Azerbaijani army units prevented an attempt by the Karabakh military to lay trenches near the line of contact in the Lachin region. This was stated by the country's defense department.

The Ministry of Defense of Armenia announces the upcoming joint Armenian-American exercises "EAGLE PARTNER 2023". The ministry clarified that the military event will be held in preparation for participation in international peacekeeping missions.

The Investigative Committee refused to open criminal proceedings against a serviceman from Nalchik, Dmitry Akhmaev. This is reported by the media project “Kavkaz. Realities".

The Prosecutor's Office of the Grozny District opened a criminal case No. 191145 on the fact of illegal detention (Article 127, part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) of a disabled person of the second group, police veteran Salman Zelimkhanovich Khamzatov, born in 1935.

The human rights center "Memorial" has published a regular report on the human rights situation in the North Caucasus Federal District. The new bulletin, entitled "The North Caucasus: the view of human rights activists," focuses on events in Chechnya.

Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Chechen Minister of Culture Aishat Kadyrova with a medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd Class.

A conscript from Karachay-Cherkessia, Rezuan Bostanov, refused to take the summons and was fined 100,000 rubles for evading the army. This is reported by the media project “Kavkaz. Realities".

A native of Ingushetia, Abdul-Malik Albagachiev, who was serving time in the Astrakhan correctional colony No. 6, used the traditional way of protesting prisoners - sewing up his mouth.

On August 9, protests against power outages began in Makhachkala - city residents blocked roads, demanding that the lights be returned to their apartments. August became a test not only for the city's housing and utilities system and the republic's leadership - some tried to test the capabilities of social networks to mobilize people for mass riots.

Under the sanctions that the West is increasingly imposing on Russia, the Kremlin is increasingly offering Georgia its friendship. And if the Georgian opposition indignantly rejects these offers, then the ruling party, like a pragmatic girl, is trying to sit on two chairs: on the one hand, it is striving to join Europe, on the other, it does not want to spoil relations with its rich and pugnacious neighbor.