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Participants in a rally outside the Georgian parliament on the 541st day of continuous protests demanded the release of political prisoners and funding for the purchase of medications for children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

A suspect in preparing to blow up an energy facility has been detained in Novorossiysk.

The Adygea Prosecutor's Office has submitted to court the case of a teenager from Adygea, who is accused of justifying terrorism due to his comments on social media.

A resident of Chechnya's Vedensky District beat up a man who had come to a stadium with his wife, saying that women shouldn't be in public places. When he was taken into police custody, he also struck a security officer.

Vladimir Popov, 59, was released after spending nearly six years in prison on extremism charges. One of the six convicted Jehovah's Witnesses* from Gukovo remains in prison.

Statements made in public in 2024 have become the basis for criminal prosecution of a resident of Dagestan's Derbent district. The man faces up to five years in prison.

For three weeks, the authorities failed to provide assistance to Tuapse resident Anastasia Guchapsheva in repairing her home, which caught fire during a fire at an oil refinery in late April. The condition of the buildings, which were not properly dried out, only worsened during this time.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has added human rights activist Stanislav Dmitrievsky*, who has worked in the armed conflict zone in Chechnya since 1995, to the register of foreign agents.

Nikol Pashinyan stated that Armenia will never enter into conflict with Moscow, while his main opponents in the parliamentary elections focused on the country's future and the security of its residents.

At the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, a hearing on the Meydan TV case was disrupted after journalist Khayala Agayeva spoke out, declaring that the persecution of the publication’s employees was politically motivated and recalling corruption scandals involving Azerbaijani politicians.

Ilyas Karaketov was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 195 fighters from Karachay-Cherkessia have been officially recognized as killed.

6.5 kilometers of beaches in Anapa have been filled with imported sand, and there are no fuel oil emissions on the coast. The decision has been made to immediately remove beaches from the "danger zone" as soon as the sand is filled, the governor of the Krasnodar Krai reported. The blogger reiterated that sifted sand is better suited for beaches.

In Sukhumi, wreaths were lowered into the sea and a "Nart bonfire" was lit to commemorate the end of the Caucasian War. A procession was held in Damascus, Syria, and Circassians gathered in Aleppo to honor the memory of the fallen. Commemorative events were also held in cities and towns across the Caucasus republics.

Following a brawl between local residents in the village of Solodushino in the Nikolaevsky district, four participants were charged, and one victim was hospitalized. Representatives of the Roma community apologized for the incident, adding that the other side in the conflict was also at fault. Their opponents claimed the conflict had been going on for years.

Ingush theologian Akhmed Tangiyev, who previously served as deputy mufti of Karelia, was detained by security forces 10 days ago, sources reported, suggesting it was connected to reports of the detention of muftis who are members of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Russian Federation.

Security forces are conducting searches of the office and apartment of Andranik Tevanyan, chairman of the Mother Armenia party and second on the Prosperous Armenia party list. Tevanyan has been charged with treason, which he has called fabricated.

The Caucasian War has virtually disappeared from the academic agenda in Russia, but residents of the Caucasian republics retain interest, as evidenced by the demand for literature on this period. The politicization of the topic is reflected in the presentation of the material, which evolved in the late Soviet period.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced a 43-year-old Kislovodsk resident to 14 years in prison, finding him guilty of transmitting photos and videos of the "Visit Center of the Interactive Museum of History and Nature of the Park" to a terrorist representative.

Fatima Chotchaeva, a resident of the Malokarachaevsky district of Karachay-Cherkessia, was sentenced to eight years and six months in a general regime penal colony on charges of financing the armed group "Sabri Jamaat"*.