A 13-year-old teenager has been detained in Astrakhan. Investigators suspect him of planning terrorist attacks in the Astrakhan region and Dagestan using improvised explosive devices.

Journalist Ganimat Zahid has been sentenced in absentia by a Baku court to seven years in prison. He was found guilty of incitement against the state. According to the prosecution, in July 2018, Zahid published materials on YouTube containing open calls for violent actions against the Azerbaijani authorities.

In Nalchik, a court sentenced Vaisul Karagulov, finding him guilty of leaving his military unit without leave during mobilization. He was sentenced to one year in a general regime penal colony. According to the case file, Karagulov left his duty station without valid reason on September 19, 2025, and was detained by police in Mozdok on October 15. He fully admitted his guilt in court.

The Sovetsky District Court of Makhachkala ruled that police actions against journalists Magomed Magomedov and Idris Yusupov, detained in January 2023, were illegal.

The Prosecutor General's Office of the self-proclaimed Republic of South Ossetia announced the arrest of a Georgian citizen on charges of espionage. According to media reports, she is civil activist Tamara Mearakishvili.

The Memorial Human Rights Center has recognized Georgian citizen Irakli Khufeniya as a political prisoner. In June, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don found him guilty of publicly justifying terrorism and sentenced him to two years in prison.

Grigol Liluashvili, the former head of Georgia's State Security Service, has been arrested on bribery charges.

Kabardino-Balkarian Governor Kazbek Kokov held a joint meeting of the Anti-Terrorism Commission and the Operational Headquarters, where they discussed security issues during the New Year holidays, countering terrorist ideology, and preventative work with youth.

Chechnya's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, was awarded the honorary badge "For Achievements in Sports." The award was given for his enormous contribution to the development and popularization of sports in the Chechen Republic.

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.