A court hearing was held in the capital of the self-proclaimed republic of South Ossetia in the case of Georgian citizen Tamara Mearakishvili. She is accused of "espionage for Georgia."

Journalist Ganimat Zahid has been sentenced in absentia by a Baku court to seven years in prison. He was found guilty of incitement against the state. According to the prosecution, in July 2018, Zahid published materials on YouTube containing open calls for violent actions against the Azerbaijani authorities.

The Sovetsky District Court of Makhachkala ruled that police actions against journalists Magomed Magomedov and Idris Yusupov, detained in January 2023, were illegal.

The Prosecutor General's Office of the self-proclaimed Republic of South Ossetia announced the arrest of a Georgian citizen on charges of espionage. According to media reports, she is civil activist Tamara Mearakishvili.

The Memorial Human Rights Center has recognized Georgian citizen Irakli Khufeniya as a political prisoner. In June, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don found him guilty of publicly justifying terrorism and sentenced him to two years in prison.

At a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Emomali Rahmon, the Russian President expressed deep condolences over the tragic death of a Tajik boy at a school in Odintsovo.

Azerbaijan has enacted an amnesty law marking the Year of Constitution and Sovereignty. This measure will affect approximately 20,000 people and will be implemented within four months.

An international conference entitled "The Circassian Genocide in the Context of History and Contemporary Politics" was held in the Seimas of Lithuania, organized by the United Circassian Council.

The defense of 14-year-old Chechen Muslim Murdiyev received a response to a complaint about violations of the rules for escorting a minor, which it sent to the prosecutor on November 20, 2025. This information was published on the Muslim Free Telegram channel, created by a lawyer defending Murdiyev's rights and freedoms.

Following the murder of 10-year-old Kobiljon Aliyev, a boy from a Tajik family, at a school near Moscow, Adam Kadyrov, the son and aide of the head of Chechnya, stated that the tragedy was not an isolated incident, but the result of a "systemic problem."