The Grozny Garrison Court and the Southern Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Shirvani Kazimagomedov, mobilized from Dagestan, to five years in prison. He was found guilty of leaving a military unit without authorization in the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine.

RIA Novosti published a rating of regions based on the ability of Russians to save for a down payment to obtain a mortgage. It is 30% of the cost of a typical sixty-meter apartment for a family of two working adults with the average salary in the region and a child.

The end of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and the transfer of territories to Azerbaijan were inevitable. This was stated by Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan. According to him, the current government inherited the negotiating situation in which Yerevan found itself in 2016 (then the head of state was President Serzh Sargsyan).

On Pervomaiskaya Street, Leninsky District, Grozny, another check of the passport regime took place - a “cleansing”. According to eyewitnesses, servicemen broke down the doors of apartments and took food from some residents.

Russian military police detained Russian Dmitry Setrakov in Armenia, who left the Russian Federation after the start of mobilization to the North Military District. He is being held at a Russian military base in the city of Gyumri, according to the human rights project “Go through the Forest,” which helped the man cross the border.

Chairman of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili commented on the civil march “Our voice to the European Union”, held on December 9 in Tbilisi as a sign of support for the country’s accession to the EU. Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili took part in the action. The protesters unfurled the largest EU flag in the world.

On the night of December 9, in the village of Valerik, employees of Russian security forces kidnapped four people. All of them subsequently disappeared without a trace: Ali Abazovich Vadilov, born in 1974, Magomed Khozh-Akhmedovich Edilov, born in 1979, Akhamdi Ismailovich Isaev, born in 1981, and Rizvan Solt-Akhmedovich Suleymanov, born in 1976.

If a peace agreement with Armenia is not signed, it will be bad for the entire South Caucasus, which must be protected from any risks. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stated this in an interview with Euronews TV channel.

Six college students in France have been convicted of involvement in the 2020 murder of history teacher Samuel Paty by ethnic Chechen Abdullah Anzorov.

Participants in the last meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe stated that the Russian authorities are not fulfilling their obligations under the decisions of the ECHR. Despite its expulsion from the Council of Europe in March 2022 after the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Federation is still obliged to pay compensation in cases for which complaints were previously filed.