According to the order of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, December 26 has been declared a Day of Mourning in memory of the victims of the AZAL plane crash.

The Magas District Court extended Usman Aushev's detention by two months. The former mayor of Ingushetia has been in pretrial detention for four months already.

The Russian government has banned cryptocurrency mining in the republics of the North Caucasus since 2025. The list includes Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia and Chechnya.

The Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of Russia has withdrawn a fatwa allowing polygamy. This decision was made after the Prosecutor General's Office submitted a corresponding submission. This was reported by the chairman of the council of ulemas (scholars and theologians) Shamil Alyautdinov.

Police detained a 16-year-old teenager in Derbent, Dagestan. He is suspected of calling educational institutions from September to December and reporting that their buildings were mined. During interrogation, he explained that he did this in order to "disrupt classes and not attend them."

The Orel City Council deputies voted to develop a project for the Alley of Victors. Monuments to Stalin, Zhukov, and Rokossovsky will be erected there.

A large-scale protest action will take place in several cities of Georgia at 15:00 on December 28, the SOVA Telegram channel reports. The demonstrators will form a human chain - the so-called "chain of unity".

A bust of Joseph Stalin has appeared in the village of Nart in the Ardon district of North Ossetia. As noted by the chairman of the public movement "For Our Vladikavkaz" Kazbek Tautiev, the appearance of new monuments to the leader of the USSR is explained by the society's demand for an objective coverage of history.

Russian President Vladimir Putin cited Chechnya and Tuva as an example to other regions, where the highest birth rate in the country is recorded. Answering a journalist's question during a direct line, the head of state said that these two regions do not need separate programs to stimulate the birth rate.

A new criminal case has been opened against the former deputy of the Ingush parliament, former head of the regional Social Insurance Fund (FSS) Yakub Belkhoroev, who was previously sentenced to 9 years in prison for embezzlement on an especially large scale. According to the investigation, while managing the FSS, he embezzled more than 13 million rubles from the budget as social payments to his relatives. Allegedly, they suffered as a result of traffic accidents and industrial accidents, which in fact did not happen.