The Makhachkala Garrison Court sentenced contract soldiers Akhmed Kurbanov and Edgar Ibadullaev to two years in a penal colony. They were found guilty of refusing to comply with command orders and going to Ukraine on the SVO.

Rosstat named the regions with the fastest production growth in 2023. Ingushetia and Dagestan entered the TOP 10, taking fourth and ninth places, respectively. The growth of industrial production in Ingushetia amounted to 17.1%, in Dagestan – 14.4%.

Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili delivered an annual report to the country's parliament. According to her, Russia continues to wage a hybrid war against Georgia, using new formats.

The meeting scheduled for today in the Fifth Court of Cassation in Pyatigorsk to consider the complaint against the conviction of Zarema Musaeva did not take place. At the same time, lawyer Alexander Savin learned about her transfer from a colony-settlement in the city of Argun to another, as yet unknown colony, the “Team Against Torture” reported.

Prisoners of IK-2 in Kalmykia, natives of Dagestan Magomed Atimagomedov and Daud Kuramagomedov, received 25 years in prison and a life sentence. They were found guilty of attacking prison staff and calling for mass riots. Two victims were injured, one of them died.

The senior mechanic of the floating crane Yuri Khuaz from Adygea was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses “Discrediting the Armed Forces of Russia” and was fined.

A court in Rostov-on-Don arrested the director of a Stavropol closed-type school, Stepan Lyubenko, in the case of sending students to clean their house. He is accused of using forced labor of children, negligence resulting in serious injury to a student, and other crimes.

Peace, development and a European future will be offered by Georgia to occupied Abkhazia and South Ossetia. This was stated in parliament by the candidate for the post of State Minister of Georgia for Reconciliation and Civil Equality, Teya Akhvlediani.

On February 5, 2000, during the second Russian-Chechen war, federal troops carried out a massacre of residents in the village. New Aldy of Grozny.

In Dagestan, 18-year-old Nadyrkhan Kadirkhanov, detained on suspicion of murdering mixed martial arts fighter Magomed Mutaev, announced conflicts with him. According to the guy, first he was beaten by the athlete’s friends, and then by Mutaev himself and his comrades.