The republics of the North Caucasus topped the list of regions with the lowest housing rental affordability. In Kabardino-Balkaria and Chechnya, only 16.2% of families with two children can afford to rent a typical two-room apartment. These are the data from a RIA Novosti study.

Chechen security forces have returned to the practice of "sweeps": they are detaining local residents. People are offered a choice: either they will go to the "SVO", or a criminal case will be opened against them.

A demonstration of opposition supporters against the results of the parliamentary elections was held in Tbilisi. Participants marched to the parliament building on Rustaveli Avenue and held a protest there.

Polad Aslanov, a journalist from Azerbaijan who was sentenced to 13 years, has gone on hunger strike again. He demanded the release of himself and other political prisoners on the eve of the international climate conference in Baku.

SVO participants from the Kazbekovsky district of the republic addressed the head of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov. They demanded that local Chechens be sent to war, who, in their opinion, are holding onto land plots and interfering with their distribution.

Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili congratulated Maia Sandu on her victory in the second round of the presidential elections in Moldova.

Deputy Chief of Logistics of the Russian Guard, former Deputy Commander of the Southern District of the Russian Guard Mirza Mirzaev was arrested in Moscow on charges of receiving a bribe in the amount of 140 million rubles.

Georgian oppositionists who do not recognize the results of the October parliamentary elections are actively working to organize a European Union mission to investigate violations of the voting procedure. This was stated by Ana Dolidze, a representative of the opposition party Strong Georgia.

The Georgian government is clearly pro-European, because the Constitution defines European integration as a priority of the country's foreign policy. This was stated by the Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Kobakhidze.

The Nalchik Garrison Military Court sentenced a native of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, mobilized Asker Nebezhev, to three years and six months in prison. The participant in the hostilities in Ukraine was found guilty of dodging military service twice.