Moscow respects the sovereign right of Armenia to withdraw from the CSTO. This is how the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov commented on the words of the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan about the possible termination of Yerevan's membership in the organization.

A Yekaterinburg court has arrested Mutvala Shikhlinsky, son of the head of the Azerbaijani diaspora in the Urals, Shahin Shikhlinsky, until September 14. He was charged under the article "use of violence against a government official."

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said there is a high probability that the country will leave the pro-Russian Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). According to him, this scenario is more likely than Yerevan resuming its participation in the bloc.

Three teenagers in Chechnya were released after their fathers signed contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry. The schoolchildren were held in the Interior Ministry department for more than six months without access to lawyers, charges, or the opportunity to meet with their families. 16-year-olds Mansur Shabazov, Said Idigov, and Elbrus Saidaev were abducted back in December 2024, according to Memorial Human Rights Center employees. For more details, watch our video.

A court in Stavropol sentenced seven participants in the riots at the Makhachkala airport, sentencing them to 14 to 15 years in a maximum security penal colony.

A criminal case has been opened against the son of the head of the Azerbaijani diaspora in Yekaterinburg, Mutvala Shikhlinsky. This was announced by the president of the Sverdlovsk Region Bar Association, Igor Putintsev. The Leninsky District Court clarified that the charges were brought under the article on violence against a government official.

In the Stavropol Territory, in the city of Nevinnomyssk, a court sentenced four residents of Dagestan, finding them guilty of desecrating the Eternal Flame memorial. The young people received real prison terms - up to 2.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.

PFL Champion Timur Khizriev was attacked in Makhachkala. The incident occurred on Daniyalov Street, where two unknown masked men ambushed the athlete near his home.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has refused to support the initiative of the family of Ruben Vardanyan, the former head of the unrecognized Karabakh government, to appeal to former US President Donald Trump with a request for his release. This was reported by the Armenian newspaper "Hraparak".

The Memorial Human Rights Center recognized Eduard Asanov, a citizen of the Russian Federation and Ukraine, a Crimean Tatar, as a political prisoner. In July 2024, he was sentenced to 8 years and 6 months in prison on charges of participating in an illegal armed group.