The Nalchik Garrison Military Court found Junior Sergeant Asker Kochkarov guilty of evading military service. Ego was sentenced to five years in a penal colony.

The son of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, 17-year-old Ela, was awarded the medal "For services to the Chechen Republic". The award is given for personal merits related to the development of physical culture and sports, activities that have received wide fame and public recognition.

The ruling Georgian Dream party has officially proposed declaring Orthodoxy the state religion. The initiative belongs to the founder of the party, billionaire, former Russian citizen Bidzina Ivanishvili.

The founder of the newspaper "Qirim", published in the Crimean Tatar language, Seyran Ibragimov, was fined 250 thousand rubles. He was found guilty of abusing freedom of information.

The Grozny-registered company "Torgtrade" exported 2.6 thousand tons of rapeseed oilseed from the Kherson region of Ukraine, which is under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. This is the property of 77-year-old resident of Chechnya Roza Mollaeva. Tamerlan Berikhanov, a former employee of the Grozny administration's finance department, answered the journalists' phone number registered in her name.

European External Action Service spokesman Peter Stano said the EU is concerned about statements by the Georgian Prime Minister and other officials from the ruling Georgian Dream party regarding the ban on opposition parties.

Significant growth dynamics of industrial waste have been recorded in four republics of the North Caucasus Federal District. Thus, over the year, the mass of waste from enterprises in Chechnya increased by 98.7% (up to 716.9 thousand tons), in Kabardino-Balkaria - by 83.8% (up to 103.5 thousand tons), in Ingushetia - by 79.5% (up to 13.4 thousand tons). This was reported by the audit and consulting network FinExpertiza.

FSB officers detained six people in Nazran and the village of Kantyshevo (Ingushetia). According to investigators, they were planning an attack on security forces and the Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin in Sunzha.

Russia has stepped up checks on migrants after the seizure of a colony in the Volgograd region on August 23. The media reported on tightened controls on the streets of Moscow, citing migrants. However, there are no official statements from the Russian authorities. For more details, watch our video.

Economist Fazil Gasimov, a doctoral student at Istanbul University, has been on a hunger strike for 75 days in protest against his arrest. He has lost 27 kg and weighs only 40 kilograms.