There was a fight in the Georgian parliament over the law on foreign agents. The leader of the opposition party Citizens, Aleko Elisashvili, attacked the head of the parliamentary majority, Mamuka Mdinaradze, when he spoke about the above-mentioned bill.
Chechen activist Abubakar Yangulbaev said that his fellow countrymen are being taken to war in Ukraine for drinking alcohol and drugs.
A demonstration against the adoption of the bill on foreign agents is taking place outside the parliament building in Tbilisi. Participants unfurled the EU flag. The protesters are chanting the slogans “No to the Russian law”, “No to the Russian dream”.
The day before it became known that the co-chairman of the Memorial Human Rights Center Oleg Orlov was transferred from Moscow to Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1 in Samara. Neither the lawyers nor Orlov’s wife knew about this. It is possible that Samara is not the final destination.
A criminal case against 23-year-old activist from Dagestan Ulker Gashimova has been transferred to the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don. She is accused of public calls for terrorist and extremist activities.
The Kizilyurt District Court of Dagestan sentenced Magomedbeg Magomedov to a fine of 30 thousand rubles, finding him guilty of “discrediting the army.”
Russians entering Georgia are not controlled in any way, and there may be secret service agents among them. This was stated by the country's President Salome Zurabishvili.
In the Russian Vladimir Central prison, FSIN officers beat up Crimean Tatar activist Asan Yanikov. According to his sister, Asan asked twice about the possibility of picking up groceries. He was refused, and then security officers approached him and hit his head twice on the concrete with all their might.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz criticized the bill on foreign agents initiated by the ruling Georgian Dream party. This happened at a joint press conference in Berlin after a meeting with Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze.
The police detained former and current employees of the Rosseti Northern Caucasus company on suspicion of theft of about 2.8 billion rubles. TASS reported this.
Closed hearings on the issue of border delimitation with Azerbaijan were held in the Armenian parliament. Speaker Alen Simonyan did not rule out the possibility of refusing to sign a peace treaty with Azerbaijan.