The Baku Serious Crimes Court sentenced Elvin Mustafayev, a member of the alternative Confederation of Trade Unions “Work Table”, to three years in prison. He was accused of drug trafficking. He denied the accusations and linked them to his trade union and social activities.

The Supreme Court of Crimea considered the appeals and left the Crimean Solidarity activists from Bakhchisarai in pretrial detention. Seydamet Mustafayev, Eldar Yakubov, Abdulmedzhit Seitumerov, Ruslan Asanov, Ametkhan Umerov and Remzi Nimetulaev will be under arrest at least until April 22.

Over the year, proposed salaries in the North Caucasus Federal District increased by 25% - to an average of 41.3 thousand rubles. These are the data from the recruitment agency HeadHunter.

Magomedrasul Mutaev was shot dead at the entrance to a house in Makhachkala. The deceased was engaged in martial arts at the martial arts school named after Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov.

Nowhere in the North Caucasian Federal District and Adygea is there and will not be a listening to the Shaman’s song “I am Russian” before lessons in schools. This was reported by the Deputy Minister of Education of Kabardino-Balkaria Ekaterina Misostova, rejecting the information that appeared earlier in the media.

In addition to the previously widespread professional assessment under the category of “religious extremism,” the authorities of Dagestan began to practice persecution of citizens for their participation in protests. This was reported by the Memorial Human Rights Protection Center.

The OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) election observation mission presented an interim report on the early presidential elections to be held in Azerbaijan on February 7. The document criticizes a number of political and legal aspects.

Rosstat has published a forecast of the population of Russia by 2045. According to the document, in the next two decades the number of people in the Russian Federation will decrease at a rate of more than 500 thousand people per year.

Kuban Left Resistance activist Daria Polyudova, sentenced to nine years, reported being beaten by her cellmate in correctional colony No. 4 in Kabardino-Balkaria. According to the lawyer, the prisoner suffered for making critical statements about Russian President Putin.

Armenia leads among neighboring countries in remittances by the end of 2023. 3.6 billion dollars were sent there from the Russian Federation (plus 15% compared to 2022, excluding December). Kyrgyzstan ranks second (2.3 billion), Georgia – third (1.5 billion). $230 million was sent to Kazakhstan from Russia.