Two people have been prosecuted for burning the EU flag in front of the city hall. The first participant in the crime was fined, and an administrative case was initiated against the second. The materials were transferred to the Tbilisi City Court, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.

At 3 o'clock in the morning in the village of Gekhi, masked servicemen broke into the Tatarievs' house (Bolnichnaya St., 16). Members of the Tatariev family, including children of school and preschool age, were lifted out of bed.

Lawyer Alexander Nemov sent a petition to the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation to change the territorial jurisdiction in the criminal case initiated in connection with the attack on him and journalist Elena Milashina in Chechnya.

The Visaitovsky court of Grozny for the fourth time refused to satisfy the complaint of the former actor of the Grozny Russian Drama Theater Timur Debishev. He tried to appeal the investigator’s decision not to initiate a criminal case into torture.

According to ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, they want to transfer him to the Rustavi prison because there, in conditions of limited medical attention, there is a high probability of a sharp deterioration in his condition. He wrote about this on social networks, responding to the demand of ex-Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia’s party “For Georgia” to return him to prison from the clinic.

Chechnya accepted another 18 refugees from Palestine, including 12 children. They will be placed in the Gorny Klyuch camp in the Shalinsky district.

Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergei Kopyrkin stated that the country’s exit from the CSTO is not currently on the agenda. He did not answer the question about the reasons for Yerevan’s non-participation in the organization’s latest events.

Human rights, fundamental freedoms and the rule of law are important elements of the relationship between Azerbaijan and the European Union. However, Baku violates them, including by arresting journalists and activists, the EU statement said.

In the city of Urus-Martan, on Kalanchakskaya Street in front of house No. 121, a landmine was detonated. This happened at the moment when a Ural car with employees of the district commandant’s office was passing by. One of them was injured.

The authorities of Stavropol, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia and Ingushetia abandoned mass New Year's festivities. Thus, the head of Ingushetia, Mahmud-Ali Kalimatov, said that there will be no fireworks or large-scale events in the republic, except for children, due to the current socio-political situation in the country and in the world.