In 2024, the frequency of primary diagnoses of "alcoholism" and "alcoholic psychosis" in the North Caucasus Federal District (NCFD) was significantly lower than the Russian average. According to the Russian Ministry of Health, the average for Russia was 43.4 cases per 100 thousand residents.

An incident occurred in the village of Kozet in the Takhtamukaysky district of Adygea: an unknown person placed a pig's head on the fence of a local mosque and recorded it on video. The Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Adygea and Krasnodar Krai declared the incident to be provocative in nature and contacted law enforcement agencies.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that all the awards of his son, 17-year-old Adam Kadyrov, are absolutely deserved. According to him, each of them was awarded "for specific achievements."

Drug addiction statistics in the regions of the North Caucasus are uneven and in some cases exceed the average for Russia.

The Tbilisi City Court has decided on preventive measures for two opposition representatives.

Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov announced impressive progress in reducing unemployment. According to him, this figure fell from 76% in 2007, when he headed the republic, to 4.5%.

Hakan Fidan, the Turkish Foreign Minister, said that the conclusion of a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan would create a basis for improving relations between Yerevan and Ankara. Fidan thanked Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev for his contribution to this process and expressed hope for the signing of a final agreement in Washington in the first half of next year.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Georgia has accused former Defense Minister Juansher Burchuladze of abuse of office and money laundering. The agency is preparing to appeal to the court to demand that he be taken into custody.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that Russia's contribution to the normalization of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan is difficult to overestimate, stressing that the current stage of this process began with the active participation of Russia and Vladimir Putin personally. Zakharova recalled the trilateral agreements reached in 2020-2022 with the participation of Moscow, which, according to her, stopped the bloodshed and defined the main directions of the peace process.

In Izberbash, where about 60 thousand people live, there was a water supply outage. There are also water outages in Buinaksk. The previous evening, dozens of villages in Dagestan were left without electricity. Against this background, elections to local government bodies have begun in the republic.