The day before, at a meeting with an American military expert, former Marine and intelligence officer Scott Ritter in Grozny, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that he was ready to exchange 20 Ukrainian prisoners of war for the lifting of sanctions against his mother, daughters, children and wife.

Islam is a powerful religion, and devoutly religious fanatics are capable of any sacrifice in order to defend their idea of the structure of the world, says Russian State Duma deputy Mikhail Matveev. “We see how they are conquering more and more living space,” he said.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, voiced his proposal at a meeting in Grozny with American military expert and journalist Scott Ritter. He asked the United States to lift sanctions against his relatives and in exchange offered to release Ukrainian prisoners of war.

Ingushetia is recognized as one of the regions with the largest increase in street crime (robberies, thefts, etc.). Over the 11 months of 2023, the dynamics were +29% compared to the same period in 2022. This was reported in the report of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

There are 1,407 schools with 481 thousand students in Dagestan. Among these institutions, 143 are recognized as emergency and another 714 are in need of major repairs. In fact, over half of the schools in Dagestan are not equipped for full-fledged education due to the deterioration of buildings and infrastructure.

Russia cannot in any way prevent America from implementing all the important diplomatic measures necessary to reconcile Armenia and Azerbaijan. This was stated by US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller.

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.