Armenia continues to act as a transit country for the Russian Federation while circumventing EU sanctions. This is evidenced by the sharp increase in exports of products from European countries to Armenia since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. This was announced by Robin Brooks, chief economist at the Washington Institute of International Finance (IIF).

In the ranking of regions according to the minimum scale of bad habits, Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia took the first places. Kabardino-Balkaria is in 5th place, North Ossetia is in 16th, Karachay-Cherkessia is in 18th, RIA Novosti reports.

Between 18.15 and 18.30 local residents Maidan Khasanovich Abdurakhmanov, born in 1973, and Uvais Magomedovich Barzukaev, born in 1970, were taken away by unknown soldiers to the city of Argun and disappeared without a trace.

Journalist Amet Suleymanov, sentenced to 12 years and serving time in prison No. 2 in the Vladimir region, did not receive the necessary medications for heart failure. He has been living without them for three months now. The prisoner's family prepared and sent him a package with drugs, but it was not accepted.

According to the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, from February 2022 to November 2023, 15,506 citizens of the Russian Federation applied for a residence permit in the country.

On the night of December 2, officers of the VOVD of the Urus-Martan district attempted to detain a resident of the village of Gekhi, a possible member of the VF ChRI. But they were resisted: firing back with a pistol, the suspect ran out of the house and disappeared.

The Armenian authorities turned to the Russian Federation with a request to discuss the implementation of the agreement on cooperation in the field of mass communications. The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed the upcoming consultations.

Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili arrived in the village of Duisi in the Pankisi Gorge to present the Order of Honor to the family of the deceased representative of the Pankisi Council of Elders, Khaso Khangoshvili. Khaso Khangoshvili was also a famous writer and local historian.

On the night of December 1, three Russian military men burst into a house on the outskirts of the village of Mayrtup. They ordered Yunus Shamsuevich Visaev, a refugee temporarily living there from the village of Khidi-Khutor, to take them for vodka.

The Malgobek City Court of Ingushetia extended the arrest of Leila Gatagazheva until the end of the year. This was reported by the Memorial Human Rights Protection Center.