A court in Baku extended the initial sentence of imprisonment for two months for the head of the Internet television channel “Channel 13” Aziz Orujev and an employee of this media outlet Shamo Eminov.

Activist from Dagestan Ibragim Parkuev was detained on July 15 and released from a special detention center on July 17. According to him, in this way the police limited his freedom on the days of voting in the presidential election.

The Moscow City Court refused to recognize as illegal the decision to initiate a criminal case against a native of Chechnya, Ilyas Yakubov. Previously, the MMA athlete was arrested on charges of justifying terrorism. The reason for the arrest was his publication on social networks.

Jens Stoltenberg, at a meeting in Yerevan with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, called on Armenia to quickly sign a peace agreement with Azerbaijan. “Baku and Yerevan can achieve lasting peace,” the guest said.

In Vladikavkaz, a criminal case was opened against a serviceman for calls for terrorism due to a comment on Vkontakte.

A court in Makhachkala arrested two residents of Dagestan in absentia. They were also put on the wanted list on charges of treason.

From March 30, Russian Mir bank cards will stop working in most banks in Armenia. An exception will be branches of VTB Armenia. Only in them will it be possible to withdraw cash and make online purchases.

On average, employees of government agencies in the regions of the North Caucasus receive from 53 to 55 thousand rubles per month. This is the highest salary in the industry.

The total number of political prisoners in Azerbaijan has reached 288 people. This is 43 more people than at the end of 2023, the Freedom Union of Political Prisoners of Azerbaijan reported.

The Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for Chechnya reported that after conducting a procedural check against the employees of the pre-trial detention center No. 1 of Grozny, they were subject to “disciplinary liability.” The reason was the admission to the detention center of the minor Adam Kadyrov, who beat the prisoner Nikita Zhuravel, accused of burning the Koran.