Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian called on his counterpart Ilham Aliyev in a telephone conversation to check reports of Israeli drones flying from Azerbaijani territory to strike his country.

The Georgian Parliament, which is effectively completely controlled by the ruling party, has quickly passed a law introducing significant restrictions on media photography and videography in courts. The initiative was supported by 80 deputies.

A week ago, the cafe "Chechen Kitchen 95" was set on fire in the city of Ramenskoye in the Moscow region. The owners believe that the arsonist is linked to the nationalist group "Russian Community", which has previously committed similar acts.

The Soviet District Court of Makhachkala satisfied the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office against the State Secretary of Dagestan Magomed-Sultan Magomedov and his relatives. The oil company "Kaspetrolservis" ("Dagnefteprodukt"), including land plots, buildings and gas stations, was seized from their property.

The defendants in the attack on Russian soldiers in Chechnya in 1999 received 45 years in a maximum security penal colony for two. This decision was made by a court in Rostov regarding Vakhit Khamzatkhanov and Takhir Begeldiev – 24 and 21 years respectively. Neither of them admitted guilt. According to the court, Khamzatkhanov and Begeldiev were members of the group of Shamil Basayev and Emir Khattab. For more details, watch our video.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia is looking for those involved in the explosion of a private educational college in Nazran on Mutaliyev Street. The issue of initiating a criminal case is being decided.

A court in Simferopol extended the arrest of four Crimean Tatars until October 4. Plumber Rustem Mustafayev, laborer Abibulla Smedlyaev, son of a political prisoner Emir Kurtnezirov and cook Mirzali Tazhibaev are accused of participating in the activities of the Islamic political party Hizb ut-Tahrir, banned in Russia but legal in Ukraine and other countries.

15 people have been arrested in Armenia on charges of “preparing a terrorist act and seizing power,” the country’s Investigative Committee reports. Among them is the leader of the “Sacred Struggle” protest movement, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan – he has been remanded in custody for two months.

A court in Cherkessk sentenced a follower of Jehovah's Witnesses with a second-degree disability to 4.5 years in prison for extremism. During the hearing, the defendant lost consciousness due to poor health. Previously, despite his health, he was in custody for almost a year and a half in a pretrial detention center.

The leader of the Georgian opposition Coalition for Change Zurab Girchi Japaridze, who was sentenced to 7 months in prison on June 23, is distributing a letter from prison in which he suggests creating an online platform to count the number of opponents of the ruling party. The text talks about the importance of opposition unity and the need for protest.