Russia's plan to turn the Ochamchira port in Abkhazia into a military base aims to transfer the confrontation to the Black Sea, including into Georgian territorial waters. US Assistant Secretary of State and Sanctions Policy Coordinator Jim O’Brien recalled this.

The capital of Chechnya, Grozny, became the best Russian city in terms of quality of life in 2024. This is stated in a study by sociologists from a university under the government of the Russian Federation.

Responsibility for what is happening today or will happen tomorrow in Georgia lies with the government. The second initiation of the bill “on foreign agents” was a provocation. This was stated by the country's President Salome Zurabishvili during a meeting with ambassadors of EU member states.

Previously convicted, Ivan Kumov, who returned from the war in Ukraine, beat to death a veteran of the war in Chechnya, Alexei Khudyakov. This happened in Chebarkul, Chelyabinsk region.

The health problems of Zarema Musaeva, who is being held in a penal colony in the city of Argun, are significantly worsening. The Team Against Torture lawyer, Alexander Savin, who visited her, has been seeking her hospitalization for several months.

28% of residents of Ingushetia and 21% of Karachay-Cherkessia have incomes below the subsistence level, i.e. less than 14 thousand rubles per month. According to this indicator, the republics occupy first and third places in the Russian Federation.

Georgia ranked 103rd and Azerbaijan 164th in Reporters Without Borders' annual World Press Freedom Index. The first South Caucasian country dropped by 26 positions, the second by 13. Armenia does not appear in the ranking.

Russian GRU special forces captain Eduard Ulman died in the SVO zone in Ukraine. This was reported by his mother and the former head of the public organization “Union of Military Personnel “Defense”” Sergei Semanchuk.

Crimean Tatar activists Enver Krosh, Vilen Temeryanov, Renat Aliyev and Edem Bekirov were extended their detention in pre-trial detention until August 29. Former imam Remzi Kurtnezirov's house arrest was extended until August 4.

Thousands of residents of Tbilisi and other cities of Georgia once again protested against the law on foreign agents. The day before, the protesters declared disobedience to the authorities until the bill was withdrawn, putting forward a number of demands.