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A military court in Moscow sentenced Sergei Davidis, co-chairman of the Memorial Human Rights Center*, to six years in prison in absentia, finding that a repost on his social media page was a justification for terrorism.

Five drones were shot down in the Rostov region and one in Kuban, the Defense Ministry reported. The authorities reported no damage or casualties. Volgograd airport resumed operations.

Vadim Grishkin was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 284 fighters from Kabardino-Balkaria have been officially recognized as killed.

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office filed a lawsuit in the Soviet District Court of Makhachkala to recognize former State Duma deputy Magomed Gadzhiev* and his relatives as an extremist organization, demanding that their real estate worth more than 2 billion rubles be transferred to the state.

The victims appealed the return of the case of the head of the Ilovlinsky district, Ivan Gel, to the prosecutor's office; the department itself did not agree with the judge's decision.

The defense of the former state minister of Nagorno-Karabakh Ruben Vardanyan lodged a protest with the panel of judges, but it was not considered. Testimony in court was given by citizens of Azerbaijan who suffered during the military actions in the Karabakh conflict zone.

To ensure flight safety, the operation of the Volgograd airport has been limited.

Rostov-on-Don authorities accepted 268 applications for financial assistance from city residents following the drone attack on August 14.

Ukrainian citizens convicted by a military court in Rostov-on-Don were transferred from the Rostov pretrial detention center to Grozny before the appeal. They had previously reported torture.

The court sentenced Azerbaijani native Mehriban Lukinskaya to five years in prison on charges of confidential cooperation with a foreign state.

More than 150 residents of South Ossetia have signed an appeal to the president of the republic, Alan Gagloev, asking him to provide housing to former military man Taimuraz Tuaev, who became disabled after a stroke.

The authorities of the regions of southern Russia have publicly acknowledged that more than 7,250 soldiers were killed in combat operations in Ukraine, including 3,644 from the Southern Federal District and 3,607 from the North Caucasus Federal District.

Protesters in Tbilisi blocked Rustaveli Avenue near the parliament on the 265th day of continuous protests and announced new actions in support of political prisoners.

The first book-album “Artsakh: Endangered Heritage”, published on the initiative of the Artsakh Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church in three languages, contains information about 48 monuments in Nagorno-Karabakh.

The discussion around the statement of the Ingush imam about male waiters is "an attempt to destabilize the situation in the region," said the republic's minister for external relations and national policy. This statement was made after Telegram channels criticized the passive position of the Ingush authorities.

Viktor Andreyev from the Digorsky district was killed in the combat zone. Since the start of the Russian operation in Ukraine, the authorities have publicly named at least 476 North Ossetian servicemen killed there.

An energy engineer at an industrial enterprise in Rostov-on-Don has been sentenced to a long prison term on charges of treason.

Relations between Armenia and Iran will be elevated to the level of strategic partnership, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said after a meeting with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Yerevan. Armenia and Iran also agreed to build a second bridge on their common border.

A brief appeal against the sentence of Zarema Musayeva has already been filed. She decided to appeal it after she read the reasoned part of the decision of the Shali court, which sentenced her to four years in a penal colony.

Problems related to the increasingly frequent disconnections of mobile Internet arise when paying in stores, calling a taxi, working, trying to contact relatives. In some areas, there is no mobile Internet for a long time, residents of the Volgograd Region said. The authorities called for an understanding attitude to the situation.