Major General Vladimir Kotov, who previously held the position of deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Voronezh Region, was appointed Minister of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia. The ceremony to introduce the new head of the department took place in Magas. Kotov replaced Police Lieutenant General Mikhail Korobkin in this post, who was relieved of his post by decree of the President of the Russian Federation in September.

Due to discovered cases of vote cheating, the Bank of Russia canceled the results of the vote for the design of the reverse side of the new 500-ruble banknote. As of yesterday, the image of Elbrus was ahead of Grozny City. The regulator promises to review the voting conditions to prevent such abuses in the future. New dates will be announced later.

Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili accused the European Union of double standards, saying that Brussels continues to side with extremism until it condemns the violent actions that occurred on October 4. “Until Brussels condemns and dissociates itself from the violent storming of the presidential palace by factions it supports, it will remain a supporter of extremism,” Papuashvili wrote.

In Moscow, blogger Areg Shchepikhin was sentenced to 5 years in prison. The defense announced its intention to appeal the verdict. In addition to the actual sentence, the defendant was given a ban on administering websites and publishing materials on the Internet for 2.5 years after his release. Previously, the prosecutor's office asked to ban Shchepikhin from administering Internet resources for 4 years.

The fifth President of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, commented on the release in Yerevan of Georgiy Kinoyan, who was detained while crossing the Georgian-Armenian border. “Armenia shows that protecting human rights is important. Georgian fighter Georgiy Kinoyan was released after Armenia rejected Russia's request for his extradition.

Lawyers for Russian citizen, billionaire Samvel Karapetyan, reported that the investigation in Armenia brought forward a new charge of an economic nature against him. The defense claims that the accusation is unfounded and lacks any legal basis. Let us recall that earlier the Armenian parliament supported a bill that would allow the nationalization of Karapetyan’s company Electric Networks of Armenia. Samvel Karapetyan was arrested on June 19 in Yerevan.