The Southern District Military Court upheld the verdict of the Maikop Garrison Court against Sergeant Andrei Karachentsov. He was sentenced to 2.5 years in a penal colony for refusing to go to Ukraine for the SVO.

Georgia has a peace plan, which involves, first of all, restoring contacts with the Abkhazians and Ossetians, and only then resolving territorial issues. This was announced by member of the Georgian parliament from the ruling party Beka Odisharia, commenting on the statement of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky.

Following a proposal by Russian President Putin, the State Duma decided to denounce the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of Indigenous and Minority Peoples.

The top ten outsiders in terms of the ratio of the income of the average resident to the cost of a fixed consumer set of goods and services included the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Ingushetia and Chechnya. This was reported in a study by the RIA Rating agency.

40-year-old native of Chechnya, refugee Ali Batayev, who faces torture and death in Russia, was refused international protection in Switzerland. The authorities of this country consider Chechnya a region where human rights are not violated.

Obviously, in the argumentation of the French authorities, who have increasingly refused to grant asylum to Chechens in recent years, the tragedy of October 13 will become an additional and convincing argument in favor of their deportation.

At about 2 p.m., near the village of Chiri-Yurt, the VF of the ChRI attacked a convoy of federal forces, which included police officers and the district military commandant's office. On one section of the road, four landmines planted near the roadway exploded simultaneously.

Users of Gosuslug received a mailing with an appeal to enroll in the Russian University of Special Forces in Gudermes. There, men are being trained for war with Ukraine.

The Sovetsky District Court of Makhachkala extended until December 21 the arrest of five police officers accused of the death of a local resident during torture at a police station in January 2023. In total, seven security officers were detained in this criminal case.

Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturian signed a law ratifying the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. He accepted a statement that Armenia recognizes the powers of the ICC.