In 2025, Georgia took 44th place in the world rating of attractiveness of passports. It is evaluated based on the possibility of visa-free entry and obtaining a visa upon arrival.

The coast of the Caspian Sea in Dagestan is filled with dead seals thrown from the sea. Their remains on the shore near the Novolak district hospital are in the stage of decomposition.

Investigators began an investigation into the incident in the village of Essentukskaya, Predgorny District, Stavropol Territory. At school No. 7, during the New Year's celebration, some students took out the flags of Armenia and Greece at the dance and started waving them. The teacher reacted to the situation by taking away the flags from the schoolchildren.

The police opened a criminal case on the arson of the Muslim center "Nur" in Serpukhov near Moscow. The "autonomous combat group" of the banned neo-Nazi movement NS/WP Crew in Russia took responsibility for what had happened.

State Duma deputy Adam Delymkhanov said that residents of Chechnya who engage in illegal cryptocurrency mining will be severely punished and equated with terrorists. According to him, the miners' actions are causing problems with electricity.

The Sovetsky District Court of Makhachkala extended the arrest of the former mayor of Izberbash in Dagestan, Magomed Isakov, for two months.

According to the results of the annual study “Rating of Regions. KROS”, the top three “most unperturbed” subjects of the Russian Federation included Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia. The population of these republics has the lowest anxiety index.

The Cherkessk City Court will consider a criminal case of fraud against the former adviser to the head of the Karachay-Cherkessia Republic and Deputy Prime Minister Eldar Baichorov and the former head of the economic security department of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs Temirlan Baikulov.

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.