North Caucasus

March 05, 2026 11:55

• Zarema Musaeva was again found guilty of assaulting a prison officer.

  Following a retrial of a criminal case for disrupting the activities of a correctional facility, the Shali City Court of Chechnya sentenced Zarema Musayeva to three years and 10 months in a penal colony.

March 05, 2026 08:58

• A large-scale drone strike has been recorded in southern Russia.

  Sixteen drones were shot down over four regions of the Southern Federal District. A drone alert was also declared in the North Caucasus.

March 05, 2026 06:01

• Losses in southern Russia in Ukraine exceed 8,800 people.

  At least 4,326 servicemen from the North Caucasus Federal District and 4,478 from the Southern Federal District have been killed in fighting in Ukraine, according to official reports from administrations and security agencies.

March 05, 2026 04:03

• A court has ordered the demolition of an eight-story residential building in Makhachkala.

  An eight-story residential building on Azizov Street in Makhachkala has been declared illegal and is scheduled for demolition. Some Telegram users sympathized with the building's residents, while others blamed the buyers of the illegally built apartments for the city's infrastructure problems.

March 05, 2026 03:04

• A Stavropol resident was sentenced to prison for inciting terrorism.

  A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Stavropol resident Artur Shamanov to three years in prison, finding his comments on a messenger to be justification and propaganda for terrorism.

March 05, 2026 02:05

• Seven soldiers from Karachay-Cherkessia were killed in Ukraine.

  Voldemar Petrov, Stanislav Durakov, Rasul Saryev, and four other fellow countrymen were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have named at least 190 soldiers from Karachay-Cherkessia killed there.

March 04, 2026 23:59

• Complaints about insufficient tax collection in Dagestan have been misdirected

  A member of the Dagestani parliament, who, according to Telegram channels, was criticized by the head of the republic for poor tax collection, bears no responsibility for the large-scale corruption in the republic. Small businesses, who will be subject to further audits, will also fail to generate sufficient revenue.

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