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Zabit Badalov, an activist of the opposition “Musavat” Party, was arrested for eight days on the charge of failing to pay a bank debt. The arrest of Zabit Badalov is illegal, and before he was summoned to court, the law enforcement bodies had demanded from him to stop his political activities, party colleagues of Zabit Badalov say.

Among the possible targets of a group led by Chechen native Khamzat Dokuev, who was detained in Turkey in March 2021, were former officials Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) arrested in absentia in a case on illegal timber sales, the newspaper “Sabah” reports.

Adam Bisultanov, a native of Chechnya, perished in a clash with a group of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine, the National Guard of Russia reported. Since the beginning of the special military operation, the information about at least 10 natives of the republic perished in Ukraine has been officially confirmed.

The State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) provides humanitarian assistance to Ukraine by supplying fuel free of charge. However, according to analysts, this fact does not affect relations between Baku and Moscow.

Senior Lieutenant Paizula Bagomedov has perished in Ukraine, the head of the city of Izberbash has informed. Since the start of the special operation, the deaths of at least 132 natives of Dagestan in Ukraine have been officially confirmed.

Khadji-Murad Donogo, a deputy director of the Dagestani National Museum, was forced to leave his post after the Association of Special Forces Veterans wrote a complaint against him to the head of the republic, Sergey Melikov.

The parents of Tural Sadygly, an Azerbaijani political emigrant and blogger, went out to a protest in front of the presidential administration building in Baku, but the police did not allow them to hold it.

Members of the alternative doctors' council who are monitoring the health condition of the third president of Georgia, Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, are studying the history of his illness and treatment.

The consideration of the complaint against the refusal to bring Nikol Pashinyan to criminal responsibility will be held in the open mode, the mother of a soldier who perished in Nagorno-Karabakh has stated.

Lieutenant Mizamudin Zulfikarov and Corporal Yamudin Aslanov have perished in Ukraine, the Khiva district administration has informed. Since the start of the military operation, at least 131 natives of Dagestan have been confirmed as perished there.

In the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), a criminal case has been initiated into the kidnapping in September 2014 of Aslan Khagundokov, a local resident, who is serving his sentence for killing a Rostov businessman.

Azerbaijani army units in the Tovuz and Kelbadjar Districts were shelled from the territory of Armenia, after which they returned fire, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.

At a protest action in Baku, female activists from an opposition party called on the authorities to increase benefits for children from low-income families.

Saipuddin Guchigov, the head of the “Our Home is the City of Grozny” movement, demanded to ban Filipp Kirkorov’s concerts in the Caucasus after a show in which the singer was dancing on a cross. Earlier, Filipp Kirkorov’s concert in Pyatigorsk was cancelled due to numerous people’s requests.

In Krasnodar, a court fined activist Marina Zakharchenko 15,000 roubles, considering her pacifist post on a social media outlet to be discrediting the Russian armed forces.

Several dozen parents of the military servicemen who perished in the autumn war of 2020 gathered near the building of the Investigating Committee of Armenia and demanded to arrest Nikol Pashinyan, the country's Prime Minister.

Senior Sergeant Denis Ulbrekht has perished in Ukraine, the administration of the Kamyshin District has reported.

Authorities have several times made public the death toll of Armenian soldiers in the autumn war in Nagorno-Karabakh in an attempt to hide the true number of casualties, the participants in a rally in Yerevan have stated, adding that Nikol Pashinyan should be held responsible for deaths of Armenian military servicemen.

Georgia has been invited to a meeting of NATO defence ministers; and at the upcoming summit, according to the head of the NATO office in Tbilisi, the issue of Georgia's accession will be discussed.

A criminal case on a false denunciation has been opened against Alexei Vlasenko, a Sochi resident, who had accused law enforcers of torturing him; a decision was made to detain him, the "Gulagu.net" project has reported.