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A military court in Nalchik sentenced a serviceman named Wilhelm to 21 years in prison for raping one woman and beating another while absent from his military unit without leave. The woman later died from her injuries.

In a statement about 11 displaced persons, Armenia's Minister of Labor and Social Affairs referred to Nagorno-Karabakh as Azerbaijani territory. Karabakh refugees called the official's language unacceptable to the forcibly displaced persons.

The court overturned the acquittal of Gagik Ambartsumyan, Zhora Avetisyan, and Mesrop Yesayan, who were arrested during a protest outside the Armenian Foreign Ministry in May 2024. The case has been sent back for a new trial.

Supporters of Georgia's European integration, who gathered outside the parliament building on Rustaveli Avenue for the 422nd day in a row, called the arrests of demonstrators for standing on the sidewalk an unprecedented violation of human rights.

The Sunzha administration and the Ingushetia Central Regional Center responded to complaints from Sunzha residents, who reminded the authorities of their unfulfilled promise to eliminate the landfill.

The Khazar District Court in Baku sentenced activist Kenul Akhmedova to 20 days in jail for disseminating prohibited information on social media.

Saidbeg Abdulmalikov from Khasavyurt was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have officially acknowledged at least 1,781 Dagestani servicemen killed there.

Fifty asylum seekers from Dagestan, Chechnya, and Ingushetia, held in the Ezevo immigration prison in Croatia, have gone on hunger strike to protest gross violations of their rights.

A court in Kuban has fined former police officers Andrei Kolontaevsky and Alexander Moiseenko for abuse of power and large-scale bribery. According to the court, the officers demanded ammonium nitrate as a bribe.

Repairs to apartments damaged by a recent drone attack in the Takhtamukaysky District of Adygea are planned to be completed within five weeks, according to the head of the republic, Murat Kumpilov.

Amid the ongoing discussion of his car accident in Grozny, Ramzan Kadyrov's third son, Adam, posted a story on his Instagram account featuring a monologue from the series "Game of Thrones" and music by Chechen bard Timur Mutsuraev.

Ramzan Kadyrov would like to see his third son, Adam, as his successor, but in reality, neither Adam nor the other sons of the head of Chechnya have received guarantees from the Kremlin that would allow them to claim power in the republic.

The Supreme Court of Ingushetia has changed the pretrial detention measure for former Deputy Chief of the 2nd Department of the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs Ibragim Chaniev from house arrest to pretrial detention in a case involving abuse of power and drug possession.

Activists have restored for the fourth time a memorial plaque on the Moscow building where journalist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered.

A protest demanding the release of political prisoners took place in central Tbilisi. Protesters stood at the Rustaveli metro station with a banner reading "Freedom for the regime's prisoners!"

Nazar Ramazanov from the Rutul district was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have publicly named at least 1,780 Dagestani servicemen killed there.

Ahead of the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the human rights campaign "End Repression in Azerbaijan" called on Council of Europe structures to launch a "Joint Response Procedure" against Baku, stating that Azerbaijan is failing to comply with its human rights obligations to the organization.

The health of journalist Nurlan Gahramanli, arrested in the Meydan TV case, has seriously deteriorated on the seventh day of his hunger strike. Despite the entreaties of his family, Gahramanli refused to end his protest.

The Krasnodar Regional Court refused to soften the pretrial detention of Krymsk Mayor Yanis Budagov, who was arrested on charges of abuse of power.

Ten ethnic Armenians and one Russian with Armenian citizenship, who remained in Karabakh after the exodus of the population, asked to be resettled in Armenia; they have already been transported.