Russia needs certain assurances from Armenia in connection with its accession to the International Criminal Court (ICC), this issue remains to be resolved. This was stated by the press secretary of the Russian President Peskov, speaking about the possibility of Vladimir Putin’s visit to Yerevan.

The Investigative Directorate for Karachay-Cherkessia opened a criminal case against a 40-year-old local resident. She is accused under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in the activities of an extremist organization).

A court in Vladikavkaz found local resident Kazbek Alikov guilty under the article on “fake news” about the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). He was sentenced to one year suspended imprisonment.

Moscow, St. Petersburg and the Moscow region are leaders in the ranking of Russian regions in terms of quality of life. The outsiders are Tuva, Ingushetia and the Jewish Autonomous Region. RIA Novosti reported this. Among the regions of the North Caucasian Federal District, the KBR ranks 64th, Dagestan – 67th, Chechnya – 68th, Karachay-Cherkessia – 79th.

Armenia is ready to be as close to the European Union as it deems possible. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this in an interview with the British publication The Telegraph.

The Dagestan police duty station received a message from a 43-year-old resident of North Ossetia. She reported that her 22-year-old daughter Anna Tsomartova in Kaspiysk left the Sports Palace named after. A. Aliyeva never returned.

“Russian-Armenian relations are being tested for strength. On the Russian side, the approach has not changed, and Moscow continues to view relations with Yerevan as allied,” said Russian Ambassador to Yerevan Sergei Kopyrkin in an interview with Sputnik-Armenia.

The Polish border service deported 15 Georgian citizens to their homeland. Three of them posed a threat to state security and public order in Poland.

Prolonged shallowing of the Caspian Sea could hit plans for the development of beach tourism in Dagestan. This was reported by leading researcher at the Institute of Geology of the Far Eastern Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences Idris Idrisov.

The mayor of Novokuznetsk, Sergei Kuznetsov, said in an interview that the city administration is looking for a place to erect a monument to the former USSR Secretary General Joseph Stalin. “There are people whom Stalin offended or destroyed. But overall, he did a lot,” Kuznetsov said.