Doctoral student at Istanbul University, economist Fazil Gasimov has been on hunger strike for 31 days in the Baku pre-trial detention center. He only drinks water. This was stated by lawyer Rovshana Rahimli.

The US Department of Defense and their counterparts from Armenia began joint exercises Eagle Partner 2024 in Yerevan. American instructors will train Armenian peacekeepers for 10 days.

Today marks 15 years since the murder of human rights activist Natalya Estemirova. The Memorial Human Rights Center will hold an evening in her memory.

In the village of Bashin-Kali, Itum-Kalinsky district of Chechnya, gas cylinders exploded at the construction site of Dagspetsstroy LLC. As a result, five people died and 26 were injured.

Another Georgian fighter, Zurab Iashvili, died in Ukraine. He died in the Lvov military hospital as a result of his injury. Since the beginning of the “SVO”, more than 60 Georgian soldiers have died.

The capital of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Cherkessk, took third place in the ranking of housing construction per person with an indicator of 1.72 sq. m. Grozny was in 5th place - 1.55 sq. m. m. The most housing per person is being built in Krasnodar and Novorossiysk.

Alberd Chechenov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria who fought in Ukraine, was found guilty of theft and sentenced to a year and eight months in prison.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan invited French President Emmanuel Macron to visit Yerevan in September. This is stated in the congratulatory message of the Armenian leader on the occasion of the 235th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille.

The CSTO sees overt attempts by the West to shake up the situation in the Caucasus region and Iran, and to pull Armenia away from its allies. This was stated by the permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the organization, Viktor Vasiliev, meaning the Russian Federation by “ally”.

Mamuka Gatsarelia was transferred to the Mordovia colony. Earlier in the Russian Federation he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the fact that he, as a citizen of Georgia, fought for Ukraine.