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Evgenia Khasis, who served time in the case of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, admitted in an interview with Ksenia Sobchak that she was an accomplice in the lawyer's murder, although she completely denied the charge in court.

On the 376th day of continuous protests, activists in Tbilisi marched outside the Georgian Ministry of Health, demanding the identification of the chemicals used to disperse demonstrators in 2024.

The road in the mountain village of Kulibukhna is in need of repair, and appeals to local officials have yielded no results, village residents complained in a letter to Bastrykin. In 2024, the villagers appealed to Putin, asking him to address the officials' inaction.

Ayshat Baimuradova, a native of Chechnya who was found dead in Yerevan, suffered a long and painful death, and her killers waited for her to die, said David Isteyev, director of the SOS* Crisis Group. Investigators have not yet officially determined the cause of her death.

A military court in Moscow sentenced Mansur Khadzhiev to 3.5 years in prison, finding him guilty of justifying the activities of Shamil Basayev, Dzhokhar Dudayev, and Aslan Maskhadov.

On the day of the drone attack on a Grozny City skyscraper, public groups affiliated with the Chechen authorities issued a warning about penalties for violating the ban on photographing and filming the aftermath of drone attacks. Tens of thousands of users have seen the warning to date.

Rosgvardia Director Viktor Zolotov awarded the head of Chechnya the medal "For Military Distinction." Ramzan Kadyrov's son, Adam, received one in the spring. 

The Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala sentenced a local woman to three years in prison for purchasing a newborn baby. The sentence was suspended until the convicted woman's child turns 14.

The Cherkessk City Court delivered a guilty verdict in a case of LGBT* propaganda, sentencing a resident of Karachay-Cherkessia to 2.5 years in prison.

The Krasnodar Regional Court rejected a private complaint filed by the Tuapse administration and upheld the 2023 court decision granting priority housing to the family of Sergei Kartashov and Tatyana Pimenova.

Imprisoned investigative journalist Hafiz Babali of the online publication Abzas Media complained about being denied hospitalization due to an infectious disease.

Discussions about the court hearing on the former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh have resulted in mutual recriminations between Armenian and Azerbaijani Facebook* users, recalling the tragic events of the long-running armed conflict.

Some analysts have accepted the veracity of the results of monitoring the Black Sea's oil pollution, which showed that the level this summer, despite the accident of two tankers, was one of the lowest in 18 years of observations. Others have questioned the scientists' conclusions.

The gesture made by a 15-year-old teenager after scoring a goal during a sledge hockey match was a "victory gesture" and significantly different from a "Nazi salute," according to an expert analysis. The experts' findings have been presented to the disqualification committee.

Participants in a petition to the Adygea authorities demanded an immediate end to the criminal prosecution of Circassian activist Larisa Tuptsokova and the pressure on those who support her. Despite the case being under investigation, Tuptsokova has been added to the Rosfinmonitoring registry of extremists and terrorists.

The distribution of land plots, of which the former head of the Novolaksky district is suspected, along with the sale of land, has become a mechanism of corruption in Dagestan, blocking the process of restoring the Aukhovsky district.

Taganrog authorities have abandoned the purchase of New Year's displays and called on businesses to decorate their facades and shop windows for the holidays. Some Telegram users praised the mayor's decision, while others criticized it.

Last night, the military shot down drones in the Rostov, Volgograd, and Astrakhan regions, as well as in Chechnya. This drone attack in Chechnya was the third in six days.

The prosecutor's office charged the chairman of a gardening association with illegally seizing land in the Sochi National Park and felling trees. Damages were estimated at 156 million rubles, and the case has been referred to court.

A Moscow court heard the appeal in the case of Chechen teenager Muslim Murdiyev without notifying his mother and primary lawyers. The family learned of the hearing only several days later, after the appeal had been rejected.