Georgia must be admitted to the European Union to avoid Russian domination of the Black Sea. This was stated by the country's President Salome Zurabishvili at the Munich Security Conference.

Armenia is not an ally of Russia on the issue of Ukraine. This was stated by Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan at a meeting with representatives of the Armenian diaspora in Germany. “It pains us very much that we cannot influence this situation. The Ukrainian people are friendly people,” the politician said.

In the urban village of Okny, Podolsky district, Odessa region, a park has been renamed. It is named after the volunteer Chechen battalion named after Sheikh Mansur.

The murder of Alexei Navalny would be devastating and tragic for human rights and democracy around the world. This will again prove what kind of regime exists in Russia today. This is the opinion of Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili, which she shared in an interview with Bloomberg.

The Turkish presidential administration denied reports of arrests and placement in deportation camps of relatives of Chechen oppositionists living in the country, including the nephew of the first president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Dudayev, 18-year-old Mansur Dudayev. The department called the publications untrue.

The day before, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation published another list of “foreign agents”. It included a native of Chechnya, director of the human rights organization Human Rights Center Ichkeria Aslan Artsuev.

Last night, demonstrations took place in Yerevan and Tbilisi over the death of opposition politician Alexei Navalny in a Russian colony. About 200 people gathered in front of the Russian Embassy in Yerevan, and more than a thousand in Tbilisi and Batumi.

The court in Grozny approved the request for parole of Dzhabrail Makhmudov. In 2014, he and his brother Ibrahim were found guilty of complicity in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. They were sentenced to 12 and 14 years in a maximum security colony, respectively.

The Federal Penitentiary Service in the Yamalo-Nenets District spread the news about the death of opposition politician Alexei Navalny in IK-3. It is reported that Navalny felt ill after the walk and lost consciousness. He allegedly lost a blood clot and died.

The largest opposition party in Georgia, the United National Movement, initiated the collection of signatures for the release of ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili from prison.