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Protesters in Tbilisi block traffic outside the Georgian parliament demanding new parliamentary elections. Municipal elections in Georgia will be held without OSCE/ODIHR observers as the Georgian government has not extended an invitation.

Mobile internet outages in Makhachkala continued today, with the public access point on Lenin Square having an extremely limited range, city residents said. They complained about difficulties calling a taxi, buying tickets, and making calls.

The body of a seven-year-old boy missing in Chechnya, who had been searched for since August 8, was found today in a river. Volunteers from Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Stavropol, and Ingushetia helped rescuers and security forces in the search.

Krasnodar activist Daria Polyudova is facing pressure in a Kostroma colony; she was attacked by another prisoner.

The defense of Bahruz Samedov, who was convicted of treason, filed more than 20 motions during the hearing at the Baku Court of Appeal, but the judge rejected them, including a request to hold the trial in open mode.

An investigator suggested that a witness in the case of Seda Suleimanova's disappearance take a polygraph test in Chechnya.

Moscow said that Azerbaijan's arms supplies to Ukraine would worsen the situation. The lifting of the embargo on arms supplies to Ukraine was reported with reference to unnamed sources.

Wide publicity surrounding the beating and insult of a kindergarten student led to the opening of a criminal case.

The court granted the claim of Rosprirodnadzor against the owner and charterer of one of the tankers that sank in the Black Sea, the Volgoneft-212.

Residents of the 16-story building on Opolchenskaya Street, where the UAV debris fell, were allowed to return to their apartments, the mayor's office reported on its Telegram channel.

The Dagestan Muslim Spiritual Directorate has repeatedly spoken out against Abdulzhalil Afandi Karanaisky, who opposes the muftiate; hostile rhetoric has led to an attempt to remove the imam of the Juma Mosque in Buinaksk. Theoretically, the community can replace the imam, but the muftiate seeks to control imams through appointments, analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" indicated.

Alexander Ulissky was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 90 fighters from Adygea have been officially recognized as killed.

The road proposed by the authorities after the bridge collapse is dangerous and inaccessible to most residents of the trans-river part of Lermontovo, even ambulances and garbage trucks refuse to go along it, they said, demanding that the issue of access to the infrastructure be resolved. The head of the district promised to consider an alternative route.

On the night of August 13, air defense alert systems intercepted 46 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles on Russian territory. Half of them were shot down in the south - in Krasnodar Krai, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts.

Temporary restrictions on the operation of Volgograd airport, introduced at night to ensure flight safety, have been lifted.

Air defense forces repelled an aerial attack by drones in the north of the Rostov region.

The wreckage of the drone fell on the territory of an oil refinery in the Krasnodar region.

An appeals court in Tbilisi has upheld the sentence of former co-investment fund head Giorgi Bachiashvili, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison in a case involving the embezzlement of bitcoins belonging to Bidzina Ivanishvili.

Drone debris fell on the roof of a multi-story building in Volgograd, residents were evacuated.

A court in Kuban fined local resident Anton Petrenko one thousand rubles for singing along to a song in Ukrainian at a birthday party. Petrenko apologized to his fellow citizens, saying he did not want to offend anyone.