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Georgia's third president, Mikheil Saakashvili, has been returned to prison. The Georgian Penitentiary Service explained his transfer by citing an improvement in the convicted politician's condition.

Aishat Baimuradova fled Chechnya due to beatings and death threats from her husband's family. Due to her lack of a passport, she was restricted to visa-free countries. After her escape, Baimuradova said she was happy to live in a peaceful environment, free from threats.

David Machavariani, who is on a hunger strike outside the Georgian parliament, was taken to the hospital due to deteriorating health, but rejoined the protesters today. Eight people are still on the hunger strike, entering their 16th day.

A Tbilisi court has remanded Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Sadigov in custody for seven days for participating in roadblocks. The October 19-21 protests, the case heard by the court today, had already taken place by the time the initial arrest warrant was issued, his defense stated, announcing its intention to appeal the arrest.

In Dagestan, a criminal investigation has been completed against six police officers in the Nogai District. Five officers and the head of the investigation team are accused of falsifying evidence in the criminal case and using violence against a detainee.

Over the past seven years, the Investigative Committee has issued 34 decisions refusing to open a criminal case against Nalchik resident Timur Zhambekov for the torture. He has already served his sentence for the case, in which his confession was extracted after being beaten and electrocuted by security forces, but even the investigation into his torture allegations has only been partially completed.

After truck drivers from the Rostov Region, Kuban, Stavropol, Dagestan, Kalmykia, and Chechnya recorded a petition demanding an inspection of the checkpoint in the Kagalnitsky District, Rostransnadzor announced plans to conduct a test. The fines jeopardized the operations of companies and private carriers.

Anton Shikhov, Dmitry Neumyvakin, and Alexey Shevchenko were killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,493 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

The court sentenced Rostovvodokanal CEO Evgeny Yurkin to a term in a penal colony, finding him guilty of disclosing state secrets.

A Lockheed C-130 Hercules military transport plane carrying 20 Turkish military personnel crashed near the border with Azerbaijan in Georgia, killing all.

The administrative case of Mozdok resident Yulia Melnichenko, detained on October 30 for picketing outside the North Ossetian prosecutor's office, has been refiled. The first time, the court returned the report to the police, citing it as having been filed by "unauthorized persons."

As in previous days, security forces prevented protesters in Tbilisi from entering the roadway and also prohibited them from walking on the sidewalk. Nevertheless, the activists marched from the parliament building to the government building and back.

For the third week now, the Georgian Ministry of Health has refused to allocate an ambulance to monitor the health of hunger strikers outside the Georgian parliament building.

Air defense forces repelled a drone attack on the Volgograd region's power infrastructure. Power is out in the Kikvidzensky, Uryupinsky, Novonikolaevsky, and Novoaninsky districts.

A shipment of wheat from Kazakhstan arrived in Armenia today, having traveled through Russia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. The wheat delivery was made possible by an agreement between the leaders of Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan to resume cargo transit to Yerevan.

A typical funeral in Volgograd costs over 100,000 rubles, local residents said, commenting on the authorities' decision to pay one million rubles to the family of a man killed in a drone attack. Such payments are essentially voluntary, and their amount is not legally regulated.

Marina Akhmedova, a member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights, responded to a publication by Chechen Ombudsman Mansur Soltayev demanding an apology to the commander of the Akhmat special forces unit. Akhmedova reiterated her assessment of Apti Alaudinov, without naming him or Soltayev.

Temporary restrictions on the arrival and departure of aircraft have been introduced at Volgograd Airport.

On the 345th day of uninterrupted protests, security forces again prevented demonstrators from blocking traffic on Rustaveli Avenue. Supporters of Georgia's European integration organized a march around the parliament building.

Elbrus Datsiev, Eduard Dyatlov, and Dakhir Aydemirov were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, at least 506 fighters from North Ossetia have been officially recognized as killed there.