В Тегеране напали на посольство Азербайджана. В результате погиб начальник службы безопасности дипмиссии, ещё двое охранников получили ранения. 

Премьер-министр Армении Никол Пашинян на заседании правительства заявил о грядущих планах Азербайджана. Он хочет довести экономическое и психологическое давление до кульминации, а потом на несколько дней открыть Лачинский коридор Карабаха, чтобы армяне смогли выехать.

В МИД Азербайджана считают, что предложение главы МИД Армении Мирзояна разрешить ситуацию вокруг Лачинской дороги в Карабахе силовым путем представляет серьезную угрозу. В Баку также указали, что слова о добросовестном участии Армении в переговорах не отражают действительности. 

On January 16, live on the ya_pomoshnik_kra_95 platform on Instagram (this social network is recognized as extremist in Russia and is blocked), the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, answering questions from the head of the regional Ministry of Nationalities Akhmed Dudayev, spoke about the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine and called on the male population of the Caucasus and Russia to prepare for continuation of mobilization.

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 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 18, an office of the regional branch of the Russian LDPR party was opened in Grozny. The ceremony was attended by party member Viktor Bout, who was released from an American prison and handed over to Russia as part of a prisoner exchange ten days earlier.

On December 13, at a plenary meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, the first vice-speaker of the Ukrainian parliament, Alexander Kornienko, announced the creation of the inter-factional deputy association “Free Ichkeria”. Its members included 12 deputies from the political parties “Servant of the People”, “European Solidarity” and “Voice”.