Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) has suspended flights from Baku to Astrakhan and back "for security reasons." This was reported by the press service of the airline. The duration of the restriction is not specified.

Средние суммы сбережений на банковских счетах жителей Ингушетии и Чечни составляют 24,6 и 29,6 тысяч рублей соответственно. Это худшие результаты по России – 85-е и 84-е места в рейтинге «РИА Новости».

Restrictions have been introduced at the airports of Vladikavkaz, Grozny and Makhachkala. Since 07:44, they have not been accepting or sending planes. This was reported by the press secretary of the Federal Air Transport Agency, Artem Korenyako, in a telegram channel.

On Sunday, a previously announced protest took place on the Tbilisi-Senaki-Leselidze highway. Demonstrators managed to partially block the road near the Tbilisi Mall and impede traffic, but the police returned them to the sidewalk. Some of the protesters went inside the mall.

In 2024, Russians began to make money transfers abroad much less often. The largest drop concerns transfers to Georgia - minus 65% ($ 541.2 million). Next comes Azerbaijan - minus 50% ($ 410.7 million).

A rally dispersal with new arrests is expected in the Georgian capital today. The country's Interior Ministry has issued a warning about the unacceptability of the announced protest with blocking roads at the entrance and exit of Tbilisi. The activists published the corresponding announcement in the Daitove Facebook group on January 30.

Today, February 1, the fifth President of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili arrived in Batumi to support the protesters gathered at Shota Rustaveli State University. Hundreds of university students and activists organized a rally under the slogan "No to the Russian regime", demanding the release of the founder and director of the publishing group "Batumelebi Newspaper" Mzia Amaglobeli.

In the courts of general jurisdiction of the North Caucasus Federal District, Krasnodar Krai and Rostov Oblast, the staff shortage has grown to 509 vacancies. This is a third more than in 2023.

Despite all attempts by Yerevan to organize a meeting between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and US President Donald Trump in Washington, this failed. This was reported by the local newspaper Hraparak.

At today's joint briefing, the Georgian opposition appealed to the new Syrian authorities to revoke recognition of the self-proclaimed Republic of Abkhazia. The leader of the "Coalition for Change" Nika Gvaramia noted that putting forward such demands is the prerogative of the Georgian government, but "under the conditions of the practically Russian authorities, this is impossible."