Tbilisi City Court has issued sentences to two opposition leaders – Zurab Girchi Japaridze (Coalition for Change, Girchi – More Freedom party) and Mamuka Khazaradze (Strong Georgia coalition, Lelo party). They were sentenced to seven and eight months in prison, respectively, for refusing to testify to the parliamentary investigative commission investigating the alleged crimes of the previous authorities.

Ingushetia took 83rd place out of 85 regions of the Russian Federation in the socio-economic development rating for 2024, published by RIA Novosti. Karachay-Cherkessia is in 80th place, North Ossetia is in 78th place, and Kabardino-Balkaria is in 77th place. Chechnya is in 75th place.

A representative of the Abkhazian Ministry of Tourism noted that many tourists from Russia are too thrifty.

Instead of the Supreme Court of Dagestan, the criminal case against the former Sports Minister and former head of Kizilyurt Magomed Magomedov will be heard by the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don. This decision, made at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, is related to security concerns for the participants in the process, since one of the defendants has "ethno-clan connections" in the republic's law enforcement agencies and can influence the course of the proceedings.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has put Apti Alaudinov, deputy head of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Russian Defense Ministry and commander of the Akhmat special forces, on wanted list. He is charged with "encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine."

According to NGnewsgeorgia, about 80 Georgian fighters have died on the front since February 2022 - volunteers from Georgia and Ukrainian citizens of Georgian origin.

Activist Ametkhan Abdulvapov, who was sentenced to 10.5 years, will be transferred to a maximum security penal colony. Its location is still unknown. He is currently in pretrial detention center No. 1 in Irkutsk, 6,000 kilometers from his home in Crimea.

A monument to Joseph Stalin has been erected in the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali. The life-size figure is located near the building of a bakery.

Afghan workers will receive work permits in Chechnya, Dagestan and Krasnodar Krai. This was announced at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum by the head of the Russian Business Center in Afghanistan, Rustam Khabibullin.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made his first working visit to Turkey (in 2023, he attended the presidential inauguration). During the meeting with the head of state Recep Erdogan, the parties discussed the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations and the peace process between Yerevan and Baku.