Rostov Region

December 05, 2025 02:41

• The former deputy head of the Defense Ministry's construction department has been arrested in Rostov-on-Don.

  The Southern District Military Court has arrested Dmitry Taksidi, former deputy head of the Defense Ministry's military construction complex construction department, accused of lobbying for the company's interests during the construction of a facility in the Krasnodar Territory.

December 05, 2025 01:02

• A judge of one of the Rostov courts is suspected of buying his position.

  Investigators suspect Elmira Ponomareva of bribing the former chairperson of the Sovetsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don, Elena Kobleva, to secure her appointment as a justice of the peace.

December 04, 2025 07:03

• Drone attacks were recorded in two regions of the Southern Federal District.

  Authorities in the Rostov and Stavropol regions reported drone strikes. Officially, there were no casualties.

December 04, 2025 06:12

• Five judges of a Rostov court are under investigation for bribery.

  Investigative Committee Chairman Alexander Bastrykin has requested approval from the High Qualification Collegium of Judges of the Russian Federation to prosecute five judges of the Sovetsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don, including Elena Kobleva, who was arrested in 2024.

December 04, 2025 05:21

• Eight soldiers from the Rostov region were killed in Ukraine.

  Armen Kazarov, Alexey Ignatenko, Oleg Klopov, and five other of their fellow countrymen were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have acknowledged at least 778 combatants from the Rostov region killed there.

December 04, 2025 03:27

• A former Wagner PMC fighter received a prison sentence in Azerbaijan.

  The Ganja Court for Serious Crimes sentenced Ismail Gasanov to 3.5 years in prison. He recruited from a Russian prison colony to the Wagner PMC and traveled to the Ukrainian war zone on the promise of release, money, and Russian citizenship.

December 04, 2025 02:29

• A blogger from Dagestan was sentenced in absentia to eight years in Rostov-on-Don.

  A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Dagestani blogger Arslan Mirzaev (Ali Charinsky), finding him guilty of spreading "fakes" about the Russian army and calling for terrorism.

December 03, 2025 08:31

• Flight restrictions at airports in the North Caucasus Federal District have been lifted.

  Airport restrictions imposed due to flight safety concerns have been lifted in Vladikavkaz, Grozny, and Magas. The military has not recorded any drone attacks in the North Caucasus Federal District republics, and regional authorities have announced the end of the drone threat.

December 03, 2025 07:33

• A drone attack was recorded in the Rostov region.

  The military shot down drones in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky and four districts of the Rostov region.

December 03, 2025 04:34

• A Rostov resident has been accused of violating the ban on filming drone attacks.

  A criminal case has been opened against a Rostov-on-Don resident who filmed drone attacks in the region. Three other people have been fined administratively for violating the ban.

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