December 17 - An Ingush resident was detained in Georgiyevsk in Stavropolsky Krai on suspicion of masterminding the bomb attack on a bus in the South Russian town of Nevinnomyssk on December 9, which killed two people.
December 17 - Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was ready to become Premier if the current first vice-premier Dmitry Medvedev is elected President in the March 2 elections.
December 18 - Two prison officers were killed and four other injured when their vehicle that was accompanying another vehicle with prisoners was hit by a roadside bomb in Grozny's Leninsky district.
December 18 - Servicemen of Chechen battalions "West" and "East" are deployed in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, top Chechen official Said-Magomed Kakiyev told Russian media.
December 18 - Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, Ingushetia's President Murat Zyazikov denied allegations that Russia's war on terror has moved from Chechnya to Ingushetia. Also, he accused "certain forces in the West" of attempting to destabilize the situation in his republic.
December 19 - Two guerrillas and a police officer died in a clash in the village of Vremenny in Dagestan's Untsukulsky district.
December 19 - Russia's President Vladimir Putin became TIME's Person of the Year 2007, beating Al Gore, J.K. Rowling, and other big names for the title.
December 19-20 - Representatives of the NGO Voice of Beslan held a hunger strike at North Ossetia's Supreme Court to protest the court's effective ban on the organization's operations.
December 21 - The Parliament of the Chechen republic of Ichkeria approved Said Askhabov as Ichkeria's envoy to Muslim countries, Salambek Dakhayev as envoy to France and Salambek Amayev as envoy to Denmark.
December 21 - The numbers of people, especially ethnic Chechens and Ingush from the Russian Federation, seeking asylum in Poland rose sharply in the period between July and Poland's recent entry to the Schengen border-free zone, said UNHCR spokesperson William Spindler.
December 21 - The Parliament of the Chechen Republic urged Russia's federal parliament and government to devote more attention to the legislative initiatives of regional parliaments.
December 22 - The Moscow-backed Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov gave Ismail Baykhanov, head of the Chechen Election Commission, the republic's highest award, the Akhmat Kadyrov Award, for his "contribution to the development of democracy in Chechnya".
December 22 - The website of the Prague-based agency Caucasus Times (www.caucasustimes.com), which reports on the developments in the North Caucasus, was shut down by unknown hackers. It expects to resume operations in several days.
December 23-25 - Residents of the temporary accommodation center (TAC) on 11 Ponyatkova Street in Grozny's Oktyabrsky district were being evicted from the TAC, the Chechen National Salvation Committee reported.
December 24 - Polish and German police returned to Poland a total of 59 Chechen nationals travelling by train to Germany, saying the Chechens didn't have the right to cross the border.
December 25 - The regional branch of Russia's Federal Migration Service started issuing biometric passports to residents of the Chechen Republic.
December 26- A new building of Chechnya's narcological dispensary was opened in Grozny.
