On January 4, rallies were held in Georgia and other countries around the world in support of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. The protesters demanded that the Georgian authorities allow the prisoner Saakashvili to continue treatment in a foreign clinic. He is now in the Vivamedi clinic in Tbilisi due to complications after a long hunger strike.

On January 3, in front of the Croatian Embassy in Vienna, a rally of representatives of the Chechen diaspora took place, protesting against the extradition of refugees who are fleeing to Europe from mobilization in Russia and encountering opposition on the borders of the Balkan countries.

On January 2, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny, announced that by the end of 2022, the Ukrainian army had managed to liberate 40% of the territories occupied by Russia since the beginning of the invasion.

On January 1 and New Year's Eve, Russian troops launched attacks on Ukraine. There are victims in Orekhovo and Khmelnitsky. In Kyiv, the campus of the Kyiv National University was damaged.

Another exchange of prisoners of war took place. Ukraine reported the return of 140 people, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported the return of 82 people.
On New Year's Eve, Ukrainian air defense shot down 45 Iranian-made Russian drones and 12 missiles.

In the Kyiv region, air defense forces repelled another drone raid.

On December 29, a group of two dozen refugees from Chechnya and Ingushetia were expelled from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Turkey. As Kavkaz.Realii reported, they arrived in Sarajevo on December 28 and planned to seek political asylum in Croatia. Among them were men who fled Russian mobilization and members of their families.

On December 12, several hundred Azerbaijani citizens calling themselves environmental activists blocked traffic along the Lachin corridor, a highway connecting the Armenian city of Goris and the capital of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Stepanakert. A humanitarian catastrophe is brewing in Artsakh (the Armenian name for Karabakh).

On December 27, the Moscow City Court read out the verdict of former member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation from Karachay-Cherkessia Rauf Arashukov and his father, ex-adviser of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Raul Arashukov. Both were sentenced to life imprisonment for organizing two murders, creating a criminal community and stealing gas.

On December 27, human rights activists from the North Caucasus branch of the Team Against Torture (CAT) spoke about the reaction their report “The Arithmetic of Torture,” which analyzed cases of violence by security forces, caused among the regional authorities. The parliament of Chechnya distinguished itself most of all - an anonymous answer with insults came from there.