Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin held an operational meeting in Essentuki (Stavropol Territory), at which the results of the work of the IC units in the North Caucasus for 6 months of 2023 were summed up.

The Museum-Institute of the Armenian Genocide appealed to the Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General on the Prevention of Genocide Alice Vairim Nderit about the situation in Karabakh.

International organizations that protect the rights of journalists came out in support of the correspondent of Crimean Solidarity and Grani.ru Kulamet Ibraimov and the correspondent of the publication Grati and human rights activist Lutfiye Zudiyeva.

Another protest action took place in Tbilisi. Representatives and supporters of the opposition United National Movement party gathered outside the Government Chancellery demanding the release of ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili.

A 21-year-old girl was detained for attempting to set fire to the military commissariat in the capital of Adygea, Maykop.

On August 1, 2001, early in the morning in the first half of August, the Russian military took Satsita Sadykova, a mother of two children, from a 9-storey building on Olimpiyskiy Proyezd in Grozny.

Own correspondent of the first Caucasian independent magazine "DOSH" closed at the end of 2022 in Kabardino-Balkaria Timur Kuashev, who disappeared on the night of July 31, 2014, was found dead on the morning of August 1 near the village of Khasanya, in the suburbs of Nalchik.

The court in Baku did not satisfy the defense's petition for house arrest and left the leader of the Azerbaijan Democracy and Prosperity Party, Gubad Ibadoglu, in custody.

Zarema Musayeva, sentenced in Chechnya to five and a half years, is awaiting an appeal in the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and hopes for the best. This was reported by Novaya Gazeta.

The US has said it continues to believe that a peace deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia is "within reach."