Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has arrived in Azerbaijan on an official visit – this is his first trip to the country. The visit is taking place against the backdrop of intensified contacts between the countries on the issue of restoring the Syrian energy sector. During the reception of the foreign leader, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that he would supply gas to Syria.

The Press Council of Azerbaijan responded to the letter of the Union of Journalists of Russia, which expressed a protest in connection with the arrest in Baku of the heads of the Russian state media agency "Sputnik Azerbaijan" Igor Kartavych and Evgeny Belousov.

American Megga Osdoba Katz, known as an NGO development consultant and ex-OSCE representative, and in Georgia also as a yoga teacher, was not allowed to enter the country without explanation. On Facebook, she wrote that in the questionnaire, they simply marked the column "other" as the reason.

In a joint statement, 17 EU member states and the High Representative of the European Union strongly condemned "politically motivated arrests and detentions of leaders of opposition parties aimed at suppressing the political opposition in Georgia."

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Yalchin Rafiev took part in the Conference on the Restoration of Ukraine, which took place in Rome. In his speech, he emphasized that Azerbaijan supports the diplomatic settlement of the conflict, as well as the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, from the first days of the "SVO".

Over the past four days, 372 people with intestinal infection symptoms have been identified after drinking drinking water in the Magaramkent district of Dagestan. 357 of them are minors. 97 people were hospitalized with gastroenteritis.

The leader of the "Coalition for Change" Zurab Gircha Japaridze, sentenced on June 23 to 7 months in prison, commented on the alleged suicide attempt of the former head of the government of Adjara Tornike Ryzhvadze. The oppositionist considers the farewell letter published in the mass media to be genuine and believes that Ryzhvadze was subjected to severe pressure from unofficial structures.

In the first quarter of 2025, the real cash income of the population of the CBD increased by almost 14%. This is the second indicator in Russia, noted the head of the region, Kazbek Kokov, at a meeting with the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Alexander Novak.

The co-chairman of the movement for the protection of voters' rights "Voice" Grigory Melkonyants was sent to the Koma colony. In May, the Basmanny Court of Moscow sentenced him to five years in the colony.

A Baku court has arrested two men who fought in the Russian PMC Wagner – Ramil Aliyev and Ismail Hasanov – in a criminal case. They are suspected of mercenarism.