In Armenia, actions of disobedience by the opposition movement “Tavush in the name of the Motherland” continued. The participants blocked several highways between Yerevan and other cities, and several streets were blocked in the center of the capital. Police detained more than 70 protesters.

232 people were evacuated from the flood zone in northern Armenia. It is reported that 28 people were taken from the Tufenkian hotel complex in Lori. 110 people were evacuated from the area near the Sanahin railway station, 62 from the city of Tashir, 22 from Alaverdi, 7 from Ayrum, 2 from Dilijan, 1 from the village of Haghartsin.

Today Georgia celebrates Independence Day. A protest rally will be held in Tbilisi under the slogan “Always and everywhere, Georgia, I am with you” against the law on foreign agents. Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili said at the solemn celebration ceremony that today no one will force the Georgian people to live in the shackles of a foreign country and foreign dogmas.

Staff, teachers and professors of Georgian universities hold a protest march against the law on foreign agents. According to the organizers, the country's government has repeatedly tried to suppress civil protests.

Deputies unanimously supported the appointment of former speaker Magomed Daudov to the post of chairman of the Chechen government. Daudov's candidacy must be approved by the regional parliament, but the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has already congratulated his colleague on his new position.

Telegram channels report that the house of the elder brother of the head of Ingushetia, the former head of the federal postal service department of the region, Magomed-Bashir Kalimatov, was searched. He was detained and transported to Moscow.

The former head of the government of the Chechen Republic, Muslim Khuchiev, became an assistant to Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced this in his Telegram channel.

A criminal case on the rehabilitation of Nazism was opened against a 19-year-old resident of Dagestan. According to the security forces, the young man cut off the red flags placed on the central streets of the village of Karabudakhkent. The flags were considered “symbols of the glory of Russia.” The case was initiated based on materials from the Federal Security Service.

Crimean Tatar political prisoner Ismet Ibragimov, serving a sentence in Dimitrovgrad prison in the Ulyanovsk region, needs dental treatment. The man is also bothered by stomach pain.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused the United States of “provocative events” that led to the severance of diplomatic relations between Georgia and Russia.