Immediately after his inauguration, the new president of Georgia, the nominee of the Georgian Dream party, Mikheil Kavelashvili, signed all the laws adopted in November by the parliament it formed. This was reported by the Georgian service of Radio Liberty.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that the AZAL plane that crashed in Kazakhstan was damaged "due to shelling from the ground." According to him, the tail section of the plane was severely damaged as a result of gunfire.

A farewell ceremony for the deceased crew members of the AZAL plane was held in Baku. We are talking about pilots Igor Kshnyakin and Alexander Kalyaninov, as well as flight attendant Hokuma Aliyeva. It is also reported that the bodies of 24 Azerbaijani citizens killed in the plane crash were delivered from Aktau to Baku, after which they will be handed over to their families.

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

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office must give a legal assessment of the threats made by the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, against Uzbek officials. He is obliged to publicly apologize to the people of Uzbekistan. This was stated by the country's MP Odiljon Tojiyev.

The passenger plane of the Azerbaijani airline AZAL, which crashed in the Kazakh city of Aktau on December 25, was fired upon in the airspace of the capital of Chechnya. The fact that this is a proven fact was reported by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

Only a month later, a native of Chechnya, lawyer Timur Idalov, was released from Moscow's pretrial detention center No. 4. The man was effectively illegally held in the detention center, since the court had previously sentenced him to forced labor. He accused the head of the pretrial detention center of complicity in his arrest.

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze commented on the introduction of sanctions by the United States against the founder and honorary chairman of the Georgian Dream Bidzina Ivanishvili.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin stated that attempts to speculate on human grief are absolutely unacceptable. According to him, the Russian side proceeds from the fact that before drawing any conclusions, it is necessary to wait for the results of the official investigation.