Derbent City Assembly deputy Rovshan Omarov has been detained in Dagestan. A criminal case has been opened against him in connection with the use of four migrant workers from Uzbekistan and China in his greenhouse farm without proper registration.

Political prisoner from North Ossetia, activist, opera singer Vadim Cheldiev, who was sentenced to 10 years, is regularly placed in solitary confinement. This was reported by the representative of the public organization "Mothers of Beslan" Aneta Gadieva.

On the night of February 7, on Slavy Avenue in Belgorod, three servicemen from Dagestan in a BMW X7 drove through a red light at high speed and crashed into an ambulance. Two paramedics - Olga Lyubimova and Marina Parovyshnik - died on the spot.

During his hunger strike in a Georgian pretrial detention center, opposition Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Sadigov lost 40 kg, down to 56 kg. He is currently in extradition custody; his condition recently became extremely serious and he was unconscious for several hours. This was reported by the NGO “Center for Social Justice”.

The European Court of Human Rights has granted the claim of the defense of Dagestani journalist and political prisoner Abdulmumin Gadzhiev. The ECHR ruled that the Russian authorities are obliged to pay him compensation in the amount of 6 thousand euros for delaying the period of detention before the trial.

Azerbaijani authorities are collecting evidence to file a lawsuit in an international court over the crash of the AZAL passenger jet. This was reported the day before by the local news agency APA. Earlier, Reuters reported, citing sources in the country's government, that Baku has a fragment of a missile that was found in the hull of the crashed Embraer 190. According to the source, Azerbaijan considers this sample to be evidence that the plane was shot down by the Russian Pantsir air defense system.

The family of Kurban Dalgatov from Makhachkala, who was killed by security forces, was denied permission to hold a rally for a fair punishment. The Makhachkala authorities explained their decision by the undesirability of mass protests due to the possible threat of terrorist attacks and drone attacks. Officials recommended postponing the rally "until the situation improves."

In the city of Dzerzhinsk in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, a former criminal who returned from the "SVO" stabbed to death a 55-year-old Chechen, Abubakar Umayev. He was sitting at a bus stop and after several blows to the chest, he fell to the ground.