The day before, during an online connection during a court hearing, ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili said that Georgians are depressed.

Mercenaries from different countries are fighting for Ukraine against the Russian Federation. Most of them are from Poland, in second place is from the USA, in third place is from Georgia. Russian President Putin announced this in a television interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson.

In Crimean Alushta, the court hearing on the administrative protocol against local imam Yusuf Ashirov has been extended for the second time. He is accused of illegal missionary activity.

In an interview with American TV presenter Tucker Carlson, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is ready to exchange The Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich for Russian citizen Vadim Krasikov. The latter is serving a life sentence in Germany for the murder of Chechen Zelimkhan Khangoshvili.

Serious violations were recorded during the voting and counting of votes in the presidential elections in Azerbaijan on February 7. Among them are ballot stuffing, voters arriving in groups, and unregistered voters voting. This is stated in the preliminary conclusion of the joint observation mission of the OSCE and OSCE/ODIHR.

President Salome Zurabishvili signed an order appointing Irakli Kobakhidze to the post of head of the Georgian government. Earlier, the country’s parliament expressed confidence in him: 84 deputies voted for, 10 against.

The Derbent City Court reduced the amount of compensation to Temirkhan Amakhanov for beating by police officers by 12 and a half times. He asked to pay five million rubles, but the court decided to collect 400 thousand.

The court in Crimea refused to count the time Rustem Emiruseinov was kept in a pre-trial detention center against the period of his stay in prison. He has been in prison in the city of Balashov, Saratov region, for more than a year, which contradicts the length of his sentence.

The average old-age pension in Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia and Karachay-Cherkessia is from 14 to 16 thousand rubles per month. These are the lowest pension payments in the Russian Federation. The situation is slightly better in Chechnya and North Ossetia - about 16.5 thousand rubles.

The Supreme Court of Ingushetia sentenced Beslan Tsechoyev to five years in prison. He was found guilty of “preparing for treason by going over to the enemy’s side.” He was also charged with illegal possession of weapons.