In Karachay-Cherkessia, two policemen were killed and four more were injured. An armed attack on a traffic police squad occurred at night. Five attackers were killed, the local Ministry of Internal Affairs reports.

The Malgobek City Court of Ingushetia extended the arrest of Leila Gatagazheva for two months. The 21-year-old mother of two is accused of aiding ISIS (a banned terrorist organization).

Today in Tbilisi there will be protests again against the law on foreign agents. A large-scale protest against the government's actions will begin on Republic Square. “Yes to Europe, no to Russian law” - this is the slogan of the protesters. The action was initiated by public organizations, which were joined by opposition parties.

The Khasavyurt City Court sentenced policemen Shamil Aliyev and Ramazan Saipulaev to suspended sentences. They were found guilty of abuse of power with the use of violence and falsification of evidence, the Team Against Torture reported.

The Kiev District Court in Simferopol extended until August 3 the arrest of Crimean Tatars from Dzhankoy and Dzhankoy district - Enver Khalilayev, Nariman Ametov, Ali Mamutov, activist Arsen Kashka and the imam of the mosque in the village of Lobanovo Vakhid Mustafayev.

The head of the Meclis.info website Imran Aliyev became a defendant in the second criminal case. He was charged under Article 206.3.1 (smuggling - in case of repetition), and before that - under Article 206.3.2 of the Criminal Code (smuggling by a group of persons). The sanctions for both articles are the same - imprisonment from 5 to 8 years.

A draft law on sanctions against 44 high-ranking officials of Azerbaijan has been submitted to the US Congress. The reason is their violation of human rights, carrying out repressions against the opposition, activists and journalists.

If a bill on foreign agents is adopted in Georgia, the United States will consider the possibility of reviewing relations with Tbilisi. This was reported by a US Senate group in a letter addressed to Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Kobakhidze.

A court in Grozny declared illegal the investigator’s decision to refuse to provide case materials to the relatives of Movsar Umarov, a native of Chechnya who was kidnapped in 2020 and disappeared without a trace.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, at a press conference in Berlin with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, expressed hope that a peace treaty will be signed between Azerbaijan and Armenia this year. According to Aliyev, there are very good opportunities to achieve peace and Baku is ready to cooperate.