The Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum has published a ranking of post-Soviet countries in terms of democratic development and European integration.

Chechnya took second place after Moscow among the regions of the Russian Federation in terms of the number of missing people in 2023. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, their number reached 1608 and 2014, respectively. At the same time, Chechnya is nine times smaller than the capital in terms of population.

In Moscow, Igor Strelkov (Girkin) was sentenced to four years in prison in the case of calls for extremism. He was also banned from administering websites and pages on social networks for three years.

A court in Karachay-Cherkessia sentenced 59-year-old Jehovah's Witness Elena Menchikova to 4.5 years of suspended imprisonment. She was found guilty under the article on participation in extremist activities.

The Azerbaijani authorities have extended the arrest of the former head of Nagorno-Karabakh Ruben Vardanyan for four months.

A native of Dagestan, Omar Murtazaliev again spoke about torture and abuse of Muslims in IK-2 of the Kurgan region. According to him, FSIN employees threw the Koran on the ground and assaulted him.

The main opposition party of Georgia, the United National Movement (UNM), called on the Ukrainian authorities to investigate the facts of inhumane treatment of ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili. The reason for the request was the fact that the politician is a citizen of Ukraine.

Law enforcement agencies of Ingushetia opened a criminal case for calls for extremism against blogger Adam Aushev. The reason was a video he published in 2021, reports the Sapa Caucasus telegram channel.

In 2023, 348 people died as a result of car accidents in Dagestan. The republic took fifth place in this anti-record, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.

The Shatoisky District Court in Chechnya brought local residents Beslan Yusupov and Iles Paykhaev to administrative responsibility for disseminating the work of the Chechen bard Timur Mutsuraev. They made publicly available the composition “12 thousand Mujahideen,” which had previously been recognized as extremist material in the Russian Federation.