During the construction of 49% of apartment buildings in Dagestan, various technological violations and the use of low-quality materials take place. At the same time, the cost of a square meter of housing can reach 200 thousand rubles, said the chairman of the Guild of Builders of the North Caucasus Federal District, Ali Shakhbanov.

More than 80 human rights defenders, activists, and cultural figures from Adygea, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, and Karachay-Cherkessia have sent an appeal to the President of the Russian Federation. They are asking not to adopt the law "On Repatriation to the Russian Federation", since it requires knowledge of the Russian language for potential repatriates from foreign countries to Russia and infringes on their rights.

Circassian activist and blogger Hasan Matuev has been detained in Istanbul. He faces extradition to Russia, as he is on the federal wanted list. Matuev is included in the list of extremists and terrorists of Rosfinmonitoring.

Turkish law enforcement officers have detained Islam Seinaroev, the former manager of the Ingush branch of the Russian Social Fund. He is accused of organizing the theft of 2 billion rubles. One of the main defendants in the case is the former head of the federal postal service of Ingushetia, Magomed-Bashir Kalimatov, the elder brother of the head of the republic, Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov.

Azeri MP Azer Badamov was denied entry to the Russian Federation. The incident occurred at the Moscow airport, where Badamov was detained and not allowed on a flight to Astrakhan. He was later returned to Baku.

The Tbilisi City Court has remanded 11 people detained at the protests in custody: Andro Chichinadze, Onise Tskhadadze, Guram Mirtskhulava, Jano Archaya, Luka Jabua, Ruslan Sivakov, Revaz Kiknadze, Giorgi Terashvili, Valery Tetrashvili, Sergei Kukharchuk and Irakli Kerashvili. The case has entered the merits stage.

68 years ago, the first train with Karachays who returned to their native land from deportation arrived at the railway station of the Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Region.

The outgoing third president of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, commented on the work of the parliamentary commission created by the ruling party to investigate alleged crimes committed by the authorities during the period of "National Movement" rule.

The cyber attack on a number of Azerbaijani media resources, which occurred on February 20, was organized from the Russian Federation. This was stated by the chairman of the commission of the Parliament of Azerbaijan on countering external interference and hybrid threats, Ramid Namazov. According to him, the cyberespionage group APT29 ("Cozy Bear", also known as "Midnight Blizzard" and "The Dukes"), which is connected to Russian structures, is behind the attack.

Against the backdrop of the abrupt termination of American support for independent media in Europe and Central Asia and the strengthening of Russian propaganda, the international human rights organization Reporters Without Borders (RBG) published its annual press freedom rating. It is based on five indicators: political context, legal basis, economic environment for mass media, socio-cultural context and security.