Russia

May 24, 2026 06:59

• The former deputy head of the State Security Service of Georgia has been taken into custody.

  A Tbilisi court has remanded Levan Akhobadze, accused of accepting a large bribe for assistance in smuggling money from Russia, into custody.

May 24, 2026 04:56

• The sentence against the former deputy head of Gelendzhik has been upheld.

  The Cassation Court upheld the sentence of former Gelendzhik deputy mayor Pavel Blinov, who was sentenced to three years in a penal colony for abuse of power.

May 24, 2026 03:57

• Historians have assessed the memory of the Muhajirs in the Eastern Caucasus.

  The phenomenon of muhajirs in the Eastern Caucasus is less well-known than the mass deportation of the Adyghe, but for the peoples of the region, the number of those who left was significant. According to historians, the reasons for the migration of entire ethnic groups also varied slightly.

May 24, 2026 02:57

• The Supreme Court found violations in the case of Viktor Berezhnoy.

  Residents of the collapsed high-rise building on Narimanov Street in Rostov-on-Don have appealed to the Supreme Court of Russia against the cassation court's decision to overturn the acquittal of former Voroshilovsky District Head Viktor Berezhnoy. The Supreme Court has decided to review the case.

May 24, 2026 01:57

• Two people went missing after an avalanche in Chechnya.

  A search is underway in the Itum-Kalinsky district of Chechnya for two people who went missing during an avalanche.

May 24, 2026 00:58

• A Rostov court sentenced a Crimean resident to compulsory treatment for plotting a terrorist attack.

  The Southern District Military Court sent a Kerch resident who was planning a terrorist attack on the railway to a psychiatric clinic for compulsory treatment.

May 23, 2026 21:21

• The number of bans on imports of goods from Armenia to Russia has increased ahead of parliamentary elections.

  Rosselkhoznadzor announced a ban on the import of certain cognacs and wines into Russia, including 37 million bottles of Jermuk mineral water. Pashinyan dismissed such bans as common practice, while opposition members saw political overtones in Russia's actions.

May 23, 2026 05:36

• The court refused to return a plot of land to a Sochi Cossack.

  Sochi Cossack Vladimir Galka was unable to successfully pursue a court case to regain ownership of a plot of land he had farmed for 30 years, which had been confiscated by the authorities.

May 23, 2026 04:38

• Sochi officials refused to acknowledge their inaction on a complaint about the introduction of censorship in a kindergarten.

  A hearing has begun on Sochi teacher Elena Baranetskaya's administrative lawsuit against officials from the city's Department of Education and Science for refusing to hold a kindergarten principal accountable for censoring parent chats.

May 23, 2026 03:39

• A court in Rostov-on-Don found a resident of Gorlovka guilty of treason.

  The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Gorlovka resident Vladislav Gamzin to 17 years in prison, finding him guilty of treason and calls for terrorist activity.

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