Around 30 human rights defenders and activists from the North Caucasus and Krasnodar Krai have demanded that the criminal prosecution of journalist Larisa Tuptsokova be dropped, declaring the absence of a crime.

Alan Khokhoev, a former police officer from North Ossetia, sentenced to 10 years in a maximum-security prison colony for torture resulting in death, died in the war with Ukraine.

Nika Gvaramia, the imprisoned leader of the Coalition for Change, commented on the ruling Georgian Dream party's lawsuit to ban some opposition parties.

The Nalchik Garrison Military Court found Alim Shkakhov, a serviceman from Kabardino-Balkaria, guilty of evading military service during mobilization.