Azerbaijan strongly rejects the unfounded accusations against it regarding territorial claims against Armenia put forward by the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Relations, Josep Joseph Borel. This was stated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan.

In the Cherkessk court, the state prosecution requested five years in a general regime colony for Jehovah's Witness with a disability, Elena Menchikova. She is accused of participating in an extremist organization.

At the end of 2023, the growth of domestic tourist flow in Russia amounted to 10%. According to analytics from the hotel booking service MTS Travel, travelers showed the greatest interest in the North Caucasus.

Last year, the military court in Grozny considered 78 criminal cases. It is noteworthy that most of them are about unauthorized abandonment of a military unit and desertion in conditions of hostilities and mobilization. In 2022 there were 23 of them, in 2023 - 47.

In Baku, the police stopped an uncoordinated protest action announced under the slogan “No to fake elections!” It was announced the day before by a political emigrant in Europe, activist Tural Sadygly.

The fourth group of refugees from the Gaza Strip has arrived in Ingushetia. It included 32 people, 23 of them were children.

In the Ukrainian Melitopol, controlled by the Russian army, fighters of the Chechen battalion "Akhmat-Vostok" beat up Russian soldiers who asked them for documents at a checkpoint, also threatening to use weapons.

In Tbilisi and Yerevan, emigrants from Russia and local residents held actions against the country's military invasion of Ukraine, as well as against political repression in the Russian Federation.

The Supreme Court of North Ossetia terminated the administrative case against local resident Eduard Kerashvili, whom security forces accused of discrediting the army. The court actually refused to allow the leadership of the Center for the Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to consider the case due to the lack of corpus delicti.

Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan have the lowest crime rates among Russian regions, according to the RIA Novosti rating. Thus, in Chechnya the number of crimes per 10 thousand inhabitants in 2023 was only 14.6. In Ingushetia and Dagestan – 40 and 43. Also in the top ten are Adygea, KBR and Karachay-Cherkessia.