On August 9, protests against power outages began in Makhachkala - city residents blocked roads, demanding that the lights be returned to their apartments. August became a test not only for the city's housing and utilities system and the republic's leadership - some tried to test the capabilities of social networks to mobilize people for mass riots.

In the city of Moscow, law enforcement officers accepted the statement of a native of the North Caucasus, who was attacked by local residents because of wearing a hijab. The resonant incident occurred at the end of August, when the victim was walking with her eight-year-old son.

On July 15, the Memorial Human Rights Center published information on the practice of using preventive accounting in Dagestan in 2023. According to human rights activists, if previously the police registered mainly adherents of the Salafi branch of Islam who attend “unreliable” mosques as potential extremists, now relatives of convicted persons and women wearing a niqab are included in the classified lists of criminal records.

On August 14, a fire and explosion occurred near a gas station in the suburbs of Makhachkala, killing 35 people and injuring 84. 16 people in serious condition were evacuated to Moscow clinics. About 400 buildings were damaged.

On July 17, Russian athlete Yelena Isinbayeva, holder of several world records in pole vaulting, who moved to Tenerife, announced on social media that she was a "citizen of the world" and was resuming her work in the International Olympic Committee. The statement by the athlete, who was a trusted person of the president, caused a negative reaction from everyone - both former comrades and the opposition.

The names of 13 more soldiers from the North Caucasus who were killed in the war in Ukraine have become known. Of these, 7 people are from Chechnya, 4 from Dagestan and 2 from North Ossetia. Such figures are cited by the Kavkaz. Realities".

On August 23, the Ministry of Justice of Russia included in the register of foreign agents, which already included the previously liquidated "Committee against Torture", the "Team against Torture". This was reported in the organization's Telegram channel.

The Circassian city court dismissed the case against Kase Kik, the chairman of the "Circassian Congress". Recall that earlier the Center for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the KChR accused the man of "discrediting" the Russian army.