Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili called himself and Alexei Navalny “enemies No. 1” for Russian President Vladimir Putin. He also remembered political deaths in the Russian Federation.
When the special military operation in Ukraine began, Georgian leaders “showed a pragmatic approach.” President of Abkhazia Aslan Bzhania spoke about this in an interview with TASS.
A 56-year-old resident of Vladikavkaz, who scattered wreaths and vases with flowers on the graves of those who fought in Ukraine, was charged. She will be tried under the article “desecration of burial places.”
A court in Crimea dropped all charges against the imam of the village of Privetnoye, Kirovsky district, Ismail Yurdamov, under the article on illegal missionary work. In January he was fined eight thousand rubles.
The Russian Supreme Court refused to overturn the decision to criminally prosecute eight murdered residents of the Dagestan Khasavyurt. The defense noted that their guilt was refuted by the lack of evidence and the testimony of witnesses.
A convoy of 25 trucks with the next batch of electrical equipment was sent from the Sumgait Technological Park to Ukraine. The cargo includes electrical cables, as well as 26 sets of transformer substations.
Crimean Tatar Vladlen Abdulkadyrov, sentenced to 12 years in prison, has not gone out for walks for more than four months due to lack of shoes. Prison staff in Yelets did not provide him with seasonal shoes, and convicts are prohibited from having their own. Crimean Solidarity reports this.
At the station in Kazan, blogger Askhabali Alibekov, known as the “Wild Paratrooper,” was beaten. He said that he came to become an observer in the presidential elections. He was attacked by 15 people, knocked to the ground and beaten on his body and face.
Ukraine received $1 million in humanitarian aid from Azerbaijan in the form of electrical equipment.
According to the annual report of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Armenia (SVR), a "unfreezing" of the country's membership in the CSTO in 2026 is unlikely, while its assessment of the prospects for relations remains unchanged from last year's.
Security forces reported the death of a Kislovodsk resident during an arrest on suspicion of involvement in the plotting of the terrorist attack foiled in Stavropol in December 2025.
A memorial plaque to journalist Anna Politkovskaya, installed on the Moscow building where she was killed, was destroyed twice in one day, Radio Liberty reported, citing the Telegram channel SOTA. The toppled and smashed temporary plaque bore the same inscription as the original.