Turkey is ready to open the border with Armenia only if it resolves all issues with Azerbaijan. This was stated by the head of the Turkish-Azerbaijani interparliamentary friendship group Shamil Ayrim at an event in Ankara.

A deputy from the ruling party of Armenia, Gurgen Melkonyan, commented on Zelensky’s possible visit.

Opposition politician Alexei Navalny was killed in a colony to prevent his exchange for alleged Russian intelligence officer Vadim Krasikov, sentenced to life in Germany. This was announced by the head of the International Anti-Corruption Foundation, Maria Pevchikh. Let us remind you that Krasikov was found guilty of the murder of the former Chechen field commander Zelimkhan Khangoshvili.

The decision of Stalin, Beria, Molotov, Voroshilov and other members of the USSR State Defense Committee on mass deportations of the peoples of the North Caucasus and other regions of the country on the basis of nationality violated the Soviet Constitution and the Criminal Code. A resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, Oleg Kelemetov, reported this in his statement to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

Chechnya and Ingushetia sell the least amount of alcohol per capita. The figures are less than 0.1 liters and 0.6 liters of alcohol stronger than 25 degrees per person, respectively. These are the findings of a study by the audit and consulting network FinExpertiza.

Cases of denial of re-entry into Georgia to Russian political activists and human rights defenders who have been living in this country since the beginning of the SVO are causing increasing concern. This was stated by the director of the Free Russia Foundation in the South Caucasus, Egor Kuroptev.

In Dagestan, the search for 22-year-old Anna Tsomartova, an Ossetian woman, continues for the 15th day. Emergency Ministry employees, police officers, volunteers and relatives are looking for the girl. The search area along the coastline of the Caspian Sea stretches for 156 kilometers.

Georgia's largest opposition party, the United National Movement, continues to collect signatures demanding the release of ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili.

Among all Russians, residents of the North Caucasus Federal District can buy the least amount of AI-92 gasoline with their average salary. The last places were taken by Chechnya - 83rd (660 l per month), Dagestan - 84th (647 l) and Ingushetia - 85th (647 l).

February 25 has been declared the Day of Soviet Occupation in Georgia. The national flag is flown at half-mast over the government administration building.