The Tbilisi City Court has remanded Giorgi Baramidze, a leader of the opposition United National Movement, in custody. The politician has been charged under Articles 307¹ ("high treason") and 318 ("sabotage") of the Criminal Code of Georgia. He faces up to four years in prison.
The last lines in the RIA Novosti rating for scientific and technological development were Ingushetia, the Jewish Autonomous Region, Chechnya, Khakassia and Karachay-Cherkessia.
North Ossetia ranks 74th out of 85 regions of the Russian Federation, Dagestan is 73rd, and Kabardino-Balkaria is 72nd. The top three are Moscow, St. Petersburg and Tatarstan. These regions account for almost 36% of the total volume of shipped innovative goods and services in Russia.
The positions of the regions in the list were determined based on integral values calculated using 19 indicators. Among them are human resources, material and technical base, efficiency of scientific and technological activities, and the scale of scientific and technological activities.