The pre-election campaign for the presidential elections in Azerbaijan starts today. Candidates can campaign until February 6.

The permanent base of the Russian navy in Abkhazia may begin operating as early as 2024. Russia has assumed obligations to ensure the security of Abkhazia, and it is already clear how they are being fulfilled. This was announced by the Secretary of the Security Council of the self-proclaimed republic Sergei Shamba.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Zakharova commented on the statement of the Armenian leadership that Russian peacekeepers did not protect the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh and allowed ethnic cleansing.

A format for meetings between the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan has been formed in Washington. This gives legitimacy to peace negotiations, said Sarkis Khandanyan, head of the Armenian Parliament's Standing Committee on Foreign Relations.

Armenia no longer has any expectations from the CSTO. Yerevan expected assistance from the organization during the Azerbaijani aggression in September 2023, but it did not arrive. This was announced by the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan.

The day before, at a meeting with an American military expert, former Marine and intelligence officer Scott Ritter in Grozny, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that he was ready to exchange 20 Ukrainian prisoners of war for the lifting of sanctions against his mother, daughters, children and wife.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, voiced his proposal at a meeting in Grozny with American military expert and journalist Scott Ritter. He asked the United States to lift sanctions against his relatives and in exchange offered to release Ukrainian prisoners of war.

Russia cannot in any way prevent America from implementing all the important diplomatic measures necessary to reconcile Armenia and Azerbaijan. This was stated by US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller.

223 people, including 25 civilians, died during Azerbaijan's September invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh. The Investigative Committee of Armenia reported this.

A number of Russian telegram channels disseminated information that on New Year’s Eve, Russian military personnel killed the commander of the Georgian Legion, Mamuka Mamulashvili, in the Northern Military District zone in Ukraine. He himself called this information part of Russian propaganda.