Volgograd with regard to Igor Maksimchuk, Chief of the Department for housing policy of the city administration, who was accused of overestimating the costs of apartments, purchased for orphans.

Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Chechnya, was too eager in criticizing Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the leader of Ingushetia. This was stated by Alexander Cherkasov, Chairman of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial". Musa Muradov, a correspondent of the newspaper "Kommersant", believes that the terror act in Grozny, committed on August 6, should not be associated with the words of the Chechen leader.

Kartoev brothers and Zelimkhan Aushev, residents of Ingushetia, convicted in case on blowing up the "Neva-Express" Train in November 2009, were transferred from the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the city of Tver to Moscow. This was stated by Musa Pliev, the lawyer of the defendant Timur Kartoev.

The criminal case against former district militia inspectors, accused of using violence against Vyacheslav Merekha, a resident of the Stavropol Territory, was brought to the Predgorny District Court.

As a result of shootout, which occurred at the marketplace "Zagorodny" (Countryside) in Makhachkala, guards of the market, born in 1988 and 1990, were delivered to hospital with wounds. At present, their condition is assessed as satisfactory.

Today, the Court of Appeal of the Odessa Region dismissed the complaint, filed by the defence of Adam Osmaev, suspected of planning the assassination of Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, and upheld the decision of the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine to extradite the native of Grozny to Russia.

Today, the Zamoskvorechye Court of Moscow renewed the investigation into the case against athlete Rasul Mirzaev, after whose blow Ivan Agafonov, a resident of Moscow, died. The victim party filed a motion to challenge Prosecutor Yulia Zotova.

Deputy Prosecutor of the Stavropol Territory has confirmed the indictment on the criminal case against four former district militia inspectors of the OVD (Interior Division) of the Predgorny District of the Stavropol Territory, accused of abusing detainees.

On August 12, the Tarumovka District Court of Dagestan pronounced pre-trial restriction in the form of keeping in custody to a 25-year old native of Ukraine without fixed abode, suspected of raping and murdering a nine-year female resident of the village of Koktyubei. On the previous day, local residents almost lynched the suspect, and the murder was prevented by the intervention of the investigators.

Successful Caucasian athletes at London Olympics; fourth anniversary of August events in South Ossetia; suicide bombing in Chechnya; start of trial in Iran of Azerbaijani poets; appointment of city manager in Stavropol; another victory of "Anji" FC Europa League; end of trial on resonant criminal case against the world champion in mixed martial arts Rasul Mirzaev, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of August 6-12, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has accepted a complaint lodged by the defence of Igor Bereziuk, a convict for the unrests in Manege Square, said his lawyer Dmitry Agranovskiy.

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.

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.

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