The Memorial Human Rights Center recognized former Chechen police officer Yasin Khalidov as a political prisoner.

Armenia has not received information from the Russian Federation about Azerbaijan’s plans to begin military operations in Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that Yerevan expects Russian peacekeepers to take action to stabilize the situation.

Since June this year, police have been preventing journalists from visiting the village of Seyudlu in western Azerbaijan. Residents there protested against gold mining by a British company, and the demonstrations were harshly suppressed.

Azerbaijan began “anti-terrorist measures” of a local nature in Karabakh to restore the constitutional order. Baku also accused Armenia of shelling its positions and closed its airspace.

The average resident of Dagestan will have to save money for the purchase of a private house for more than 20 years. In Chechnya, the term is about 19 years, reports the Mirkvartir.ru service.

The Constitutional Court of Georgia accepted for consideration a motion to impeach the country's President Salome Zurabishvili. The conclusion will be submitted to parliament within a month.

A column of Russian troops blocked the village of Srednie Kurchali. The next day, a “cleansing operation” began here, during which the military removed all the men (up to 20 people) from the village.

Ramil Dolaev, a resident of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, has been brought to administrative responsibility for distributing songs of the Chechen bard Timur Mutsuraev on one of the social networks. He made publicly available the composition “Islamic Sum,” which the court had previously considered extremist material.

During a briefing, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov answered a question from journalists about the state of health of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.

The investigation of the criminal case against natives of the Stavropol Territory Kairbek Bakiev, Ilkhan Kanmurzaev and Eldar Mashaev has been completed. They are accused under Part 2 of Art. 209 (participation in a gang), Art. 279 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (armed rebellion) and Art. 317 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (attack on the life of military personnel).