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.

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

The head of Kabardino-Balkaria, Kazbek Kokov, said that a special flight of the Ministry of Emergency Situations will deliver over 20 tons of humanitarian aid collected by residents of the republic to Egypt for the population of the Gaza Strip. The head of the region thanked everyone who participated in the collection of humanitarian aid and its delivery.

The criminal case against the former head of the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Stavropol Territory, Alexei Safonov, was sent to the Fifth Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction. Safonov is accused of creating a criminal community and receiving bribes on a large scale by an organized group.

The first group of Palestinian refugees, consisting of 100 people, will arrive in Ingushetia in the coming days by train.

The presenter and general director of the republican television channel of Tatarstan, Ilshat Aminov, publicly responded to the recent statement of State Duma deputy Pyotr Tolstoy.

The police detained a man in Tyumen who was carrying a poster with the inscription “Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov – thief, murderer, shame of Russia.”

In the ranking of regions according to the minimum scale of bad habits, Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia took the first places. Kabardino-Balkaria is in 5th place, North Ossetia is in 16th, Karachay-Cherkessia is in 18th, RIA Novosti reports.

According to the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, from February 2022 to November 2023, 15,506 citizens of the Russian Federation applied for a residence permit in the country.

Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili arrived in the village of Duisi in the Pankisi Gorge to present the Order of Honor to the family of the deceased representative of the Pankisi Council of Elders, Khaso Khangoshvili. Khaso Khangoshvili was also a famous writer and local historian.