Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree allocating $1 million to support Ukraine. These funds will be used to purchase and ship electrical equipment produced in Azerbaijan.

20 years ago, Russian troops committed mass murder of civilians in the Chechen village of Novye Aldy, a suburb of Grozny. During the “cleansing” operation, OMON from St. Petersburg and other units looted, set houses on fire, and brutally murdered unarmed Chechens. On February 5, 2000, at least 56 people, including women, children, and the elderly, fell victim to the crimes. Read more about this tragedy in our video.

A similar law to the American FARA will be adopted in Georgia in the near future. This announcement was made today by the executive secretary of the Georgian Dream, Mamuka Mdinaradze. Thus, the ruling party will expand the current legislation on "foreign agents" - now it will also affect individuals.

In 2024, Russians traveled abroad 29.2 million times. The most frequent destination was Turkey - 6.3 million trips. These are the data from the RBC rating. Abkhazia was in second place - 5.9 million trips.

Baku has received evidence that the Embraer 190 aircraft of AZAL, which crashed in late December, was shot down by a missile fired by the Russian Pantsir air defense system. This was reported on Tuesday, February 4, by the Reuters news agency, citing sources in the Azerbaijani government.

Житель села Сержень-Юрт Шалинского района Чечни Исмаил Мухадиев умер после похищения и пыток в полиции. Об этом сообщило оппозиционное движение Niyso, а также правозащитная ассоциация «Вайфонд».

Crimean Solidarity activists from Bakhchisarai Seidamet Mustafayev, Eldar Yakubov, Abdulmedzhit Seytumerov, Ruslan Asanov, Ametkhan Umerov and Remzi Nimetulayev were again left in pretrial detention until May 23, 2025. This decision was made by the Southern Military Court in Rostov.

Speaking at the Atlantic Council in Washington, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan noted that it was possible to agree on sensitive topics in the draft peace treaty with Azerbaijan, and "this is the cornerstone of future peace."

In January 2025, Russian far-right groups committed 118 attacks. This was reported by the NVMP (Nazi Video Monitoring Project), which collects video evidence of hate crimes published by Russian far-right groups in Telegram channels. The overwhelming majority of attacks (91), according to the source, were motivated by racism. In 7 cases, the motive was religious hatred: the attackers slashed the tires of cars with Islamic stickers and smashed the windows of halal food stalls.

The Kazakhstan Transport Ministry has published a preliminary report on the investigation into the crash of the Embraer 190 passenger airliner of Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL). The document states that before the impact with the ground, the aircraft received through and non-through damage of various shapes. Some of them (having a regular rectangular shape) could have been caused by "external objects that penetrated the aircraft components." As part of the investigation, foreign objects found in the fin and stabilizer area were removed for further analysis.