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Tension on Melikishvili Ave as Georgia Protests gathered near the opening of GD’s mayoral HQ - just hours after 12 political prisoners were sentenced. GD MEP Beka Odisharia confronted protesters, hurling insults & swearing as they called him “Russia’s slave”

Dozens gathered at the Tbilisi City Court to hear the final speeches of 11 individuals arrested during the Georgia Protests

Part of protesters blocked Tbilisi's Rustaveli Avenue near Rustaveli Theater, some 300 meters from parliament, usual rally place, after police detained at least 16 during protests earlier today.

Police reported detaining 16 on Tbilisi’s Rustaveli Avenue, as activists gathered outside parliament on a tense day marked by protest-related guilty verdicts and the reconvening of Georgian Dream’s one-party legislature for its fall plenary session

Judge Tamar Mchedlishvili sentenced all 8 prisoners of conscience to imprisonment.The qualifications of charges have been changed from original ones

Russian citizen Anton Chechin who was arrested in connection with the Georgia Protests was sentenced to 8 years and 6 months in prison

Georgia Dream-controlled Prosecutor General’s Office announced that several heads of non-governmental organizations have been summoned for questioning as witnesses in an ongoing criminal investigation. According to the statement, prosecutors are investigating cases of ‘sabotage, attempted sabotage under aggravating circumstances, assistance to foreign or foreign-controlled organizations in hostile activities, and the mobilization of funds aimed against Georgia’s constitutional order and national security.’

The OSCE will close the Minsk process and related structures as of September 1, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry reported. The statement noted that all decisions previously adopted within the OSCE regarding the former Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict are invalid and do not apply

India blocked Azerbaijan's accession to the SCO, and Pakistan blocked Armenia's accession.

Pashinyan and Aliyev meet in China

Putin at Russian security council discussed relations with CIS countries

The Turkish Foreign Ministry strongly condemned Netanyahu's statements about recognizing the Armenian genocide, calling it an attempt to cover up the bloodshed in Gaza.

Georgia’s right-libertarian party Girchi has nominated its leader, Iago Khvichia, as a candidate for Tbilisi mayor in the October 4 local elections, which many opposition parties are boycotting in protest

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu became the first head of an Israeli government to recognize the Ottoman Empire's mass killings of Armenians that happened 110 years ago as a genocide, the Times of Israel reported

The Tbilisi City Court has granted the Prosecutor’s Office’s motion to freeze the bank accounts of 7 CSOs as part of a sabotage investigation. Authorities allege the groups bought gas masks, goggles, respirators, masks and pepper spray for protesters

Ilham Aliyev: The Organization of Turkic States currently has great potential. Azerbaijan has always been committed to strengthening this organization. It began its activities as a kind of advisory group, council, group of countries, and then transformed. It has great potential.

Ilham Aliyev: We have supported and continue to support the territorial integrity of Ukraine from the first days of Russia's intervention in Ukraine.

Ilham Aliyev: There have been many rumors in some media outlets and on some websites about Azerbaijan's plans to occupy Zangezur and cut the border between Iran and Armenia. This is completely false. We have no such intention. In any case, if we wanted to do it, we would have done it. It was very easy to do it in November 2020. It was very easy to do it over the past five years. It's only 40 kilometers, it wouldn't take much time from a military point of view. You just come and take it from both sides - from Nakhchivan and from this side of Azerbaijan.

Ilham Aliyev: After the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917, the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was established. It was the first democratic republic in the Muslim world, established in May 1918. However, it existed only until April 1920 - at that time the Russian army entered Azerbaijan and occupied it. The Bolsheviks who made the revolution in 1917 made false promises to the people. There were slogans: "factories for workers, land for peasants, freedom for the people". We established our own state, but the Bolsheviks took this state from us. In April 1920, the Russian army entered Azerbaijan and occupied it. Just a few months later - in November of that year, the government of Soviet Russia decided to take Zangezur - the territory we call "Western Zangezur" - from Azerbaijan and give it to Armenia. Thus, Azerbaijan was divided into two parts: the main part and Nakhchivan.

Earthquake of magnitude 5.4 - 17 km E of Novokayakent, Russia

A Tbilisi court has sentenced 29-year-old Archil Museliants to four years in prison on charges of damaging surveillance camera cables outside parliament during protests — a case critics call emblematic of the Georgian Dream regime’s campaign against dissent

High-level meeting between Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan begins

For the 266th day in a row, Rustaveli Avenue is blocked in Tbilisi. Protests continue in 8 cities across Georgia

Tbilisi City Court Judge Eka Barbakadze remanded protesters Tornike Toshkhua and Mindia Shervashidze in pretrial custody on August 18, two days after their detention on group violence charges over a disputed August 1 rally incident

Russian drones have attacked oil depot of Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR in Odesa region

March in support of Ukraine on Rustaveli now. They chant names of two Ukrainians arrested during anti-govt protests in Tbilisi - Sergei Kukhachuk and Ruslan Sivakov. March is to support Ukraine ahead of Alaska meeting

On the 256th day of protests, supporters of Georgia's European integration gathered on the square near the country's parliament and blocked traffic on Rustaveli Avenue

Calls for mass protests against power outages are spreading on social networks, Makhachkala officials reported, and reminded about the responsibility for unauthorized actions

Appeal from Yerevan and Baku on dissolution of Minsk Group sent to OSCE countries — Armenian MFA

Azerbaijan–Armenia Peace Agreement – Main Conditions: The Soviet-era republican borders are confirmed as the recognized borders of the independent states. Both sides pledge to respect each other’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, border inviolability, and political independence. No territorial claims now or in the future; no actions undermining territorial integrity or political unity. No use or threat of force, no interference in internal affairs, and no allowing third parties to use their territory for force against the other. After exchanging ratification documents, the two countries will establish diplomatic relations in line with the 1961 and 1963 Vienna Conventions