The signatories of the appeal in defense of scientists of the Institute for Humanitarian Research of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic are under pressure, they are summoned to law enforcement agencies. This was reported by the Memorial Human Rights Protection Center.

Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine submitted for consideration a draft resolution recognizing the right of the Ingush people to self-determination and the creation of an independent national state. In addition, the document condemns the mass deportation of Ingush to the USSR in 1944.

An audio recording of conversations about prayer, secretly made in a mosque back in 2015, became evidence for the prosecution in the case of the “first Jankoy group” of Hizb ut-Tahrir. Previously, its participants - activist Enver Krosh, journalist Vilen Temeryanov, Rinat Aliyev, Murat Mustafayev, Seityagi Abbozov and Edem Bekirov - were recognized as political prisoners.

In Dagestan, security forces detained a former member of the detachment of Chechen field commanders Shamil Basayev and Khattab. Ibragim Magomedov is accused of participating in an attack on the Novolaksky region of Dagestan in 1999 during the second Russian-Chechen war.

According to a study by the Sober Russia movement, in 2023 the most non-drinking regions were Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia. They are followed by Karachay-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria. In 2022, the first five lines of the ranking were occupied by these same republics.

The Baku Serious Crimes Court sentenced activist Samir Ashurov to 6.5 years in prison. He was accused of stabbing a man.

The Lefortovo court in Moscow extended the arrest of 25-year-old Ukrainian citizen and Crimean Tatar Leniya Umerova until March 4, 2025. Russian authorities accuse her of espionage. The lawyers insisted on a written undertaking not to leave the place. They are not informed about investigative actions.

On the night of December 18, in the village of Serzhen-Yurt, unknown masked people burst into the house of Akhmed Abdulsalamovich Ezhiev.

In the primary housing market, the largest growth in the Russian Federation since the beginning of the year occurred in Makhachkala - by 107%. This was reported by World of Apartments analysts.

Today, two more people were nominated to participate in the early presidential elections in Azerbaijan. These are the chairman of the All-Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, member of the country's parliament Gudrat Hasanguliyev and the leader of the National Front Party, deputy Razi Nurullayev.