Azerbaijan and Armenia are on the threshold of peace for the first time since the restoration of their independence. This was announced by Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov, speaking in Austria at a special meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council.

On the morning of June 6, 2001, two armored personnel carriers arrived at the outskirts of the village of Mairtup, Kurchaloy district. At this time, a local resident, born in 1979, was grazing sheep a few hundred meters from the settlement. According to relatives, shortly before this, the Russian military captured and took away two of his brothers.

On the night of June 6, the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station was broken. The dam is located upstream of Kherson along the Dnieper in the village of Novaya Kakhovka. The local population is being evacuated from flooded areas. Russia and Ukraine blame each other for what happened.

The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people has submitted documents to the State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience of Ukraine to secure its legal status as a representative body of the Crimean Tatar people.

The Gudermes City Court of Chechnya found former members of the National Guard Aslan Dukaev and Bekhan Abdurashidov guilty of illegally detaining Alexei Kardashov, a resident of Dagestan. The security forces were sentenced to two years probation under the article on abuse of power, excluding the article on kidnapping from the charge.

The destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station in the Kherson region of Ukraine, with further catastrophic consequences for the population, is a war crime on the part of the Russian authorities. This was stated by Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili.

Ingushetia and the KChR are named the most lagging regions in terms of the share of residents with incomes above the national average (45 thousand rubles). Those are 4.4% and 6.7% of citizens, respectively.

In 2022, Georgia provided assistance to Ukraine in the amount of about $14.5 million. This is stated in the government's report submitted to Parliament.

The Presnensky Court of Moscow extended the term of arrest of a lawyer, a native of Chechnya, Timur Idalov, until September 12. Earlier, he was charged under Part 1 of Art. 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (threat of violence against a representative of authority).

In the first quarter of 2023, Ingushetia and the KBR revealed the lowest average salary in Russia. According to Rosstat, it is 26 thousand rubles.