Russia

February 10, 2026 10:01

• Abkhaz activists demand the resignation of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

  Abkhazian public organizations have called on the president to dismiss Interior Minister Robert Kiuta, questioning the legality of the procedure for issuing Russian passports in Abkhazia.

February 10, 2026 07:23

• Restrictions on travel on the Transkam highway have been tightened.

  Traffic on the Transcaucasian Highway between Russia and South Ossetia is prohibited for all vehicles.

February 10, 2026 05:25

• A former magistrate from Nalchik has been accused of bribery.

  In Kabardino-Balkaria, a criminal case has been opened against former magistrate Mukhamed Tembotov, who is accused of accepting bribes and acting as an intermediary in bribery.

February 10, 2026 01:56

• A sign pointing to neo-Nazi vandals has disappeared from Politkovskaya's home.

  A temporary memorial plaque has been torn down for the ninth time from the Moscow building where journalist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered. The inscription, painted on the wall where the granite memorial plaque once hung, has not yet been destroyed.

February 10, 2026 01:03

• A Krasnodar resident was sentenced for justifying terrorism.

  A military court in Rostov-on-Don found a 19-year-old Krasnodar resident guilty of justifying terrorism online. He was sentenced to a prison term.

February 09, 2026 23:27

• Kadyrov spoke for the first time about the accident involving his son Adam.

  Ramzan Kadyrov mentioned for the first time the road accident involving his third son, Adam, calling all media reports about the incident "fakes."

February 09, 2026 19:57

• Human rights activists have recognized Kalmyk activist Baltykov as a political prisoner

  The criminal prosecution of Eduard Baltykov from Kalmykia is part of a security forces campaign against indigenous activists, according to the human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial"*.

February 09, 2026 15:53

• A representative of the Russian Orthodox Church called Alaudinov's ideas heretical

  Priest Sergiy Fufayev stated that the ideas in the book by the head of the Akhmat special forces, Apti Alaudinov, lead to heresy.

February 08, 2026 05:23

• The sentences of three former Volgograd City Duma deputies have been upheld.

  The appellate court found no grounds to change the sentences of former Volgograd City Duma deputies Yevgeny Shchur, Fyodor Litvinenko, and Alexey Zverev.

February 08, 2026 04:23

• Two natives of Dagestan are accused of financing terrorism.

  The Southern District Military Court has received a case against two Dagestan natives accused of organizing a fundraiser to purchase thermal imaging drones for the Ukrainian Azov Battalion*.

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