Russia sent invitations to meetings in Moscow to Yerevan and Baku. Azerbaijan has always confirmed its readiness, which cannot be said about its Armenian partners, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.

Crimean Tatar human rights activist was fined for the second time for “discrediting” the Russian army

In the near future, Ingushetia will accept hundreds of Palestinian refugees

The Belogorsk Magistrate's Court decided to fine human rights activist Abdureshit Dzhepparov 40 thousand rubles for “abuse of freedom of mass information” and “disagreement with the actions of the RF Armed Forces.”

Society

Armenia again refused to participate in the CSTO event

The first group of Palestinian refugees, consisting of 100 people, will arrive in Ingushetia in the coming days by train.

Politics

Chronicle of Wars and Crimes

Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Alen Simonyan will not take part in the meeting of the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly in Moscow on December 19. The delegation of the Armenian Parliament will also not attend the event.

Kidnappings of men in Gekhi-Chu and Grozny, shootout in Starye Atagi, bombing of a house in Urus-Martan, “cleansing” of mountain villages

At dawn, in the village of Gekhi-Chu, masked federal servicemen detained Vakha Gabisovich Tukaev, born in 1977. This happened according to what has become a “classic” scenario. The military surrounded the Tukaevs' household and broke into the house.

They want to sentence natives of Chechnya for participating in the death of Pskov paratroopers in the absence of evidence

Arslan Taushev and Rasul Koshmanbetov, previously sentenced to eight years, were again charged after their release - this time with an attack on Pskov paratroopers. The defendants alleged torture and falsification of the case.

An activist kidnapped in Georgia ended up in a Russian pre-trial detention center

A TV presenter from Tatarstan was outraged by the words of a State Duma deputy that “Avars, Chechens, Tatars are all Russians”

Activist Rafail Shepelev ended up in a pre-trial detention center in Nizhny Tagil a month and a half after being abducted from Georgia. It is reported that the man was deceived from Tbilisi to South Ossetia, where he was detained by Russian security forces. All documents of the stolen person remained in Georgia.

Society

In the North Caucasian Federal District, only 78 people officially receive an income of over 1 million rubles

The presenter and general director of the republican television channel of Tatarstan, Ilshat Aminov, publicly responded to the recent statement of State Duma deputy Pyotr Tolstoy.

Economy

The regions of the North Caucasian Federal District took the last places in the ranking of ultra-high salaries - over 1 million rubles per month. Only 78 people there receive these.

In the KBR, the SVO participant was sentenced to five and a half years