The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said during a briefing that the arguments about the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers from Nagorno-Karabakh are “absolutely incomprehensible”, especially against the background of the current extremely difficult humanitarian situation.

On August 1, the Georgian authorities imposed restrictions on the export and re-export of cars manufactured in the United States to the Russian Federation. From September 26, similar measures will be introduced for cars imported from Europe.

On August 2, 2001, at about midnight, in the village of Kalinin, Grozny, in an armored personnel carrier, Russian servicemen arrived at the house of Zaman Markhiyev.

The departments of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Stavropol Territory, Ingushetia, the KChR and North Ossetia announced storm warnings.

Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin held an operational meeting in Essentuki (Stavropol Territory), at which the results of the work of the IC units in the North Caucasus for 6 months of 2023 were summed up.

The Museum-Institute of the Armenian Genocide appealed to the Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General on the Prevention of Genocide Alice Vairim Nderit about the situation in Karabakh.

International organizations that protect the rights of journalists came out in support of the correspondent of Crimean Solidarity and Grani.ru Kulamet Ibraimov and the correspondent of the publication Grati and human rights activist Lutfiye Zudiyeva.

Another protest action took place in Tbilisi. Representatives and supporters of the opposition United National Movement party gathered outside the Government Chancellery demanding the release of ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili.

A 21-year-old girl was detained for attempting to set fire to the military commissariat in the capital of Adygea, Maykop.

On August 1, 2001, early in the morning in the first half of August, the Russian military took Satsita Sadykova, a mother of two children, from a 9-storey building on Olimpiyskiy Proyezd in Grozny.