The Russian peacekeeping contingent, within the framework of its obligations, did not protect the civilian population of Nagorno-Karabakh. This was stated by Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan.

During the “cleansing” in the village of Gekhi, the Russian military captured Khizir Masudovich Musaev, born in 1966. This happened not far from his house (57 Zarechnaya St.). Having decided to visit his mother, he went out into the street and was almost immediately stopped to check his documents.

The mobilized Dmitry Setrakov, who did not want to fight against Ukraine and left the Russian Federation for Armenia, was deported back. Now he is in Rostov-on-Don, in the military police department for the Southern Military District. This was reported by the “Go through the Forest!” project, which helps Russian citizens flee abroad.

The signatories of the appeal in defense of scientists of the Institute for Humanitarian Research of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic are under pressure, they are summoned to law enforcement agencies. This was reported by the Memorial Human Rights Protection Center.

Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine submitted for consideration a draft resolution recognizing the right of the Ingush people to self-determination and the creation of an independent national state. In addition, the document condemns the mass deportation of Ingush to the USSR in 1944.

An audio recording of conversations about prayer, secretly made in a mosque back in 2015, became evidence for the prosecution in the case of the “first Jankoy group” of Hizb ut-Tahrir. Previously, its participants - activist Enver Krosh, journalist Vilen Temeryanov, Rinat Aliyev, Murat Mustafayev, Seityagi Abbozov and Edem Bekirov - were recognized as political prisoners.

In Dagestan, security forces detained a former member of the detachment of Chechen field commanders Shamil Basayev and Khattab. Ibragim Magomedov is accused of participating in an attack on the Novolaksky region of Dagestan in 1999 during the second Russian-Chechen war.

According to a study by the Sober Russia movement, in 2023 the most non-drinking regions were Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia. They are followed by Karachay-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria. In 2022, the first five lines of the ranking were occupied by these same republics.

The Baku Serious Crimes Court sentenced activist Samir Ashurov to 6.5 years in prison. He was accused of stabbing a man.

The Lefortovo court in Moscow extended the arrest of 25-year-old Ukrainian citizen and Crimean Tatar Leniya Umerova until March 4, 2025. Russian authorities accuse her of espionage. The lawyers insisted on a written undertaking not to leave the place. They are not informed about investigative actions.