USSR Secretary General Joseph Stalin will not appear on the icon of St. Matrona in the Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi. His image will be replaced with the image of a woman cured of cancer.

The European Court of Human Rights awarded Ruslan Rakhaev, former deputy head of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Cherkessk, compensation in the amount of 8,500 euros. The conditions of his transfer to the colony were considered inhumane, the human rights organization Public Verdict reported.

The court in Makhachkala sent the detective of the police department for the Sovetsky district of Makhachkala under house arrest in the case of the death of the detainee Kurban Dalgatov. Earlier, the Supreme Court of Dagestan chose a similar preventive measure for two police officers.

Akhdan Beksultanov, a resident of the village of Roshni-Chu in the Urus-Martan district of Chechnya, died in the war with Ukraine. The district administration reported this.

Citizen journalist Rustem Sheykhaliev, sentenced to 14 years, was unable to participate in the hearing to consider the appeal against his sentence via video conferencing from pre-trial detention center No. 3 in Novocherkassk. He suffered severe nosebleeds twice.

A St. Petersburg court sent a 67-year-old native of Dagestan into custody until March 11, suspected of “attempted cooperation with a foreign state.”

The Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for Dagestan opened a criminal case regarding the kidnapping of a person by a group of persons by prior conspiracy for mercenary reasons. One defendant was taken into custody, the second was put on the federal wanted list. In the summer of 2023, they kidnapped a resident of the republic and illegally detained him in a medical facility in Ingushetia.

Abkhaz telegram channels published information about the visit of “Georgian travelers.” They allegedly visited the self-proclaimed republic on November 3-6, 2023.

The infrastructure of the Makhachkala airport, which suffered from unrest in October 2023, was completely restored. The costs amounted to 20 million rubles, said the general director of the airport Said Ramazanov.

The police arrested for 15 days under the article “Minor Hooliganism” of the political observer of Jamnews Jamnews Shakhin Rzayev. Earlier, he periodically expressed criticism of the authorities of Azerbaijan and became known as a participant in civil society projects.