At night, a fire broke out in the Republican Perinatal Center in Baku. The deaths of four newborns were reported. Three more people suffered smoke inhalation and were hospitalized.

Today, the Visaitovsky Court of Grozny will continue the trial of student Nikita Zhuravel, accused of burning the Koran. Let us remind you that on December 20, the court completed the interrogation of the victims - 13 imams of mosques in Grozny. They declared the moral damage that Zhuravel caused to them and all Muslims with his act.

Armenia no longer has any expectations from the CSTO. Yerevan expected assistance from the organization during the Azerbaijani aggression in September 2023, but it did not arrive. This was announced by the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan.

Today in Makhachkala a traditional picket took place in support of political prisoner-journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev. The action was attended by the deputy editor-in-chief of the Chernovik publication Magomed Magomedov and his colleagues.

“An icon is something that people pray to. But the icon of Stalin as such does not exist.” This is how the head of the Public Relations Service of the Patriarchate of Georgia, Archpriest Andria Jagmaidze, commented on the appearance of an icon with USSR Secretary General Joseph Stalin in the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity (Tsminda Sameba) in Tbilisi.

The bank accounts of those arrested in the Abzas Media case, Ulvi Hasanli, Sevinj Vagifkizi, Nargiz Absalamova and Hafiz Babali, have been frozen. Their property was confiscated. Members of their families were also injured.

A court in Vladikavkaz sentenced serviceman Alan Ezeev to five and a half years probation. He was found guilty of leaving a military unit without permission.

A court in Chechnya fined refugee blogger Ali Bakaev 10 thousand rubles, finding him guilty of inciting national hatred and enmity. We are talking about his video criticizing the authorities of the Russian Federation and Chechnya and expressing support for Ukraine.

The day before, at a meeting with an American military expert, former Marine and intelligence officer Scott Ritter in Grozny, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that he was ready to exchange 20 Ukrainian prisoners of war for the lifting of sanctions against his mother, daughters, children and wife.

Islam is a powerful religion, and devoutly religious fanatics are capable of any sacrifice in order to defend their idea of the structure of the world, says Russian State Duma deputy Mikhail Matveev. “We see how they are conquering more and more living space,” he said.