Russian President Vladimir Putin and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan held a meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in China, which is taking place from August 31 to September 1. This was Putin’s first bilateral conversation with a foreign leader at the forum.

In the first half of 2025, residents of the North Caucasus allegedly felt an increase in their real cash income. According to Rosstat, this increase in the indicator was 6.3% compared to the same period last year (taking into account the impact of inflation).

In July 2025, the North Caucasus saw a decrease in the popularity of credit cards. According to the Central Bank, their number in the district has noticeably decreased compared to the same period last year.

According to information distributed by the insider public INSIDER BLACK, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered state media to launch a campaign to criticize the policies of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, which Moscow considers "anti-Russian."

A conflict between a citizen of Azerbaijan and representatives of the ultra-right organization "Russian Community" occurred in St. Petersburg. The reason was the intervention of nationalists in a situation in which, as it seemed to them, a girl was being beaten.

A sharp jump in overdue mortgage debt has been recorded in Ingushetia. Dvizhenie analysts note that the republic is among the leading regions in terms of growth of this indicator, which has more than tripled since the summer of 2024. A similar situation is observed in Tuva.

Russia has expressed its agreement with the joint decision of Azerbaijan and Armenia to liquidate the OSCE Minsk Group, which was engaged in the settlement of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. This was announced by Russia's Permanent Representative to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich, specifying that they plan to complete the process by December 2025.

Portraits of participants in the war in Ukraine, exhibited on Peter I Avenue in Makhachkala, were defaced. This was reported by the mayor of Makhachkala, Dzhambulat Salavov, calling the incident "an act of vandalism."

Famous mountaineer Alexander Rastorguev died tragically in the mountains of Kabardino-Balkaria. During the ascent, the sports group was caught in a rockfall. In addition to Rastorguev's death, Ekaterina Fedorchuk was injured, evacuated by helicopter and taken to the hospital. Another member of the group was not injured.

Left Resistance activist Darya Polyudova cannot contact a lawyer due to new rules for calls in Kostroma's Penal Colony No. 8.