The Ministry of Emergency Situations warned of heavy snowfalls and ice in the regions of the North Caucasus Federal District. Due to avalanche danger, the Elbrus resort in the Kabardino-Balkaria region suspended its activities. There is also a danger of snow masses falling from the mountains of Dagestan and North Ossetia.

The RIA Rating agency has published the final socio-economic rating of Russian regions for 2023. Ingushetia took 83rd place, ahead of only Tyva and the Jewish Autonomous Region.

On the night of December 24, the village of Chechen-Aul was blocked by the Russian military. In the morning, a “cleansing operation” began there, in which a large number of military personnel and military equipment took part (the license plates on the vehicles were covered with mud).

In Kizilyurt, a 54-year-old police major from the MOVO battalion, a private security guard of the Russian Guard, was detained. He is suspected of shooting a father and son on the Caucasus federal highway in the summer of 2006.

On the western outskirts of Urus-Martan, under the bridge over the Roshnya River, the corpse of a man was discovered with signs of violent death and a bag on his head.

During the period from October to November, annual inflation in Dagestan accelerated from 8.5% to 9.4%. This is higher than the level for the North Caucasus Federal District (8.3%) and for Russia as a whole (7.4%), reports the branch of the Southern Main Directorate of the Central Bank.

Two people have been prosecuted for burning the EU flag in front of the city hall. The first participant in the crime was fined, and an administrative case was initiated against the second. The materials were transferred to the Tbilisi City Court, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.

At 3 o'clock in the morning in the village of Gekhi, masked servicemen broke into the Tatarievs' house (Bolnichnaya St., 16). Members of the Tatariev family, including children of school and preschool age, were lifted out of bed.

Lawyer Alexander Nemov sent a petition to the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation to change the territorial jurisdiction in the criminal case initiated in connection with the attack on him and journalist Elena Milashina in Chechnya.

The Visaitovsky court of Grozny for the fourth time refused to satisfy the complaint of the former actor of the Grozny Russian Drama Theater Timur Debishev. He tried to appeal the investigator’s decision not to initiate a criminal case into torture.