Dagestan

February 20, 2026 07:33

• Two soldiers from Dagestan were killed in Ukraine.

  Sultan Alizhanov and Sultanbeg Shikhmuradov from the Kazbekovsky District were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, at least 1,812 Dagestani soldiers have been officially recognized as killed there.

February 20, 2026 02:41

• Ziyavudin Ashikov complained about being denied permission to go to the front.

  Former acting head of the Kaspiysk police department, Ziyavudin Ashikov, convicted of financing terrorism and attempting to assassinate a security officer, requested three times to be sent to the war zone in Ukraine and was denied three times.

February 19, 2026 20:37

• More than 20 violations were identified at a gas station in Makhachkala before the fire.

  Several weeks before the fire at a gas storage station in the village of Novy Khushet in Makhachkala, the fire department issued orders to correct 21 deficiencies, but the violations were not corrected.

February 19, 2026 19:56

• The FSB reported the arrest of members of a terrorist cell in three regions of southern Russia.

  FSB officers detained five individuals from Dagestan, the Krasnodar Territory, and the Volgograd Region who were serving time in a penal colony in the Transbaikal Territory. Law enforcement suspects them and two other inmates of creating a terrorist cell in the colony.

February 19, 2026 13:55

• The rise in meat and egg prices in Makhachkala marked the beginning of a hike for Eid al-Fitr.

  In Makhachkala, meat and egg prices rose sharply at the start of Ramadan, but residents believe the main increase is expected before Eid al-Fitr. Retailers have called the price hikes necessary.

February 19, 2026 06:14

• Social media users are outraged by rising food prices in Dagestan.

  Before the start of Ramadan, food prices in various cities of Dagestan rose sharply and unjustifiably, and authorities are not monitoring pricing, Instagram users* reported.

February 18, 2026 21:20

• Kadyrov rejected a summons to the Kremlin for reconciliation with Kerimov.

  The head of Chechnya stated that no one summoned him to the Kremlin to make peace with Suleiman Kerimov after talk of blood feud.

February 18, 2026 18:29

• A Dagestani resident has been convicted of murdering the rector of the Institute of Theology, Sadikov.

  The Supreme Court of Dagestan sentenced a local resident to 15 years in prison for the 2011 murder of the rector of the Institute of Theology and International Relations, Maksud Sadikov, and his nephew, Zalimkhan Musayev.

February 18, 2026 16:47

• Five lawyers asked that Tsipinova's acquittal be upheld.

  The prosecutor's office is demanding that the acquittal of lawyer Diana Tsipinova be overturned. Five colleagues are representing her in the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, calling for the decision to stand.

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