A court hearing was held in Simferopol, where the consideration of the claim of Crimean Tatar lawyers Lily Gemedzhi and Rustem Kyamilev continued. They are challenging the decision of the Crimean Bar Council to refuse admission. Also during the meeting, the counterclaim filed by the Crimean Chamber was considered. They demand that Gemedzhi and Kyamilev’s lawsuit be declared illegal.

Hundreds of Crimean Tatars “have been repressed, arrested, sentenced to large prison sentences,” said Refat Chubarov, president of the World Congress of Crimean Tatars and chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people. “For more than 8 years, being on their land in the occupied Crimea, they do not accept or accept the Russian occupation, they oppose the Russian occupiers,” noted the Crimean Tatar leader.

On January 24, the European Court of Human Rights issued a decision in the case of Kutaev v. Russia. He satisfied the complaint of the applicant - a Chechen politician, human rights activist, deputy prime minister in Maskhadov's government, chairman of the Assembly of Caucasian Peoples Ruslan Kutaev, who served four years on trumped-up charges of drug possession.

Analysts named the regions of Russia with the most unaffordable mortgages on the secondary housing market. The Krasnodar Territory took first place in this indicator: local residents with an average salary can only afford 20 square meters, according to a Sovcombank study. Karachay-Cherkessia, where you can buy only 34 square meters with a mortgage, is in 10th place, Dagestan with 35 square meters is in 11th place. Chechnya, where you can buy 36 square meters, is 12th, and KBR is 15th.

Russian troops continue their offensive in the Bakhmut and Avdeevsky directions. Ukrainians are moving towards the city of Kremennaya in the east of the Lugansk region. The Air Force and Mediazona, which maintain statistics of confirmed losses, reported that since the beginning of hostilities in Ukraine, more than 12 thousand 200 Russian military personnel have been killed. 800 of them are mobilized.

If the five expelled students, including from Chechnya and Dagestan, do not wear the hijab, they will be reinstated. This was announced by the acting director of Novocherkassk Medical College Igor Shikulya. According to him, earlier three girls agreed to take off their hijab and were left in the institution. Five refused and were expelled.

Holidays at resorts in foreign countries are not available to most Russians. In January 2023, bookings of trips to foreign destinations fell five times, as calculated by the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR). Even holidays in Turkey have risen in price by more than one and a half times over the past year. And at Egyptian resorts, prices have jumped by 20% just since the beginning of the year. Massive Russian tourists choose budget Abkhazia.

In the North Caucasus Federal District (NCFD), inflation accelerated to 11.6% in December after 11.5% in November. This is lower than inflation in Russia as a whole (11.9%). Prices have increased mainly due to the indexation of housing and communal services tariffs. Inflation accelerated in four republics - North Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Chechnya and Ingushetia. In Dagestan it remained almost unchanged, but in the Stavropol Territory and Karachay-Cherkessia there was a slowdown.

The health condition of Zarema Musaeva, who is under arrest in Chechnya, is deteriorating. It's hard for her to walk, she doesn't look well. This was reported by lawyer Alexander Nemov. According to him, the woman has diabetes. She often receives insulin injections. All medicines and drugs are donated by relatives. She does not have additional treatment in a pre-trial detention center. Recently it was a year since the police brought Zarema Musaeva from Nizhny Novgorod to Grozny.

A journalist from Dagestan, Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, who is in the Rostov pre-trial detention center, conducted a survey among various cellmates on the topic of humanity and hospitality of the security forces who tortured them. He himself has been under arrest for several years on charges of financing terrorism, for which there are no witnesses or confirmed examinations. “Ramazan Isbagiev was abducted by officers of the Center for External Action from Buinaksk.

Thousands of seals could have died in the Caspian Sea in Dagestan due to bird flu. Scientists from the Institute of Ecology and Sustainable Development of Dagestan State University came to such preliminary conclusions. “The institute’s specialists, together with colleagues from the Research Institute of Virology and experts from the Compass Foundation, took tissue samples from dead seals to determine the causes of death.