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Traffic is temporarily closed on sections of roads in ten districts of Dagestan due to landslides, rockfalls, and rising water levels in rivers after heavy rains. Transportation links with 51 settlements were interrupted after a landslide occurred on the "Gunib-Tsurib" highway.

The Yasamal District Court of Baku began hearing the lawsuit of convicted researcher of Talysh culture Iqbal Abilov against four Azerbaijani media outlets for violating the presumption of innocence and defamation. The court granted the defense's request to involve a translator from the Talysh language in the proceedings, while rejecting the request to allow Abilov to sit next to his lawyer. The defendants did not appear at the hearing.

Assistance for applications from residents of Dagestan affected by the flood was received by 65.5 thousand people, which is less than 24% of the total number of applicants.

The Central Election Commission of Armenia returned to the Prosecutor's Office the request to initiate criminal proceedings against Narek Karapetyan, who heads the electoral list of the "Strong Armenia" bloc, as well as against four other candidates from the bloc. The decision was made because the powers of the candidates for deputies expired on July 4.

This is about the seizure of a land plot and buildings on the shore of Lake Sevan.

The court in Nalchik sentenced serviceman Ravil Sadikov to one year in prison, finding him guilty of desertion.

The editor-in-chief of "Sapa", Alina Djikaeva, admitted her guilt in transferring money to a police officer for information about incidents for subsequent publication. She explained that she admitted her guilt after the wording about a crime committed by a group of individuals was removed from the case.

The budget of Kabardino-Balkaria would have significantly more funds from tourism if officials had developed a targeted program for its development. However, at the current stage, vacationers face broken roads, dumps, and poor infrastructure in the republic, noted representatives of the local tourism industry interviewed by "Caucasian Knot."

Dmitry Kusmachev was killed in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 427 fighters from Kabardino-Balkaria have been officially recognized as killed.

Huge queues at legal car services in the southern regions of Russia are forcing drivers to turn to "gray" installers, who do not provide safety guarantees. The mass transition to gas will not solve the fuel crisis due to a lack of infrastructure, analysts noted.

In the villages of Khojavend and Shusha districts, 210 members of the families of forced migrants returned today.

Kuban drivers are massively converting their cars to gas against the backdrop of gasoline shortages. In local service centers, the queues for the installation of gas cylinder equipment have stretched until autumn, and some companies have stopped taking new clients.

Drones attacked tankers in the Taganrog Bay today, resulting in two people being injured.

Residents of the village of Gulli in the Kaytagsky district recorded a video appeal to the acting head of Dagestan, Fedor Shchukin, demanding the closure of the lime production plant and sending a commission to the district to check the officials.

The criminal case of the former CEO of "Teploseti" of Stavropol, Vladimir Vdovin, accused of receiving a bribe on a particularly large scale, will be considered by the Industrial District Court.

Messages from vacationers about contact with fuel oil on the beaches of Kuban are hardly isolated; repeated pollution is expected even after cleaning, say ecologists who warned against prolonged contact with petroleum products.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced resident Ilya Mezhanov from Horlivka to 22 years in prison, finding him guilty of treason and participation in the activities of a terrorist community.

In Abkhazia, at the beginning of July, Sabantuy was celebrated and "Days of Samara" were held. The events coincided with the memorial dates of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict of 1993. Analysts, as well as some residents of Abkhazia, consider such a combination of events inappropriate, but they doubted the presence of malicious intent.

Debris from a drone fell on the territory of the enterprise in the Seversky district, causing a fire.

Russian strikes on SOCAR facilities in Ukraine are viewed by Baku as part of a broader set of disagreements and an attempt to coerce Azerbaijan into abandoning its own foreign policy course, analysts interviewed by "Caucasian Knot" believe.