German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, at a press conference in Berlin with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, expressed hope that a peace treaty will be signed between Azerbaijan and Armenia this year. According to Aliyev, there are very good opportunities to achieve peace and Baku is ready to cooperate.

The Georgian government is hiding the GRECO Council of Europe report on the situation with corruption in the country. This was reported by the non-governmental organization Transparency International Georgia (TIG).

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put the deputy head of the Congress of the Oirat-Kalmyk people, Vladimir Dovdanov, on the wanted list. Previously, a criminal case was opened against him for calls for activities directed against the security of Russia. He is charged with calling on the Armed Forces of Ukraine to destroy Russian equipment.

Law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation) against 29-year-old Taulan Kipkeev from Karachay-Cherkessia. The reason was the video material he published on social networks in November 2023. In the video, a guy walks along Red Square in Moscow and reports that the instigators of the war are sitting in the Kremlin.

The Turkish-Russian monitoring center has stopped working in the Karabakh region. It was created at the beginning of 2021 in the city of Agdam.

The German Foreign Ministry commented on the rallies taking place in Georgia against the law on “foreign agents”. Let us remember that the country's parliament adopted it in the first reading.

Caucasian experts also speak about the ineffectiveness of the Sochi summit.

Members of the European Parliament approved the resolution by a majority vote. It states that negotiations on Georgia’s accession to the EU will not be held while the law on foreign agents is in force.

In the first quarter of this year, 66 Ukrainian citizens requested asylum in Georgia. During this period, the migration service received requests from 379 people from different countries.

In the Russian Federation, criminal cases have been initiated against at least 902 citizens for anti-war statements. This practice has been recorded in all regions except Chechnya, Karachay-Cherkessia, as well as the Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Bryansk Region, according to OVD-Info.