A criminal case has been opened in Karachay-Cherkessia over negligence following the death of two climbers – employees of the fire and emergency rescue services of Stavropol Krai. The tragedy occurred during a training camp held in the region from February 17 to 21. The men were following a mountain route to the Orlyonok tract, located in the Sofia Gorge of the Zelenchuksky District, and found themselves in the place of an avalanche. Law enforcement officials believe that the reason for this outcome was the negligence of the organizers. A man who was not allowed to participate in the camp also took part in the hike.

A rally in support of Ruben Vardanyan and other captives and detainees in Baku was held in Yerevan near the Foreign Ministry building.

Dagestani auto blogger Akhmed Vengalbi (WENGALLBI), whose Instagram profile has 7 million followers, was stopped by police officers on Kutuzovsky Prospekt in Moscow. He did not have a driver's license and refused a medical examination, Makhachkalinskiye Izvestia reports.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has decided to award the surviving crew members of the Embraer E190 passenger plane of Azerbaijan Airlines, which crashed during the Baku-Grozny flight in December last year. He wrote about this on his Telegram channel.

The Stavropol Territory Court sentenced another defendant in the case of the riots at the Makhachkala airport to long prison terms. Ramazan Abdullabekov, Ismail Amirov, Yasin Gadzhiev, Magomedali Omarov and Magomedgadzhi Chirgilaev received from 8 to 10 years.

A rally was held in front of the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France, calling for the non-deportation of Said-Sultan Khamzatov and Ruslan Meyriev to Russia.

According to a fingerprint examination, fingerprints of Crimean Tatar political prisoners were not found on the books confiscated from them and deemed "extremist". This information was presented by the defense in the Southern District Military Court.

The Karachay City Court sentenced the leaders of a cell of the extremist organization At-Takfir Wal-Hijra, banned in Russia, to 3 years and 2 months in prison. Another 12 people received sentences from 2 years to 3 years and 1 month.

The head of the capital of North Ossetia, Vyacheslav Mildzikhov, drove a car along the streets of Vladikavkaz. While driving, he inspected the condition of the roads and filmed a video, which later appeared on social networks.

17-year-old Adam Kadyrov, the son of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, visited Egypt as part of a delegation from the region to discuss the prospects for developing investment cooperation.