A format for meetings between the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan has been formed in Washington. This gives legitimacy to peace negotiations, said Sarkis Khandanyan, head of the Armenian Parliament's Standing Committee on Foreign Relations.

A rally is taking place in Tbilisi near the house of activist Nata Peradze. According to the protesters, a woman poured paint on the icon of the Matrona of Moscow in the Sameba Cathedral. The icon depicts a man resembling USSR Secretary General Joseph Stalin.

Eldar Kestan, a resident of the village of Partizany in the Genichesk district of the Kherson region, was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison. He was accused of participating in the activities of the Crimean Tatar volunteer battalion named after Noman Celebidzhikhan. The territory is under the control of Russian troops and authorities, the project “Support for Political Prisoners” reported. Memorial".

39-year-old native of Chechnya Islam Albakov, who has been held in a deportation center in Belgium since 2019, is deteriorating in his health and is almost blind. This was stated by the head of the human rights organization “Women of the World for Peace on Earth” Fatima Gazieva.

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.