Lawyers for activist from Dagestan Eduard Atayev have been unable to obtain the full text of the verdict for more than a month and therefore were unable to file an appeal. In November 2023, he was sentenced to six years and five months in prison.

The Azerbaijani authorities must stop repressing the country's independent press and release, among other Channel 13 journalists, Aziz Orujov and Shamo Eminov. This was reported by the New York Committee to Protect Journalists (JMK).

Project “Support for political prisoners. Memorial recognized Tatyana Moskalenko, an arrested pensioner from the capital of Adygea Maykop, as a political prisoner. A case was opened against her under the article on public calls for activities directed against the security of the state. The accused faces up to 6 years in prison.

At night, a fire broke out in the Republican Perinatal Center in Baku. The deaths of four newborns were reported. Three more people suffered smoke inhalation and were hospitalized.

Today, the Visaitovsky Court of Grozny will continue the trial of student Nikita Zhuravel, accused of burning the Koran. Let us remind you that on December 20, the court completed the interrogation of the victims - 13 imams of mosques in Grozny. They declared the moral damage that Zhuravel caused to them and all Muslims with his act.

Armenia no longer has any expectations from the CSTO. Yerevan expected assistance from the organization during the Azerbaijani aggression in September 2023, but it did not arrive. This was announced by the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan.

Today in Makhachkala a traditional picket took place in support of political prisoner-journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev. The action was attended by the deputy editor-in-chief of the Chernovik publication Magomed Magomedov and his colleagues.

“An icon is something that people pray to. But the icon of Stalin as such does not exist.” This is how the head of the Public Relations Service of the Patriarchate of Georgia, Archpriest Andria Jagmaidze, commented on the appearance of an icon with USSR Secretary General Joseph Stalin in the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity (Tsminda Sameba) in Tbilisi.

The bank accounts of those arrested in the Abzas Media case, Ulvi Hasanli, Sevinj Vagifkizi, Nargiz Absalamova and Hafiz Babali, have been frozen. Their property was confiscated. Members of their families were also injured.

A court in Vladikavkaz sentenced serviceman Alan Ezeev to five and a half years probation. He was found guilty of leaving a military unit without permission.