North-Caucasian Federal District

March 28, 2026 16:00

• Human rights activists have questioned the voluntary nature of contracts signed by prisoners in Chechnya.

  Data on the number of prisoners sent from Chechen colonies to the SVO zone cannot be verified, but the voluntary nature of the contracts signed with the Ministry of Defense raises doubts, human rights activists noted.

March 28, 2026 14:00

• More than 80 people have been evacuated from the flood zone in Makhachkala.

  In Makhachkala, more than 20 private homes were flooded as a result of heavy rain, and rescuers evacuated 80 adults and three children. The rising water level on one street was due to clogged drainage, the Ministry of Emergency Situations stated, following a report from the head of Dagestan on the advance clearing of storm drains.

March 28, 2026 13:02

• Residents of 283 settlements in Dagestan were left without electricity.

  Specialists are addressing the aftermath of the power outage that left more than 327,000 residents of Dagestan without electricity.

March 28, 2026 12:05

• The FSB reported on the prevention of a terrorist attack in Stavropol.

  An attack on a security officer in Stavropol was thwarted; the suspect died in an explosion during his arrest, the security service reported.

March 28, 2026 11:06

• The number of fighters from southern Russia killed in Ukraine has exceeded 8,950.

  At least 4,415 soldiers from the North Caucasus Federal District and 4,536 from the Southern Federal District have been officially recognized as killed in the military operation in Ukraine.

March 28, 2026 08:14

• The case of a contract soldier from Vladikavkaz highlighted the problem of violations of the rights of military personnel.

  A Vladikavkaz resident held a picket to demand the repeal of the sentence for leaving her son's unit, who was declared fit for service despite a spinal injury sustained at the training ground. Human rights activists called the return of soldiers who had not fully recovered a systemic practice.

March 28, 2026 06:34

• A fighter from North Ossetia was killed in a military operation.

  Vladislav Svyatunenko from the Mozdok district was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 578 fighters from North Ossetia have been officially recognized as killed.

March 28, 2026 02:38

• Minister Kovalev and his deputy were arrested in Stavropol.

  A court in Stavropol has remanded Ivan Kovalev, head of the regional Ministry of Industry and Trade, and his deputy, Nadezhda Pronskaya, to pretrial detention. The prosecutor's office demanded Kovalev's dismissal due to a loss of trust.

March 28, 2026 02:11

• An ethnic Ingush man has been charged in Belgium with financing terrorism.

  In Belgium, a prosecutor has requested a 15-year prison sentence for Ruslan Meyriev, a native of Vladikavkaz and an ethnic Ingush who was extradited from Sweden on charges of involvement in terrorism.

March 28, 2026 01:12

• Participants in Baimuradova's funeral intend to erect a monument at her grave.

  Activists who sought the burial of Chechen native Ayshat Baimuradova in Yerevan now face bureaucratic formalities involving the installation of a monument or tombstone at her grave. Baimuradova's death has changed the approach of Armenian security forces to refugees, the human rights activist noted.

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