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On the 364th day of continuous protests, marchers in Tbilisi, carrying Georgian and EU flags, gathered outside the Georgian parliament demanding the release of persecuted protesters, new parliamentary elections, and the return of the country to the path of European integration and freedom.

The Tbilisi City Court has remanded in custody ten people accused of organizing riots in Tbilisi during a protest on the day of the municipal elections on October 4.

A court in Sochi sentenced 54-year-old history teacher Irina Kostrova to one and a half years in a penal colony for the repeated display of prohibited symbols.

Ethnic Ossetian Alan Gatsoev, who spent five months living in the neutral zone between Georgia and Russia, has been hospitalized in North Ossetia due to his worsening condition.

New incidents have been uncovered during the criminal investigation against Dzharulla Omarov, the former head of Dagestan's Dakhadayevsky District, who is suspected of fraud and abuse of power. According to investigators, the real estate fraud resulted in damages exceeding 200 million rubles.

The trial of Lena Patyaeva, who was detained at a picket in St. Petersburg commemorating the fate of her friend Seda Suleimanova, has been postponed. The activist will spend another night in police custody.

A Tbilisi court sentenced Nika Melia, the leader of the opposition Coalition for Change, to one year and six months in prison, ruling that the politician's attempt to throw water at a judge during a hearing in May was an insult.

Chechen Prime Minister Magomed Daudov's remarks about readiness for the heating season came amid ongoing widespread power and water outages.

Social media users expressed confidence that the torture of Kazbek Emkuzhev has become part of Russian security forces' practice of extracting confessions from suspects.

Ivan Klyukin was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,548 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

Armenian Facebook users* claimed that the Yerevan delegation should have been more persistent after being denied permission to meet with their fellow countrymen arrested in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijani users questioned whether the foreign delegation had the authority to visit the prisoners.

Police in Georgia have detained a woman suspected of beating her school-aged children.

Today, 112 members of 27 Azerbaijani families who fled the Karabakh conflict were sent back to Kelbajar. The total number of families returned to the city has reached 108.

Officials have not responded to a video appeal from Krasnodar residents calling on the mayor to meet to discuss their concerns. Activists have collected over 1,000 signatures demanding the mayor's resignation.

Relatives and friends of Rostov journalist Sergei Reznik, who fled Russia and is accused of four criminal cases, are facing demands to disclose his whereabouts.

The practice of prosecuting people for advertising on Meta* platforms is still in its infancy in Russia, and Chechen bloggers face administrative or criminal liability for advertising dubious apps and financial pyramids.

A Baku court found Khagani Omarov, Anar Salamzade, and Elchin Azizov guilty of financing terrorism and sentenced them to terms of 10 to 11 years.

The Prosecutor General's Office has filed a lawsuit against former Rostov Region Vice Governor Vladimir Okunev, his former deputy Svetlana Shapovalova, and their relatives. The office alleges that the officials have been operating a shadow auto business for many years.

Unknown activists posted leaflets in Moscow with the slogan "Seda was kidnapped" in support of Chechen native Seda Suleimanova.