The third President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, criticized Transparency International Georgia after the organization did not include him in its list of political prisoners. The updated TI report says there are now 91 political prisoners in the country, but the former president's name is not among them.

For the third day in Ingushetia, the operation to search for local resident Bekhan Aushev, who allegedly drowned in the Assa River, has been ongoing. In addition to rescuers, more than 100 volunteers joined her. According to the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, employees of the Ershi search and rescue team are working on the spot - ten people and two units of equipment. They examine the river bed, water area and coastal strip.

The leader of the opposition party “For Georgia” Giorgi Gakharia supported the European Union’s intention to seek from the new Syrian authorities the withdrawal of recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Last night, Ukrainian drones attacked two large Wildberries logistics centers at once - in Krasnodar and Nevinnomyssk. According to Russian authorities, one person was killed and at least ten others were injured. The governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Veniamin Kondratyev, said that the deceased worked at one of the enterprises in Armavir, where debris from a downed drone fell. Ten more people were injured in a strike on a warehouse complex in Krasnodar.

While attention in Armenia is focused on the work of the new convocation of parliament and disputes over parliamentary mandates, processes are unfolding outside the country that could have a much greater impact on its future. Turkologist Varuzhan Geghamyan drew attention to this. According to him, a “vacation lull” has arrived in Armenia, and the main topic remains the opening of the National Assembly.

The Kremlin said it had no information about the alleged meeting of former high-ranking officials of Germany and Russia, which, according to Western media reports, could take place in Baku. “No, I don’t have any information about this meeting, so I have nothing to tell you,” said Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, answering a question from journalists. The reason for the comment was the publication of the British The Times .

State Duma deputy Alexander Tolmachev sharply criticized Azerbaijan’s plans to develop a strategic dialogue with Germany, essentially calling into question Baku’s right to an independent foreign policy course. The reason was the statement by President Ilham Aliyev about plans to take relations with Berlin to a new level.

The Supreme Court of North Ossetia rejected the appeal of the defense of 27-year-old resident of Vladikavkaz Zarina Tomaeva and retained her preventive measure in the form of detention. Lawyers insisted on transferring the accused to house arrest, citing her state of health.

The lawyer of the man detained after a conflict with a foreign tourist at the Agarani Estate hotel in Kakheti presented his version of the events that, according to him, preceded the fight. The defense claims that the conflict began long before the video published online and was provoked by the actions of the tourists themselves. According to lawyer Lasha Kapanadze, during the wedding celebration, women who were on the balcony of the third floor of the hotel shouted “Bitter” to the newlyweds.

Ilham Aliyev flew to Berlin on an official visit at the invitation of Chancellor Friedrich Merz. During the visit, he held talks with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the Chancellor. One of the main topics of the negotiations was energy. The parties also discussed transport corridors, economic cooperation and the peace process between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

A basketball sports school will be created in the Chechen Republic. It will bear the name of Uvays Akhtaev, the famous Soviet basketball player of Chechen origin and one of the tallest players in the history of world basketball. The Chechen authorities announced the creation of the school. According to them, the decision is part of the reform of the regional sports training system.

Risan Saralieva from the village of Geldagan mastered welding and artistic metal forging - a craft that is traditionally considered male in Chechnya - and turned it into her own business. Today she makes furniture, railings, swings and decorative structures, and the cost of some orders reaches 700 thousand rubles. As Chechnya Today writes, Saralieva came to the workshop to help her husband.

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the death of at least 9,450 military personnel from the regions of the Southern and North Caucasus federal districts has been publicly confirmed. Such data is provided by the Caucasian Knot, which conducts editorial calculations based on public reports from government agencies, law enforcement agencies and other official sources. This is not an official report from the Russian Ministry of Defense, but an editorial calculation.

Dagestan, which for several years remained one of the fastest growing tourist destinations in Russia, recorded a decrease in tourist flow for the first time in several years. In the first half of the year, 719 thousand people visited the republic - 15% less than a year earlier. In the previous few years, Dagestan was one of the main destinations for domestic tourism, with interest in it rising sharply after a reduction in the number of available foreign routes for Russian travelers.

Georgian police continue to investigate the conflict that occurred on the evening of July 18 at the Agaranis Mamuli hotel in Telavi, where a wedding was taking place and a group of Russian tourists were vacationing. One of the guests of the celebration, Georgy Chigladze, was detained in connection with the case. He is accused of intentionally causing minor bodily harm. The parties to the conflict and their representatives continue to publicly present conflicting versions of what happened.