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18:10, 25 February 2026

Yulia Melnichenko spent three hours in police custody after being detained at a picket.

Mozdok resident Yulia Melnichenko held a picket outside the Russian Prosecutor General's Office for the second day in a row, demanding that a security officer be punished for beating her brother and that the repression against her family cease. Security officers detained her and released her three hours later, assuring her that the Prosecutor General's Office would not pursue her case.

17:50, 25 February 2026

Two fighters from the Volgograd region were killed in Ukraine.

Vladimir Varzar and Sergei Morozov from Kamyshin were killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,695 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

17:03, 25 February 2026

Chechens in Dagestan complained about the distribution of land earmarked for resettlement.

During commemorative events marking the 82nd anniversary of the deportation of Chechens and Ingush, participants raised issues of the restoration of the Aukhovsky District, land distribution, and the government's lack of attention to these issues. Appeals to Putin made at the rally called for the need to determine the district's status, end the controversial practice of land transfers, and provide guarantees to prevent a repeat of the tragedies of the past.

Judge's gavel. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program.

16:03, 25 February 2026

The case of the security forces who took Kardashov from Dagestan to Chechnya has reached court.

Former police officers Kalogi Aziev and Alikhan Yusupov did not appear at the first hearing.

15:08, 25 February 2026

The Supreme Court of Dagestan upheld the verdict in the case of aid to Syrian militants.

Umalatova's eight-year prison sentence has been postponed until 2032, when her child turns 14.

14:11, 25 February 2026

Azerbaijan's Supreme Court upheld the sentence of former diplomat Ibrahimov.

The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan upheld the sentence of former Azerbaijani diplomat Emin Ibrahimov. His defense intends to challenge the legality of Ibrahimov's criminal prosecution in the European Court of Human Rights.

13:00, 25 February 2026

Ruben Vardanyan declined to appeal the Baku court's verdict.

The former state minister of Nagorno-Karabakh, sentenced in Baku to 20 years in prison, declined to appeal, explaining that he does not recognize the verdict as an act of justice.

Rizvangadzhi Isayev. Photo: https://chernovik.net/content/inye-smi/vozvrashchenie-dagestanskogo-evropeyca-kavpolitоsya-stroit-v

12:04, 25 February 2026

The prosecutor's office has demanded the seizure of multi-billion dollar assets belonging to a former Dagestani deputy.

The Krasnodar court has received a lawsuit from the Prosecutor General's Office demanding that land, houses, and business shares belonging to former State Duma deputy Rizvangadzhi Isaev and his relatives be forfeited to the state. The total value of the property exceeds 10 billion rubles.

11:14, 25 February 2026

A Beslan officer was killed in a military operation.

Junior Lieutenant Valery Bagayev was killed in a military operation a week after being deployed to the combat zone. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 548 soldiers from North Ossetia have been officially recognized as killed.

Installation of a trash container. Still from a video by the Kaspiysk administration: https://t.me/admkasp

10:20, 25 February 2026

The decision to install underground garbage containers has raised questions for Kaspiysk authorities.

The Kaspiysk mayor's office announced the installation of underground waste collection areas in areas where additional regular containers cannot be accommodated. Telegram users expressed skepticism about the new initiative, suggesting that the problem lies not in the number of containers but in the lack of timely waste collection.

09:44, 25 February 2026

The military shot down drones over the Black Sea.

The Ministry of Defense reported that three drones were shot down overnight over the Black Sea.

Yanina and Alexey Kopaigorodsky. Video footage from Moscow's courts of general jurisdiction: https://t.me/moscowcourts/5870, https://t.me/moscowcourts/5872. Collage by the "Caucasian Knot."

09:02, 25 February 2026

The court approved the decision to hear the Kopaigorodsky case in Moscow.

The Supreme Court upheld the decision to transfer the case of former Sochi Mayor Alexei Kopaigorodsky and his wife, who are accused of corruption, to a Moscow court.

A former internally displaced person from the village of Khorovlu. February 25, 2026. Photo: Report https://report.az/ru/vnutrennyaya-politika/v-selo-horovlu-dzhebrailskogo-rajona-otpravlena-ocherednaya-gruppa-pereselencev

08:02, 25 February 2026

30 Azerbaijani families returned to the village of Khorovlu

Today, members of 30 Azerbaijani families who fled the village during the Karabakh conflict returned to the village of Khorovlu in the Jabrayil region.

07:04, 25 February 2026

A fighter from the Astrakhan region was killed in combat.

Ivan Glushchenko from the Kamyzyak district was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 711 soldiers from the Astrakhan region have been confirmed killed.

06:05, 25 February 2026

The court refused to change the preventive measure for Sergei Turkmenyan.

The Court of Appeal rejected the appeal by the CEO of SVS Shipping, which organized the Seabridge ferry voyage from Trabzon to Sochi late last year, to extend his detention.

05:05, 25 February 2026

Bomb disposal experts destroyed seven unexploded drones in the Volgograd region.

Seven UAVs, which were discovered after a massive attack on the Volgograd region, were destroyed by bomb disposal experts; their total mass in TNT equivalent was approximately 200 kg.

04:19, 25 February 2026

Lilia Fedotova's case has reached court.

The case of former Finance Minister of the Rostov Region, Lilia Fedotova, will be heard by the Kirovsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don.

03:20, 25 February 2026

The Kuban Ministry of Natural Resources assessed the damage to wildlife following the tanker accident.

The Ministry of Natural Resources of the Krasnodar Territory estimated the damage to wildlife following the tanker accident in the Kerch Strait at 34.22 billion rubles.

02:21, 25 February 2026

A fighter from Dagestan was killed in Ukraine.

Shikhamat Magomedov from Khasavyurt was killed in combat. Over the past four years, authorities have publicly named at least 1,826 Dagestani servicemen killed in Ukraine.

FSB officers. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program.

01:45, 25 February 2026

During the week of February 16-22, two people were killed in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts.

During the week of February 16–22, 2026, armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts of Russia resulted in four casualties—two killed and two wounded. These are the results of a "Caucasian Knot" tally based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

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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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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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