Lawyer Alexander Nemov sent a petition to the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation to change the territorial jurisdiction in the criminal case initiated in connection with the attack on him and journalist Elena Milashina in Chechnya.

The Visaitovsky court of Grozny for the fourth time refused to satisfy the complaint of the former actor of the Grozny Russian Drama Theater Timur Debishev. He tried to appeal the investigator’s decision not to initiate a criminal case into torture.

According to ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, they want to transfer him to the Rustavi prison because there, in conditions of limited medical attention, there is a high probability of a sharp deterioration in his condition. He wrote about this on social networks, responding to the demand of ex-Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia’s party “For Georgia” to return him to prison from the clinic.

Chechnya accepted another 18 refugees from Palestine, including 12 children. They will be placed in the Gorny Klyuch camp in the Shalinsky district.

Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergei Kopyrkin stated that the country’s exit from the CSTO is not currently on the agenda. He did not answer the question about the reasons for Yerevan’s non-participation in the organization’s latest events.

Human rights, fundamental freedoms and the rule of law are important elements of the relationship between Azerbaijan and the European Union. However, Baku violates them, including by arresting journalists and activists, the EU statement said.

In the city of Urus-Martan, on Kalanchakskaya Street in front of house No. 121, a landmine was detonated. This happened at the moment when a Ural car with employees of the district commandant’s office was passing by. One of them was injured.

The authorities of Stavropol, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia and Ingushetia abandoned mass New Year's festivities. Thus, the head of Ingushetia, Mahmud-Ali Kalimatov, said that there will be no fireworks or large-scale events in the republic, except for children, due to the current socio-political situation in the country and in the world.

The Russian Embassy in Armenia stated that the suspension of broadcasting of Sputnik Armenia radio will affect the right of the Armenian listener to receive information from any source of their choice.

On December 21, 40 Palestinian refugees arrived in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, 26 of them were children. The guests were accommodated at a recreation center in the resort town of Teberda, the head of the republic, Rashid Temrezov, said in his Telegram channel.