In the Russian Federation, the share of families that are able to buy and own a new inexpensive car on credit is 18.9%. However, in the regions of the North Caucasian Federal District there are much fewer of them, noted RIA Novosti.

The Southern District Military Court upheld the sentence against contract soldier from Dagestan Nurislam Magomedov. He was sentenced to six years in prison, having been found guilty of leaving his unit without permission.

At 3 o'clock in the morning in the village of Katyr-Yurt, employees of Russian security forces kidnapped Vakhid Elsaev, Shamkhan Anzorov (in some sources - Anzurov) and Adlan Mitrishev.

The day before, the chairman of the Great Azerbaijan Party, Elshad Musayev, nominated his candidacy for the country's upcoming presidential elections. Earlier, similar statements were made by the chairman of the board of the Center for Social Research, member of the Azerbaijani parliament Zahid Oruj and the head of the Great Meeting party and the parliamentary culture committee Fazil Mustafa.

At about 2 a.m. in the village of Tsotsin-Yurt, masked servicemen broke into the house of the Vezievs, living on Stepnaya Street. The military drove up to the house in an UAZ. Before entering the house, they opened fire with automatic weapons, shooting out all the lanterns intended to illuminate the yard.

In the Georgian Legion, all the guys are obsessed with the idea of European integration of their country. It is still moving towards a pro-European context. This is how the commander of the unit fighting in Ukraine, Mamuka Mamulashvili, commented on the granting of EU candidate status to Georgia.

The son of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, 16-year-old Adam, was appointed curator of the Baysangur Benoevsky battalion, which is part of the North Caucasus district of the Russian Guard troops. Chechen Minister of National Policy Dudayev wrote about this in his TG channel.

In the village of Gekhi, the military carried out an unauthorized search in the house of Musa Khamzaev. No prohibited items were found. And yet, law enforcement officers detained Musa’s son, Isa Khamzaev, born in 1983. The detainee was taken away in a UAZ-452 (“tabletka”) car with a red cross and the inscription “Medical Service”.

Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili commented on the decision of the European Council to grant Georgia candidate status for accession to the European Union.

Security forces detained a 42-year-old man in Nalchik. During interrogation, he admitted that he was in contact with Ukrainian curators by telephone and planned to blow up the building of the city railway station by the New Year. This was reported in the ASTRA telegram channel.