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A Russian court in Donetsk sentenced Georgian citizen Georgiy Chubetidze to life in prison. He fought on the Ukrainian side and was captured by Russian forces in the fall of 2023. Human rights activists have recognized Chubetidze as a political prisoner.

Students from Ilia State University protested against education reform and marched from the university building to the Georgian Parliament. Outside the parliament building, they joined the daily protest, which is now in its 442nd day.

The Anapa City Court has remanded two minors in custody in connection with the shooting at the Anapa Industrial College – the shooter and the young man who incited him to commit the crime. One of the injured is in serious condition.

Work is underway to unblock all damaged routes in the Caucasus, including the possibility of restoring rail service between Russia and Georgia through Abkhazia.

Nika Gvaramia, leader of the Coalition for Change, has left the Rustavi penitentiary after serving an eight-month sentence for failing to appear at a meeting of the parliamentary temporary investigative commission examining the "crimes of the Saakashvili regime" from 2003 to 2012.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don found Vitaly Gaivoronsky, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, guilty of attempting a terrorist attack at the Nalchik train station and sentenced him to 20 years in prison.

The cessation of issuing Russian passports and driver's licenses in Abkhazia has created inconvenience for residents and could be used in a political struggle against the opposition, whose actions irritate Russia.

The Lazarevsky District Court of Sochi ordered the placement of a 13-year-old teenager in a temporary detention center for juvenile offenders for up to 30 days for preparing to commit a terrorist act on the grounds of his school.

Kazakh lawyers for Chechen native Mansur Movlaev twice filed notices to hold solo pickets against his extradition, but were denied.

The trial of Mehriban Rahimli, accused of illegally receiving grants, has begun in Baku. She denied the charges, stating that she had been receiving a salary from a foreign NGO for 17 years, paid in accordance with Azerbaijani law.

The head of the Russian government allocated up to 5.8 billion rubles from the reserve fund to Rosmorrechflot for work at sites where fuel oil tankers sank.

Azerbaijan's State Security Service announced the uncovering of a plot against the country's authorities involving former high-ranking officials and members of the Azerbaijani opposition. Among those named in the case are former head of the presidential administration Ramiz Mehdiyev and Popular Front Party leader Ali Karimli.

The eleventh temporary plaque in memory of Anna Politkovskaya, installed last night on her home, has disappeared. A stenciled inscription, duplicating the text on the original plaque, remains on the wall of the building where the journalist lived and was murdered.

Power outages in the Reduktorny settlement in Makhachkala are frequent and last for long periods. Residents say appeals to local officials regarding this issue have been fruitless.

Nikolai Golubov was sentenced to 11 years in prison.

The jury found representatives of the Azerbaijani diaspora, including its former head Shahin Shykhlinski, guilty of murder and attempted murder.

Aslan Dzhioyev was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have officially acknowledged at least 542 North Ossetian servicemen killed there.

Drones attacked the Millerovsky, Sholokhovsky and Tarasovsky districts.

The Krasnodar Regional Court upheld the house arrest of Alla Soboleva, who is accused of extorting an apartment from a developer.

Authorities in the Volgograd region have announced an evacuation in the village of Kotluban.