A new criminal case was opened against political prisoner Rais Mavlyutov under the article on promoting terrorist activities. In 2021, he was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in a maximum security colony.

On the night of December 4, in the city of Urus-Martan, representatives of federal forces detained a local resident, Saipudin Umarovich Bopayev, born in 1942. (according to other sources, born in 1965). Before the start of the second Chechen campaign, Bopayev worked as the director of the state farm “Gorets” in the Urus-Martan district.

On December 11, the Shali City Court of Chechnya will consider a petition for the parole of Zarema Musaeva. However, the leadership of the colony-settlement in Argun, where the woman is serving her sentence, asked to remain in custody. This was reported by the Team Against Torture.

Over the 11 months of 2023, Russians purchased 5,784 apartments in Georgia, which is 360 more than in the entire last year. Deputy Minister of Finance of Georgia Georgiy Kakauridze said in parliament that he does not see a problem or threat in the fact that Russians are buying real estate in the country.

According to Rosstat, the average cost of a liter of gasoline in Dagestan by the end of November was 59.2 rubles. This is the highest price in the North Caucasus. At the same time, fuel turned out to be the most affordable in North Ossetia - 54.2 rubles per liter.

The police detained a man in Tyumen who was carrying a poster with the inscription “Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov – thief, murderer, shame of Russia.”

After the arrest of economist Gubad Ibadoglu on July 23, a new wave of repression against critics of the ruling regime unfolded in Azerbaijan. Currently, the number of political prisoners has exceeded 250. This was stated by the Azerbaijan Democracy and Welfare Party (ADBP).

In Dagestan, there are over 130 detainees in pre-trial detention center No. 1 on suspicion of participating in mass riots at Makhachkala airport on October 29. This was announced by the Deputy Chairman of the Public Monitoring Commission (POC) Shamil Khadulaev.

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.