The head of the Meclis.info website Imran Aliyev became a defendant in the second criminal case. He was charged under Article 206.3.1 (smuggling - in case of repetition), and before that - under Article 206.3.2 of the Criminal Code (smuggling by a group of persons). The sanctions for both articles are the same - imprisonment from 5 to 8 years.

A draft law on sanctions against 44 high-ranking officials of Azerbaijan has been submitted to the US Congress. The reason is their violation of human rights, carrying out repressions against the opposition, activists and journalists.

If a bill on foreign agents is adopted in Georgia, the United States will consider the possibility of reviewing relations with Tbilisi. This was reported by a US Senate group in a letter addressed to Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Kobakhidze.

A court in Grozny declared illegal the investigator’s decision to refuse to provide case materials to the relatives of Movsar Umarov, a native of Chechnya who was kidnapped in 2020 and disappeared without a trace.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, at a press conference in Berlin with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, expressed hope that a peace treaty will be signed between Azerbaijan and Armenia this year. According to Aliyev, there are very good opportunities to achieve peace and Baku is ready to cooperate.

The Georgian government is hiding the GRECO Council of Europe report on the situation with corruption in the country. This was reported by the non-governmental organization Transparency International Georgia (TIG).

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put the deputy head of the Congress of the Oirat-Kalmyk people, Vladimir Dovdanov, on the wanted list. Previously, a criminal case was opened against him for calls for activities directed against the security of Russia. He is charged with calling on the Armed Forces of Ukraine to destroy Russian equipment.

Law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation) against 29-year-old Taulan Kipkeev from Karachay-Cherkessia. The reason was the video material he published on social networks in November 2023. In the video, a guy walks along Red Square in Moscow and reports that the instigators of the war are sitting in the Kremlin.

The Turkish-Russian monitoring center has stopped working in the Karabakh region. It was created at the beginning of 2021 in the city of Agdam.

The German Foreign Ministry commented on the rallies taking place in Georgia against the law on “foreign agents”. Let us remember that the country's parliament adopted it in the first reading.