The fifth president of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, who does not recognize the legitimacy of the government and her successor, announced the opening of a new presidential office in Tbilisi and promised to continue the fight against the "Georgian Dream" policy. In addition, she announced that she intends to attend the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump.

Dynamics of price growth for housing up to 32 square meters. m for 2024 in Grozny amounted to 55.4%. According to this indicator, the capital of Chechnya was among the leaders among cities with a population of over 300,000. человек, reported by the "World of Apartments" portal. On average, such an apartment in Grozny costs almost 2 million rubles.

More than 1 billion rubles in bitcoins will be seized from Marat Tambiev, a native of the KKR, the former head of the investigative department of the SKR in the Tver district of Moscow. Earlier, he was sentenced to a long term for receiving a large bribe from hackers for favorable decisions in their cases.

Today, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted Draft Resolution No. 11347, which recognized the genocide of the Circassians by the Russian Empire during the Caucasian War of 1763-1864. The decision was supported by 232 deputies.

A resident of Argun - 19-year-old Vyskhan Tazurkaev - was abducted by security forces. He was detained in the Argun district police station, where he was questioned with electric shock, as a result of which he died. Such information was shared by the opposition Telegram channel Niyso.

The Government of Armenia approved the draft law on launching the process of the country's accession to the European Union. It is sent to the parliament for adoption.

The GSU of the Investigative Committee of Russia completed the investigation of the criminal case of the murder of businessman Tair Gurshumov in Moscow in 1996 and the attempted attack of singer Avraham Russo in 2006. The organization of the criminals was incriminated against the former free fighter from Chechnya Tarkhan Eldukayev. According to the investigation, he acted on the orders of the businessman Telman Ismailov, who was declared on the international wanted list.

A member of the Coordination Council at the Public Chamber, Vladimir Karasev, after the reaction from Azerbaijan for the insults inflicted on President Ilham Aliyev, stated that his words were misunderstood. He claims that by the expression "about pida...sah" he meant the Spanish word "pidas", which supposedly means "people who make demands".

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.

At a meeting with journalists in Yerevan, the head of the country's Foreign Ministry, Ararat Mirzoyan, said that if there is trust between Armenia and Turkey and there is an open border, local border guards will be able to protect it instead of the Russian ones. He also noted that the issue of withdrawing the 102nd Russian base from Armenia has not yet been resolved.