During the parliamentary elections in Georgia in Marneuli, an attempt was recorded to stuff several ballots into the ballot box at once. As a result, voting was abolished at polling station No. 69, the country's Central Election Commission reported.

The Georgian authorities have received signals from Western partners that relations with the republic will be rebooted after the parliamentary elections. This was announced by Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze.

Today, one day before the parliamentary elections in Georgia, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and nine of its partners in the Council of Europe Platform on the Safety of Journalists published a report and recommendations aimed at guaranteeing the safety of journalists and the public’s right to reliable information.

The activists of the Crimean Solidarity movement from Bakhchisarai, Seidamet Mustafayev, Eldar Yakubov, Abdulmedzhit Seytumerov, Ruslan Asanov, Ametkhan Umerov and Remzi Nimetulayev, have been left in pretrial detention again until February 23, 2025. This decision was made by the Southern Military Court in Rostov.

Prisoners in Taganrog Pretrial Detention Center No. 2 are being tortured, including Chechen native Magomed Alkhanov. The victims are being asked to confess to complicity in the escape from Rostov-on-Don Pretrial Detention Center No. 1 and to tell which of the prison employees helped organize the escape. This was reported by the Memorial Human Rights Center.

Nothing has changed in the relations between Armenia and Belarus. This was stated by the secretary of the parliamentary faction of the ruling party of Armenia, Hovhannisyan, commenting on the short meeting of the leaders of the countries - Lukashenko and Pashinyan - on the sidelines of the BRICS summit, which took place on October 24 in Kazan.

Russian military personnel committed 187 crimes in the Kursk region, including murders and rapes. This was stated by the commander of the special forces "Akhmat", deputy head of the Main Directorate for Military-Political Work of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Apti Alaudinov. These statistics were announced to him by the head of the UMVD for the Kursk region, Alaudinov said, claiming that the fighters of his unit were not involved in these crimes. More details - in our video report.

If Georgian Dream wins the parliamentary elections on October 26, not only representatives of opposition parties but also the country's president could be sent to prison. This was stated by Salome Zurabishvili herself.

In the village of Petropavlovskaya in the Grozny district of Chechnya, unknown individuals shot at a military truck of the National Guard "Ural". One serviceman was killed, another was wounded, Baza reports.

The peace treaty with Azerbaijan has agreed on the wording on the absence of territorial claims, non-use of force, and establishment of diplomatic relations. This was stated by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at the BRICS summit in Kazan.