The presence of the 102nd Russian military base in Armenia is the only real guarantee of the country’s sovereignty. The idea that their withdrawal will somehow strengthen the military potential of the republic is dangerous demagoguery. This statement was released by the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The Supreme Court of Chechnya decided to send the criminal case of tortured actor Timur Debishev for a new trial. Thus, for the fifth time, the highest regional court did not support the refusal to investigate a crime based on the complaint of the Team Against Torture.

Political prisoner Tofik Abdulgaziev, sentenced to 12 years in prison, was transferred from intensive care to the department of the hospital in Verkhneuralsk, Chelyabinsk region. However, his condition remains serious.

The co-founder of the Emigration for Action project to help Ukrainian refugees, Igor Myglan, was expelled from Georgia. He was not allowed out of the airport for a day, after which he was forced to fly to Turkey.

The Armenian authorities have banned the broadcast of original programs “Evening with Vladimir Solovyov” and “Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov.” They were broadcast on the public broadcast network on the RTR-Planeta TV channel. The reason for the ban was stated to be “constant violations”, as well as insults of Armenian officials by program participants.

Azerbaijani journalist Polad Aslanov, sentenced to 13 years, reported that the prosecutor’s office did not forward decisions on his complaints.

The Armenian leadership, under far-fetched pretexts, distorting the history of the last three years, is deliberately leading to the collapse of relations with the Russian Federation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with Izvestia.

In Cherkessk, Jehovah's Witness Vladimir Fomin was sent to a pre-trial detention center in the case of an extremist organization. During the meeting, a believer with a group II disability lost consciousness and had to call an ambulance.

Law enforcement officers detained the chairman of the Magas district court, Magomed Aushev, and the judge of the Supreme Court of the republic, Sergei Boychuk. They are accused of receiving bribes from representatives of the Batalkhadzhin organized crime community in order to give them lenient sentences.

FSB officers published a video of the detention in the Kherson region of Ukraine of 66-year-old Crimean Tatar Bilyal Abdurakhmanov, who opposed the annexation of Crimea. A criminal case has been initiated against him under Part 2 of Art. 208 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in an illegal armed formation). The man faces up to 15 years in prison.