The religious, educational, cultural rights of Karabakh Armenians will be respected in accordance with international conventions. President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev announced this at the urban planning forum in Zangilan.

Over the eight months of 2023, damage from corruption in the North Caucasus amounted to almost a billion rubles. The average bribe is estimated at 103 thousand rubles, said Sergei Bachurin, head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the North Caucasus Federal District.

A citizen of Armenia, former Minister of State of Nagorno-Karabakh Ruben Vardanyan was brought to justice on charges of financing terrorism, illegally crossing the state border to commit terrorist attacks and organizing illegal armed groups.

The Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh ceases to exist on January 1, 2024. The corresponding decree was signed by its head Samvel Shahramanyan.

15-year-old Adam Kadyrov, after the release of a video where he beats Volgograd student Nikita Zhuravel in a pre-trial detention center in Grozny, published a post on his Instagram account.

Before the invasion of Azerbaijani troops in September, 140 thousand ethnic Armenians lived in Nagorno-Karabakh, but today 47 thousand have left the region. This was reported by the press secretary of the Prime Minister of Armenia Nazeli Baghdasaryan.

In the environmental rating of the public organization "Green Patrol" at the end of the summer, Chechnya was in 7th place, scoring 77 points out of 100 possible.

The presentation of the historical fact about the deportation of a number of peoples of the USSR will be changed in the new history textbooks for grades 10 and 11. The head of Karachay-Cherkessia Rashid Temrezov spoke about this after a meeting with the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Sergei Kravtsov.

In Yerevan, demonstrators have been blocking the main streets since early morning. Security forces detain protesters. The number of detainees has reached 142. At opposition pickets, young people in universities call on students to join the protesters.

The Chechen authorities agreed with the AP on changes in the history textbook, where the repressed peoples of the USSR are called accomplices of the enemies.