Former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili commented on the upcoming elections, which will be held on October 26.

A third lawsuit against the law on foreign agents has been filed with the Constitutional Court of Georgia. The authors are 38 opposition members of the parliament. Earlier, similar actions were taken by President Salome Zurabishvili and 121 Georgian NGOs.

Co-chairman of the Memorial Center, political prisoner Oleg Orlov was taken from pretrial detention center No. 2 in Syzran to an unknown destination. This was reported by his lawyer. The pretrial detention center refused to explain where and why the human rights activist was taken.

A Moscow court has arrested 23-year-old Timur Bazhaev until September 26. A criminal case has been opened against the son of Chechen billionaire Musa Bazhaev under the article on the use of violence against a government official.

The words "burn down the State Duma" in a comment from 2020 became the reason for the criminal prosecution of a 44-year-old resident of Vladikavkaz named Eduard. He is accused under the article on calls for terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).

63% of the Georgian population believes that the country is developing in the wrong direction. In addition, only 29% believe that the ruling Georgian Dream party deserves to be re-elected, and 71% believe that it is time to give another party a chance. This was reported in a survey of citizens of the country by Edison Research.

In Simferopol, a woman was filming a woman and a man in a car on her phone. Her attention was drawn to the Crimean Tatar flag on the windshield. She accompanied the filming with obscene language and threats.

The Russian Interior Ministry has put journalist from North Ossetia Ruslan Totrov on the list of terrorist extremists and put him on the wanted list. He had previously been fined several times for criticizing the Russian authorities.

In the Bondi cave in western Georgia, archaeologists have found the skeleton of a man (presumably a 12-year-old child) who lived about 10,000 years ago.

The Moscow Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under the article "Use of violence against a government official" against 23-year-old Timur Bazhaev. He is the son of Chechen billionaire Musa Bazhaev.