The explosion of a gas station in Makhachkala killed 27 people. The Center for Disaster Medicine reports this to Interfax. The number of victims reached 66 people.

The Azerbaijan Popular Front Party called on the international community to take sanctions measures against the country's authorities.

In anticipation of water and electricity, which are still missing, more than 200 residents of Dagestan took to the Astrakhan-Makhachkala federal highway. As a result, the Interior Ministry was forced to suspend traffic for 470 km.

Chechnya, Tomsk Oblast and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug are leaders in the ranking of regions in terms of road accidents. They recorded the smallest number of accidents with victims in the first half of 2023. Rating outsiders - Tuva, Omsk region and Kalmykia, according to RIA Novosti.

Activists of the Chechen opposition movement "1ADAT" held a protest action in Jordan. In the capital, Amman, they renamed Kadyrov Street to Johor Dudayev. They reported this on their TG channel and posted photos and videos.

North Ossetia, Dagestan, Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria were in the top regions with the highest number of divorces per thousand inhabitants in the first half of 2023. It is reported by Rosstat.

117 representatives of the Crimean Tatar people are serving their sentences in colonies and prisons of the Russian Federation on politically motivated cases. This was stated by the head of the Crimean Tatar resource center Eskender Bariev.

In the Cherek region of Kabardino-Balkaria, a group of nine tourists fell under a rockfall. This happened in the area of the alpine camp "Bezengi" at an altitude of 3500 meters.

On August 8, the Chechen Republic and the "DPR" signed an agreement on cooperation and the recognition of Mariupol and Grozny as sister cities.

The head of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, sent a request to the Russian government for help with the restoration of electricity supply.