223 people, including 25 civilians, died during Azerbaijan's September invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh. The Investigative Committee of Armenia reported this.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation is conducting an investigation into lawyer Aza Aliyeva. Allegedly, she published a video on her Instagram account with a speech by Chechen field commander Ruslan (Khamzat) Gelayev.

A court in Zaporozhye in Ukraine sentenced Azamat Khasbulatov and Said Huseynov, members of the Makhachkala riot police unit, to 12 years each. Soon after the start of the SVO, they tortured civilians - the defendants were found guilty of violating the laws and customs of war.

Ingushetia took first place in the Russian Federation in terms of the share of drug crimes in January-November 2023. It accounted for 28.6% of the total number of crimes committed, according to statistics from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

A number of Russian telegram channels disseminated information that on New Year’s Eve, Russian military personnel killed the commander of the Georgian Legion, Mamuka Mamulashvili, in the Northern Military District zone in Ukraine. He himself called this information part of Russian propaganda.

The average salary of a civil servant of regional authorities in the North Caucasus Federal District was 53.6 thousand rubles. In 2022, officials received the most in Dagestan (75.1 thousand) and Stavropol Territory (64.7 thousand).

Russian troops, introduced into Chechnya on December 11 by decree of then-President Yeltsin, launched a large-scale offensive against the city of Grozny, accompanied by massive sky bombing and artillery shelling.

At 3 o'clock in the morning in the village of Gekhi, on Kirova Street, opposite secondary school No. 1, a powerful explosion occurred in the Ismailovs' yard. Neighbors who came running to the scene found two corpses in the yard.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, held a meeting with the heads of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Guard. He recalled that their relatives will also be held responsible for the actions of all “extremists and terrorists” operating from abroad.

From December 30, 2001 to January 3, 2002, a large-scale “cleanup” was carried out in the village of Tsotsin-Yurt. At dawn, several groups (units of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, police officers, district military commandant’s office, special forces of the FSB and GRU) in accompanied by armored vehicles, entered the village.