The US has expressed concern over the arrest of four journalists and activists in Azerbaijan within a week.

The Georgian authorities have submitted to the European Commission (EC) an action plan to fulfill new conditions for the country to obtain candidate status for accession to the European Union. This was stated by the EU Ambassador to Georgia Pavel Gerchinsky.

Crimean Tatar philologist and journalist Seyran Saliev, sentenced to 16 years in prison, has been under preventive registration in a colony in the Tula region for six years. However, he did not commit any violations.

The lowest paid doctors in state medical institutions work in Ingushetia. They receive an average of 52.6 thousand rubles per month, according to official data from Rosstat. This is the last (85th) place in the country for this indicator.

Member of the Georgian Parliament from the ruling Georgian Dream party, Mamuka Mdinaradze, said that the introduction of sanctions against Russia would be self-deception and would harm the residents of the republic themselves.

The first group of refugees from Palestine arrived in the Chechen Republic. 51 people will be accommodated in a health camp. In total, Chechnya is preparing to receive 250 people.

A 14-year-old schoolboy, an 8th grade student, was detained for setting fire to a relay cabinet at the Buinaksk station in Dagestan. During interrogation, the teenager confessed to the crime and said that no one forced him to start the arson and no one paid for it.

The son of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, 16-year-old Adam Kadyrov, was appointed curator of the Sheikh Mansur battalion, which is part of the Russian Ministry of Defense. The teenager also received another award - the star of the battalion. This was reported by the speaker of the Chechen parliament Magomed Daudov and State Duma deputy from Chechnya Adam Delimkhanov.

In the Leninsky district of Grozny, the Russian military carried out another operation to check the passport regime, i.e. "cleansing". And again with the same violations as the day before. For example, they broke open the doors of apartments in which the owners were absent. There were quite a few of them, because by nine in the morning people were already leaving for work.

Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili again recalled that in a Georgian prison he was poisoned with heavy metals on orders from the Russian Federation. Today it became known that the wife of the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov, Marianna Budanova, and a number of department employees were diagnosed with heavy metal poisoning, and she is in the hospital.