The Balashikha City Court of Moscow sentenced a native of the Karachay-Cherkessia Republic, former head of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Tverskoy District of the capital, Marat Tambiev, to 16 years in prison. He was accused of receiving a record bribe in bitcoins, RIA Novosti reports.

Polish citizen Katarzyna Marciniuk, who disappeared more than a month ago in the Chechen village of Itum-Kali on the border with Georgia, has contacted her. This was reported by her sister Anna Ignachak. According to her, Katarzyna was hitchhiking around Crimea and the North Caucasus. She is currently in Russia, but plans to return home in two weeks.

Due to the sharp deterioration in the health status of the Azerbaijani journalist Afghan Sadyvov, the Azerbaijani journalist was transferred to a prison medical institution.

Three men have been detained in Dagestan. Security officials claim that they are involved in organizing and participating in a cell of an international extremist organization.

In Russia, a situation is rapidly developing related to the tightening of migration policy. Some measures taken are disappointed. One gets the impression that someone purposefully encounters Russia with neighboring fraternal regions. The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov wrote about this in his TG channel.

In Makhachkala, colleagues of journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev of the Chernovik publication held a picket in his support. The founder of the newspaper, Magdi Kamalov, and deputy editor-in-chief, Magomed Magomedov, demanded that their colleague be released and that the criminal case fabricated against him be dropped.

Georgia will never become a member of the European Union under the current government. This was stated by the EU Ambassador to Georgia Pavel Gerchinsky. According to him, members of the Georgian government are far from the values ​​of the European Union and are disqualifying people from membership in it.

Crimean Tatar political prisoner Rustem Gugurik was transported to IK-8 in Buryatia, which is 6,500 kilometers from his home. This was reported at an OSCE conference by his relative Tatyana Lukyanenko.

Georgia's ruling party, Georgian Dream, is re-initiating the impeachment procedure against President Salome Zurabishvili. This was announced at a briefing by Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili.

In Karachay-Cherkessia, Dagestan and Chechnya, buying a typical two-room apartment on a mortgage is available to less than 5% of the population. The figure is lower only in Sevastopol (2.8%) and Crimea (2.3%), according to the RIA Novosti rating.