Since December 14, a native of Chechnya, Khumaid Khaidaev, has been on a hunger strike in pre-trial detention center No. 1 of Irkutsk. He protests against being fed food that is forbidden to Muslims and the cold in his cell. Previously, the court recognized Khaidaev’s torture as legal.

The Grozny garrison court sentenced Samat Suleymanov, a serviceman from Astrakhan, to five years in prison. He was found guilty of leaving his unit without permission. However, the reason was treatment in the hospital after being beaten by fellow soldiers.

In Ingushetia, doctor and activist Bagaudin Gaitukiev was sentenced to five years of suspended imprisonment. He was accused of aiding and abetting members of an illegal armed group. He himself denied all accusations.

In Dagestan, a city district deputy from Kizilyurt, Gamzat Shikhabudinov, was detained. He is suspected of participating in a double murder 17 years ago.

The Fifth Court of Cassation in Pyatigorsk refused to overturn the verdict in the lawsuit filed by Makhachkala resident Shamil Idrisov. Previously, he was found guilty of illegal possession of a grenade and sentenced to six years. The man reported that a prohibited item was planted by employees of the Center for Specialized Execution of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Crimean Tatars Servet Gaziev, Seitveli Seitabdiev, Eskender Suleymanov, Erfan Osmanov, Alim Karimov and Seyran Murtaza were transferred to Russian prisons. This was reported by the project “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial".

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.

The RIA Rating agency has published the final socio-economic rating of Russian regions for 2023. Ingushetia took 83rd place, ahead of only Tyva and the Jewish Autonomous Region.

On the night of December 24, the village of Chechen-Aul was blocked by the Russian military. In the morning, a “cleansing operation” began there, in which a large number of military personnel and military equipment took part (the license plates on the vehicles were covered with mud).

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.