The Soviet District Court of Makhachkala refused to satisfy the claim of the deputy editor-in-chief of Chernovik Magomed Magomedov against the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The journalist asked that the actions of the police related to his detention be recognized as illegal, the Memorial Human Rights Center said.

The well-known Ukrainian rock band Okean Elzy performed a concert program in Baku at the Heydar Aliyev Palace. Greeting the audience, soloist Svyatoslav Vakarchuk thanked the Azerbaijani people for supporting Ukraine.

On the night of August 17, the Russian military shelled the villages of Staryye and Novye Atagi, Chiri-Yurt, as well as a number of settlements in the Vedensky district.

The Basmanny Court arrested the tenant of the exploded warehouse in Makhachkala, Eldar Nasrulayev, until October 14.

In Makhachkala, people blocked the street for the fourth time in a week due to power outages. The city administration each time promises to take the situation under control, but the problems remain unchanged.

After numerous appeals, Zarema Musayeva managed to achieve inpatient treatment at the Republican Clinical Hospital named after. Sh.Sh. Ependiev. At the end of the course of therapy, she was returned to the SIZO in Grozny.

The UN Human Rights Office demands from the Azerbaijani authorities the release of civil activist and economist Gubad Ibadoglu.

Residents of Makhachkala Magomed Ubaidulaev and Murat Aligadzhiev were fined 15,000 rubles each. Their defense managed to reclassify the criminal case for participation in the September protests against mobilization for the war with Ukraine.

In July, annual inflation accelerated in all regions of the North Caucasus Federal District. The strongest is in North Ossetia (by 1.5%–4.3% per annum). It is reported by Rosstat.

At dawn, the village of Alleroy, Kurchaloy District, was surrounded by military equipment. The "cleansing" began there. Several thousand military personnel took part in the operation (according to local residents, at least 7,000 people).