Seventeen years ago, on Aug. 10, 2009, Chechen human rights defender Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband, Alik Dzhabrailov, were abducted from the office of their charity in Grozny. Their bodies were found the following day, in what remains one of the most prominent unsolved killings of civil society activists in Chechnya.

A newborn baby girl was found abandoned at a playground in Armenia's capital, Yerevan, on Aug. 10. She was given emergency medical treatment and taken to hospital, where doctors said her condition was stable. Police and investigators are searching for her mother.

Russia's Supreme Court has cancelled the registration of the federal candidate list of the liberal Yabloko party for September's State Duma elections, removing the country's only officially registered political party that openly opposes the war in Ukraine. The ruling has not yet entered into force and can still be appealed.

Former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov says his public support for Palestine has led to financial losses, claiming that several companies ended or declined sponsorship agreements with him and other members of his team.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said relations between Azerbaijan and the United States have reached their highest level since the two countries established diplomatic ties 34 years ago.
In a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump marking the anniversary of the Washington Summit, Aliyev described the Aug. 8, 2025 meeting as a turning point both for Armenian-Azerbaijani normalization and for bilateral relations between Baku and Washington.

Lawyers Lasha Kapanadze and Mariam Durglishvili have withdrawn from representing Giorgi Chigladze, who is charged with attacking a Russian-speaking tourist at the Agarani Estate hotel in Georgia's eastern Kakheti region, saying their client had stopped following the agreed defence strategy.

Severe weather has left 77 settlements across Russia's Republic of Dagestan without electricity, while flooding has cut off road access to five villages after damaging roads and bridges, regional authorities said on August 10.
According to the Dagestan branch of Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry (EMERCOM), emergency power outages had affected 77 settlements in 11 districts as of 10:50 a.m. Moscow time. Earlier that morning, officials reported outages in 51 settlements across seven districts, including Untsukulsky, Akushinsky, Tabasaransky, Kulinsky and Gunibsky.

Three members of the Amaev family who died in the Sunzha River a day earlier were laid to rest on August 10 in the village of Samashki in Chechnya’s Sernovodsky district. The funeral was held for 15-year-old Yasin and his uncles, Khamzat and Shamil, who lost their lives while trying to rescue the teenager.

A Chechen family with four children faces deportation from Germany after its asylum application was rejected, raising concerns among human rights advocates that the family could face persecution if returned to Russia.

Ukrainian drones attacked Russia’s Rostov region and Krasnodar Krai overnight on August 10, Russian officials said.
Rostov Region Governor Yury Slyusar said more than 70 drones had been intercepted over the region. Air defences destroyed drones over Kamensk-Shakhtinsky and seven districts, he said.