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17:12, 2 October 2025

Saraliev reported on another prisoner exchange with Ukraine.

185 Russian soldiers and 20 civilians have been returned to Russia as part of a prisoner exchange with Ukraine, according to State Duma deputy from Chechnya Shamsail Saraliev.

16:12, 2 October 2025

A Krasnodar resident spoke out against the development of a green zone in Yubileiny.

A solo picket against the development of a green zone in the Yubileiny microdistrict took place today outside the Krasnodar Krai administration.

15:30, 2 October 2025

Three people were wounded in a shootout near a rural school in Dagestan.

A shootout involving six people occurred near a school in the village of Untsukul; three people were hospitalized with injuries.

13:35, 2 October 2025

A soldier from the Astrakhan region was killed in the SVO zone.

Alik Zolotov was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 618 soldiers from the Astrakhan region have been officially recognized as killed.

Murder suspect. Photo from October 2, 2025. https://t.me/tutdagestan_05/17525

12:34, 2 October 2025

Sources reported that a coach in Derbent killed his lover's son.

A freestyle wrestling coach in Derbent and his son beat a young man who objected to the coach's relationship with his mother and buried the body. The suspects have been detained, sources reported.

11:59, 2 October 2025

The uncle of an opposition Azerbaijani blogger has been sentenced to a prison term.

In Azerbaijan, a court sentenced Elmir Sadygov, the uncle of opposition blogger Tural Sadygly, to 2.5 years in prison for illegal arms trafficking. His relatives claimed the trial was unfair and the sentence was unfounded.

11:03, 2 October 2025

Astrakhan regional authorities responded to Babushkin's fake appeal to Kadyrov.

Governor Igor Babushkin's video message to Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov calling for an end to the use of Astrakhan region residents in military operations has been labeled a fake created using neural networks.

09:41, 2 October 2025

A combatant from the Rostov region was killed during military operations.

Nikolai Sokolov was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have officially named at least 720 combatants from the Rostov region killed there.

08:42, 2 October 2025

A Tbilisi court has arrested activist Gela Hasai.

The Tbilisi City Court has chosen a preventive measure in the form of pre-trial detention for Gela Hasai, a member of the Girchi – More Freedom party from the Coalition for Change.

Drone attack. Illustration of the "Caucasian Knot" created using AI in the Copilot program.

07:44, 2 October 2025

Eleven drones were shot down in the skies over the Rostov and Volgograd regions.

Authorities reported no casualties during the attack on the night of October 2.

06:12, 2 October 2025

Four Makhachkala residents confessed under torture to worshiping Hitler and being involved with the Azov Regiment*.

Magomed Dzhavatkhanov, Ruslan Akkayev, and two other residents of Dagestan are in a Rostov pretrial detention center on terrorism charges. The prosecution claims they planned to set fire to a military base in Makhachkala on behalf of the Ukrainian Azov Regiment*; the young men call the case fabricated.

05:12, 2 October 2025

Rosaviatsiya has closed Astrakhan Airport to aircraft.

Restrictions on aircraft landings and departures have been imposed at Astrakhan Airport due to the threat of drone attacks. Similar restrictions remain in place in Volgograd, where residents have reported hearing explosions.

04:17, 2 October 2025

Eight soldiers from the Rostov region were killed in Ukraine.

Murad Gashimov, Artur Martirosov, Ferdinand Bekker, and five other soldiers from the Salsky district were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have publicly named at least 719 combatants from the Rostov region killed there.

03:18, 2 October 2025

The son of the owner of the Marton hotel chain has been arrested in Krasnodar.

The Krasnodar Regional Court refused to release Ivan Marchenko, the son of Marton Hotel chain owner Andrei Marchenko, from pretrial detention. He is also a co-defendant in the Prosecutor General's Office's lawsuit against former head of the Council of Judges Viktor Momotov.

02:19, 2 October 2025

Soltayev and Delimkhanov's intercession secured a suspended sentence for a Chechen teenager in Tver.

Chechen Human Rights Commissioner Mansur Soltayev called the suspended sentence for a Chechen schoolboy accused of attacking other teenagers a "major victory." He expressed confidence that he would achieve a similar result for Roman Murdiev, who received a prison sentence in Moscow.

01:21, 2 October 2025

Volgograd Airport operations are restricted due to the drone threat.

Rosaviatsiya imposed restrictions on flight operations at Volgograd Airport for the third night in a row, and two flights from Moscow were cancelled.

Sifting sand. Screenshot from the Telegram channel "Networks, Sieve, Shovel" from September 30, 2025, https://t.me/setisitolopata/1570

00:12, 2 October 2025

Volunteers and environmentalists disagree with the authorities' assessment of the results of the fuel oil cleanup in Kuban.

The cleanup of the Anapa and Taman coastlines is not yet complete. Fuel oil remains on the shore, hidden by a layer of sand, and uncollected emissions could reenter the water and eventually end up on another stretch of coastline, volunteers believe. The risk of further emissions remains at least until cofferdams are installed, the ecologist noted.

Fighters from the Erzi Battalion. Still from a video from Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov's Telegram channel, September 30, 2025, https://t.me/MAKalimatovvv/9821.

23:14, 1 October 2025

Recruiting fighters from other regions to the Erzi Battalion was a necessary measure.

The presence of fighters from other regions in the Erzi International Battalion created in Ingushetia, as well as in the groups departing from Grozny, is intended to demonstrate the mass nature of the decision to go to the front, analysts believe.

22:01, 1 October 2025

Participants of the "March of Angry Women" joined protests outside the Georgian parliament.

Participants in the women's march in Tbilisi demanded the release of all women detained and convicted in connection with the protests. Along with other protesters, they blocked traffic outside the parliament building. During the protest, news broke of the arrest of "Girchi – More Freedom" activist Gela Khasai.

21:01, 1 October 2025

Residents of a five-story building in Rostov are being resettled due to a crack.

A through-and-through crack has appeared in a five-story building on Ivanovskogo Street. Rostov-on-Don authorities announced that residents of one of the buildings have been relocated to temporary housing.

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The peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as other documents signed at the meeting with Trump on August 8, 2025

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Zelimkhan Khangoshvili

A participant of the second Chechen military campaign, one of the field commanders close to Shamil Basaev and Aslan Maskhadov. Shot dead in Berlin in 2019.

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