Armenia does not intend to end the presence of Russian troops in the country. At the same time, an EU monitoring mission is located on its territory, which monitors the situation on the border with Azerbaijan. This was stated by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at the GLOBSEC-2025 forum in Prague.

Apti Alaudinov, commander of the Akhmat unit and deputy head of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces, called for mobilization to be declared in Russia amid Israel's attack on Iran.

Tbilisi City Court has arrested one of the leaders of the opposition Coalition for Changes, Nika Gvaramia, for failing to appear at a meeting of the temporary parliamentary commission investigating alleged crimes of the previous authorities. Prior to this, he was given a bail of 30,000 lari (about $18,300), but this requirement was not met within the established deadline.

The Supreme Court of Crimea overturned the decisions of the Krasnogvardeisky District Court and the Federal Penitentiary Service, which refused to transfer the Crimean Tatar political prisoner Riza Izetov to a colony closer to home. He is being held in IK-1 in Yakutia, which is 9,000 kilometers from where his relatives live.

Mansur Movlaev, who is being held in a pretrial detention center in Kazakhstan and was previously put on the wanted list in Russia, fears an assassination attempt by another prisoner. According to his lawyer, a murder suspect, an ethnic Ingush, was placed in his cell.

More than 150 prisoners - natives of Chechnya - were transferred to Stavropol Krai and the Chechen Republic this year from colonies in other regions of Russia, including the most remote ones. According to the results of 2022-2023, there were 112 such convicts. This was reported by the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Chechen Republic Mansur Soltayev.

Most of the EU member states do not support the decision to suspend the visa-free regime for Georgia. This was announced by the EU Ambassador to Georgia Pawel Herczynski at a conference organized by the Center for Security, Politics and Nationalism Studies of the University of Georgia. This is how he commented on the statement by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk that his government is working with EU member states on this initiative.

Numerous complaints and appeals from human rights defenders, activists and cultural figures from Adygea, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia have yielded their first results. The Kabardino-Balkarian Ministry of Nationalities sent recommendations to the Russian government to revise the federal bill on the repatriation of Circassians and other peoples of the North Caucasus to Russia. The law was previously criticized for its discriminatory nature due to the mandatory requirement to speak Russian.

In Georgia, journalists, civil society activists and opposition members are receiving court summonses en masse over social media posts that the ruling party considers offensive. According to local media, those summoned to court include TV Pirveli hosts Vakho Sanaia, Vika Bukia and Ekaterina Mishveladze, Mtavari correspondent Dea Mamiseshvili, human rights activist Baia Pataraia, activists Mariam Geguchadze and Anna Subeliani, opposition members Elene Khoshtaria, Aleko Elisashvili, Levan Khabeishvili, as well as former president of the National Bank of Georgia Giorgi Kadagidze.

Previously convicted native of Nazran Khadzhibikar Barkinkhoev was captured by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and told how he was forcibly recruited to participate in the "SVO". According to him, he was tortured.