Serious violations were recorded during the voting and counting of votes in the presidential elections in Azerbaijan on February 7. Among them are ballot stuffing, voters arriving in groups, and unregistered voters voting. This is stated in the preliminary conclusion of the joint observation mission of the OSCE and OSCE/ODIHR.

16-year-old Adam Kadyrov received an award for winning a competition in Dubai (UAE), in which he did not participate. The UAE SWAT Challenge 2024 took place from February 3 to 7. At the end of the fourth day, the Akhmat team of the special police regiment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Chechen Republic won.

At many polling stations during voting in the presidential elections in Azerbaijan, journalists are prohibited from filming and observers are removed. This was reported by a number of local media.

All 309 imams of Chechnya received a LADA Granta car and 100 thousand rubles from the Kadyrov Foundation. The charity event was organized in honor of the night of the ascension of the Prophet Muhammad. According to the most minimal estimates, the gifts could cost 247 million rubles.

On February 7, early presidential elections are being held in Azerbaijan. The election campaign of candidates began on January 15. The Central Election Commission has registered seven candidates for the presidency.

A court in Rostov-on-Don arrested the director of a Stavropol closed-type school, Stepan Lyubenko, in the case of sending students to clean their house. He is accused of using forced labor of children, negligence resulting in serious injury to a student, and other crimes.

The State Security Service of Georgia reported the detention of a cargo with 6 explosive devices disguised as batteries for electric vehicles. The minivan was moving from Odessa through European countries and crossed the Turkish-Georgian border. According to the State Security Service, Voronezh was indicated as the final destination.

The day before, in the Akhmat Arena area in Grozny, employees of the Russian Guard tried to stop a car. The driver did not comply, and after two warning shots, they opened fire on the car. The head of the department for working with personnel of the operational group of the Ministry of Internal Affairs units, Lieutenant Colonel Albert Atmurzaev, who was driving, was mortally wounded.

Saudi Arabia has allocated 3 thousand places for Chechnya for the pilgrimage to Mecca in 2024. For Ingushetia – 1300. The cost of the Hajj includes transfer, meals, hotels and much more.

In Tbilisi, on the square near the Rustaveli metro station, a rally was held demanding that Israel stop hostilities in Palestine. The activists held posters with the inscriptions: “Free Palestine”, “Palestine, you are the soul of our Soul”, “You would have sat quietly during the Holocaust” and others.