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Sergei Pleshakov was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,603 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

The Kabardino-Balkarian Ministry of Education refused to provide data on the number of schoolchildren of Kabardian and Balkar ethnicities who chose Russian as their native language. Students and their parents could have faced pressure to abandon the study of their national languages, human rights activists stated in a letter to the head of the republic.

The Ministry of Defense reported that four drones were shot down overnight in the Volgograd and Rostov regions.

Kakha Melikidze, director of the pro-government Georgian Public Broadcaster, has been fired after making public statements criticizing the channel's editorial policy.

Last night, the military shot down drones in the Kasharsky, Bokovsky, Chertkovsky, and Sholokhov districts of the Rostov region.

Murad Badirkhanov was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,751 soldiers from Dagestan have been officially recognized as killed.

The Nalchik Garrison Military Court sentenced Ratmir Zakuev, who had been absent from his duty station for about a month, to five years in a maximum security penal colony.

Ten families of former internally displaced persons have returned to the village of Vengli in the Agdere district and have been given keys to new apartments.

Former Rostov-on-Don mayor Alexei Logvinenko invoked Article 51 of the Russian Constitution and refused to testify against himself during interrogations.

Former Georgian Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaia, arrested on charges of organizing violence at a protest, said he testified under pressure from security forces who threatened to arrest his wife.

On the evening of December 27, air defense forces shot down 15 drones over the Rostov region and six drones over the Volgograd region.

An appeal against the verdict was filed by a nurse at a private sanatorium in Nalchik, who was sentenced to four years in prison for infecting more than 70 people with hepatitis C and HIV.

Mould Khabaev, convicted of the 1995 attack on Budyonnovsk and serving his sentence, was sentenced to six years in prison for attacking a prison employee.

A court in Maykop found former Elbrus village head Uzeir Kurdanov and local resident Larisa Kadyrova guilty of fraud involving a plot of land in the Elbrus National Park and sentenced them to prison terms.

A Tbilisi court has extended the pretrial detention of opposition politician Elene Khoshtaria, who is accused of defacing Kakha Kaladze's election poster.

Daniyar Kamendagaliev was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 664 soldiers from the Astrakhan region have been confirmed killed.

On December 26, the Telegram channel "Sudzhuk Lagoon #battleforproran" published photos taken on the coast of Novorossiysk. The footage shows dead cormorants. According to the source, the bodies of approximately 300 birds were found in the area between the Gesha Kozodoev monument and the Ministry of Emergency Situations base.

The Tbilisi City Court postponed hearings on cases involving "sidewalk blockades" outside the Georgian Parliament. On the 394th day of daily protests, as on other days, supporters of European integration gathered on Rustaveli Avenue, demanding freedom of peaceful assembly.

During a hearing at the Baku Military Court, former Nagorno-Karabakh Parliament Speaker David Ishkhanyan delivered his closing statement, denying the charges. The verdict will be announced at the next hearing.

The Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala ruled unlawful police inaction regarding the complaints of journalists Magomed Magomedov and Idris Yusupov*, who were detained back in January 2023 during pickets in support of Abdulmumin Gadzhiev. For nearly two years, security forces ignored the journalists' allegations of unlawful detention and failed to respond to their lawyers' requests.