Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev missed the informal CIS summit in St. Petersburg due to a busy work schedule. Aliyev's administration also noted that his absence from the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council on December 21 was due to Azerbaijan not being a member of the organization.
After a criminal case was opened for “justifying terrorism,” KBR native Zalina Marshenkulova was put on the federal wanted list. According to investigators, she posted publications in the public channel of the Telegram messenger that justified the murder of the Russian “military correspondent” Vladlen Tatarsky.
In her Telegram channel “Women’s Power,” Marchenkulova published several posts about Tatarsky’s death, in which she called him a “zombie” and a “bandit,” citing Tatarsky’s quote about the war against Ukraine: “We will defeat everyone, we will kill everyone, we will rob everyone we need.” . Everything will be as we like.”
The activist also called sympathy for the death of “a cannibal, an aggressor, a former robber, who supported the murders in Ukraine, which did nothing to anyone, hypocrisy.”
On April 2, 2023, an explosion occurred in a St. Petersburg cafe where a meeting with the pro-government military commander Vladlen Tatarsky was taking place. As a result, Tatarsky died. Security forces detained St. Petersburg resident Daria Trepova as the perpetrator of the action. In January 2024, she was sentenced to 27 years in prison.