The head of Kabardino-Balkaria, Kazbek Kokov, said that a special flight of the Ministry of Emergency Situations will deliver over 20 tons of humanitarian aid collected by residents of the republic to Egypt for the population of the Gaza Strip. The head of the region thanked everyone who participated in the collection of humanitarian aid and its delivery.

At noon after Friday prayers, Abubakar Ismailovich Saluev, born in 1962, who lived in the village of New Noybera at the address: Svobody St., 14, decided to go fishing. He was accompanied by his 10-year-old son Idris and son-in-law Adam Ibragimov.

The head of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has appointed early presidential elections for February 7, 2024. They were supposed to take place in 2025. The reason for the date change is not specified.

The criminal case against the former head of the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Stavropol Territory, Alexei Safonov, was sent to the Fifth Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction. Safonov is accused of creating a criminal community and receiving bribes on a large scale by an organized group.

The Gudermes City Court brought local resident Naib Manaev to administrative responsibility for distributing the songs of the Chechen bard Timur Mutsuraev. He made publicly available the composition “12 Thousand Mujahideen,” which the court had previously considered extremist material.

A criminal case of torture, rape and extortion in the regional tuberculosis hospital No. 1 of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Saratov Region was submitted to the Saratov Regional Court from the Main Investigative Directorate of Russia for consideration. Among the injured prisoners are people from Chechnya, Dagestan, Georgia, and Azerbaijan.

Georgia expects clear recommendations and decisions from NATO on its path to joining the bloc. The country has long demonstrated itself as a member of the alliance through its actions and contributions to security issues. This was stated by the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili at a meeting of the NATO-Georgia Commission in Belgium.

The Azerbaijani authorities are eliminating all independent media and voices that expose the actions of the corrupt political elite. Six journalists have been arrested in the country recently, and this repressive machine must be stopped. This is stated in a press release from the international press protection organization Reporters Without Borders.

The Khasavyurt City Court of Dagestan sentenced local resident Shakhban Abakargadzhiev to five years in prison due to comments against the Russian army. However, the sentence was commuted, replacing the real term with three years of correctional labor.

At about 13:00, on the road between the settlements of Chiri-Yurt and Novye Atagi, a blue UAZ car was fired upon. The shelling was carried out from the side of a checkpoint located on the outskirts of the village of Novye Atagi, at the fork in the road leading to the village of Chechen-Aul.