Russia considers the rhetoric from Armenia ultimatum and offensive. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Zakharova.

In December 2023, Team Against Torture lawyer Alexander Savin sent a petition to the Shali City Court of Chechnya to hold a medical commission for Zarema Musayeva. The woman has insulin-dependent type 2 diabetes and a number of chronic diseases. With such a state of health, according to the law, a person should not be kept in prison.

Security forces conducted a search in Bakhchisarai of the Crimean Tatar activist and member of the Audit Commission of the Kurultai of the Crimean Tatar people Eden Dudakov. He was taken away for interrogation.

In the case of the murder of Kurban Dalgatov, two more employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were detained - operative Timur Gugaev and ex-deputy head of the criminal investigation department of the Sovetsky District Department of Internal Affairs of Makhachkala Arsen Abdulkadirov.

Chairman of the Union of Journalists of Azerbaijan Elchin Shikhly said that there is no institution left in the country to protect the rights of journalists. According to him, in the country, independent media workers are perceived rather as a harmful element.

The introduction of visas for Russians and the restriction of direct flights could be perceived as confrontation. This opinion was shared by Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili. Previously, she proposed introducing a visa regime for Russian citizens for a period of three months.

Arsen Abkhairov, a defendant in the Red Guard case of Hizb ut-Tahrir, was transferred from a prison in the Krasnoyarsk Territory to correctional colony No. 8 in Ulan-Ude. Previously, the man was sentenced to 13 years in prison.

The Azerbaijani authorities must release employees of the publication Toplum TV. This is one of the important independent media covering political topics, investigations into corruption and irregularities during voting in the presidential elections in February. This call was made by the Committee to Protect Journalists (located in New York).

Russian border guards will leave Yerevan airport on August 1. They will be replaced by Armenian colleagues, said Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

The release of Mikheil Saakashvili and the cessation of air traffic with Russia are the conditions for the normalization of relations between Ukraine and Georgia. This was stated by the chairman of the Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, David Arakhamia. He also called on Tbilisi “not to help the aggressor avoid sanctions” and called the Georgian government “pro-Kremlin.”