This summer, 20-year-old Dzhennet Askenderova, the daughter of the Speaker of the People's Assembly of Dagestan Zaur Askenderov, was vacationing in Europe with her friends. Including the expensive Jimmy’z Monte-Carlo club in Monaco. She herself admitted this on her Instagram account.

Russian telegram channels report that the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, blamed the former Minister of Health and Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Elkhan Suleymanov for the deterioration of his health and brutally executed him. Kadyrov decided that Suleymanov was deliberately trying to poison him and buried him in the ground.

The Kremlin insists on the release of life-sentenced murderer Zelimkhan Khangoshvili

The Russian Federation and the United States are negotiating a prisoner exchange. Number one on the Kremlin’s list is Vadim Krasikov (Sokolov), a life-sentenced citizen of the Russian Federation, an alleged FSB officer.

The body of another person who died as a result of the natural disaster in Shovi was found in the bed of the Chanchakhi River in Racha. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia reports this.

Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Chechen Minister of Culture Aishat Kadyrova with a medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd Class.

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.