The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, held a meeting with the heads of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Guard. He recalled that their relatives will also be held responsible for the actions of all “extremists and terrorists” operating from abroad.

The Supreme Court of Adygea found a Maykop resident guilty of treason and sentenced him to 4.5 years in prison.
According to the investigation and the court, from the end of 2021 to the beginning of 2023, the minor took photographs of the locations of military units of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the territory of Maykop.

Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze responded to complaints from a number of Georgian artists that the authorities do not invite them to perform at New Year’s concerts in any regions.

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.

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.

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.

Chechnya accepted another 18 refugees from Palestine, including 12 children. They will be placed in the Gorny Klyuch camp in the Shalinsky district.

The authorities of Stavropol, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia and Ingushetia abandoned mass New Year's festivities. Thus, the head of Ingushetia, Mahmud-Ali Kalimatov, said that there will be no fireworks or large-scale events in the republic, except for children, due to the current socio-political situation in the country and in the world.

On December 21, 40 Palestinian refugees arrived in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, 26 of them were children. The guests were accommodated at a recreation center in the resort town of Teberda, the head of the republic, Rashid Temrezov, said in his Telegram channel.

According to a study by the Sober Russia movement, in 2023 the most non-drinking regions were Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia. They are followed by Karachay-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria. In 2022, the first five lines of the ranking were occupied by these same republics.