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The first session of the Armenian parliament of the ninth convocation, formed as a result of the June elections, is scheduled for August 2.

The court in Telavi released Georgy Chigladze on bail, who was detained after a conflict with Russian-speaking tourists during his brother's wedding. In court, Chigladze stated that he regrets what happened.

Former mayor of Kaspiysk Boris Gontsov, suspected of receiving large bribes, ignored all complaints and appeals from residents, and treated his immediate subordinates rudely and arrogantly.

All Lukoil gas stations in Astrakhan will be open from July 22, the gasoline dispensing limit has been increased to 40 liters per person, said Governor Igor Babushkin.

The Nalchik garrison military court sentenced serviceman Ahmed Apajev to five years in a penal colony for desertion during mobilization.

Khalid Kurbanov and Ayubkhan Gamzaev from the Suleiman-Stalsky district were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have acknowledged at least 2043 servicemen from Dagestan killed there.

The former head of Kaspiysk is suspected of receiving a bribe in the form of five apartments worth over 18 million rubles, investigators reported.

Claims that Russian-speaking female tourists allegedly insulted wedding participants in Telavi and splashed water on the equipment do not justify the violence against one of them, social media users pointed out.

Against the backdrop of the fuel crisis, Kuban entrepreneurs have become actively interested in compact oil processing units. In the first half of the year, the number of trades for their purchase increased more than twofold.

Anton Boyko killed in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 443 fighters from Kabardino-Balkaria have been officially recognized as killed.

The chief specialist of the Islamic Medicine Center, Adam Elzhurkaev, publicly reprimanded a resident of Chechnya who was detained by security forces for providing occult services, according to a report by the state television channel "Grozny".

The colony administration has intensified pressure on imprisoned Azerbaijani activists and journalists who sent an appeal to the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, urging her to raise issues of political prisoners and media freedom during her visit to Azerbaijan, relatives of the activists reported.

A seven-year-old girl was injured in Sochi due to falling debris from a drone.

A march took place in Tbilisi, where participants expressed support for Giorgi Chigladze, who was arrested for beating a Russian-speaking tourist in one of the hotels in Telavi.

Dagestan has become the leader in the country in gasoline prices, reported the republican TV channel. Local residents, commenting on its video report on social media, demanded that the authorities and the antimonopoly service explain the reasons for the high fuel prices and take measures to reduce them.

In the Milyutinsky district of the Rostov region, a forest caught fire as a result of drone debris falling.

Authorities plan to organize a landfill in the Tuapsinsky district right at the site of flowing streams and near the river, which poses a threat to people's health and the environment, residents of the village of Defanovka indicated.

Five teenagers in Alagir filled a pothole with gravel that the relevant services had not fixed for more than two years. Residents of North Ossetia, commenting on the teenagers' initiative on social media, called their actions commendable and criticized local officials.

In Armenia, agricultural producers blocked the Yerevan – Yeraskh highway due to local enterprises refusing to buy tomatoes and cucumbers from them.

The Abkhazian Government Communications Agency reported the repulsion of a large-scale cyberattack on state and tourism portals. The attackers, according to the agency, aimed to undermine the image of Abkhazia.