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15:15, 21 February 2026
Five actors left a theater in Tbilisi in protest against the removal of a banner.
Five leading actors from Tbilisi's Vaso Abashidze Music and Drama Theatre resigned from the company after a banner supporting their colleague Andro Chichinadze, who was sentenced to two years in prison for participating in protests, was removed from the building's facade.
Eduard Sharlot. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program.
14:55, 21 February 2026
The court rejected the appeal against Charlotte's sentence.
The cassation court rejected the appeal against the sentence of singer Eduard Sharlot, who apologized to the head of Chechnya.
Those arrested in the Meydan TV case. Photo and collage: Meydan TV https://www.meydan.tv/ru/article/mezhdunarodnye-npo-osudili-zaderzhaniya-sotrudnikov-mejdan-tv/
13:56, 21 February 2026
Defendants in the Meydan TV case accused judges of bias.
Journalists arrested in Baku in the Meydan TV case accused the judges of bias, ignoring complaints of human rights violations against the defendants. Their lawyers challenged the court's composition, but their request was not considered.
12:56, 21 February 2026
A contract soldier from the Volgograd region was killed in Ukraine.
Viktor Zhuravlev from the Nekhaevsky District was killed in a military operation in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,689 soldiers from the Volgograd Region have been officially recognized as killed.
A drone over the city. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program.
11:57, 21 February 2026
Volgograd residents' apartments damaged by drone attacks
The Ministry of Defense reported 10 drones shot down this morning in four regions of the Southern Federal District. In Volgograd, the attacks damaged the windows of apartment buildings.
A transformer in the village of Tsovkra-1. A still from a video from the Chernovik Telegram channel: https://t.me/chernovik/93764
10:57, 21 February 2026
Dagenergo blamed the repairs for the problems with electricity supply to villagers.
Residents of the Dagestani village of Tsovkra-1 complained of cold in their homes, noting that their electricity was supplied through an "old and weak" transformer. A second transformer was undergoing repairs and would soon be connected, according to Dagenergo.
09:58, 21 February 2026
34 drones were shot down in three regions of the Southern Federal District.
Last night, the military shot down 24 drones in the Krasnodar region, nine in the Rostov region, and one in the Volgograd region.
Participants in the bishops' meeting. Photo: News.am https://news.am/rus/news/931454.html
08:59, 21 February 2026
Bishops called on Armenian authorities to stop persecution of clergy
Participants in the bishops' meeting, in an appeal to the Armenian authorities, demanded an end to the persecution of Catholicos Garegin II and other clergy.
07:57, 21 February 2026
An airstrike was reported in the Rostov region.
Drones and missiles were destroyed in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky and five districts of the Rostov region. According to preliminary authorities, there are no injuries.
A Russian soldier. Still from a Defense Ministry video: https://t.me/mod_russia/59569.
06:58, 21 February 2026
The number of fighters from southern Russia killed in Ukraine has exceeded 8,700.
At least 4,271 soldiers from the North Caucasus Federal District and 4,431 from the Southern Federal District have been officially recognized as killed in the military operation in Ukraine.
05:58, 21 February 2026
Andrei Marchenko remains in custody
The defense of Kuban businessman Andrei Marchenko, a former business partner of Judge Viktor Momotov, was unable to appeal his arrest.
04:59, 21 February 2026
A Dagestani soldier was killed in the SVO zone.
Rashid Magomedkhanov from the Tabasaran district was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, at least 1,814 Dagestani soldiers have been officially recognized as killed there.
04:00, 21 February 2026
A Sochi resident was convicted of participating in a terrorist organization.
The court sentenced Sochi resident Frederic Du Bois to 11 years in prison, finding him guilty of participating in a terrorist organization.
03:01, 21 February 2026
A former Astrakhan official has been detained after 13 years of searching.
Marianna Stupina, former First Deputy Minister of Housing and Public Utilities of the Astrakhan Region, was convicted in 2012 after faking her own death and going into hiding for over 13 years. After her arrest, she was sent to a penal colony to serve her sentence.
02:02, 21 February 2026
A resident of North Ossetia is suspected of calling for terrorism.
A criminal case has been opened against a resident of North Ossetia who, on a social media site, called for violence against a public figure.
01:03, 21 February 2026
Four fighters from Kabardino-Balkaria were killed in Ukraine.
Vladimir Zemskov, Vadim Zelenin, Igor Vysotsky, and Boris Beniaminov from Nalchik were killed in military operations in Ukraine. Since February 2022, at least 378 combatants from Kabardino-Balkaria have been confirmed killed there.
00:58, 21 February 2026
Videos justifying terrorism led to a criminal case against a teenager from Dagestan.
A minor resident of Dagestan will stand trial on charges of three counts of public justification of terrorism.
00:46, 21 February 2026
Another memorial plaque on Anna Politkovskaya's house has been destroyed again.
The 19th memorial plaque installed by activists on the home of Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow was once again torn down by unknown individuals.
Protesters on Rustaveli Avenue. Photo: Mariam Dzidzaria / Netgazeti
23:47, 20 February 2026
The protest on Rustaveli continued amid new arrests of activists.
On the 450th day of continuous pro-European protests outside the Georgian parliament, a Tbilisi court sentenced three activists who participated in the rallies on Rustaveli Avenue to administrative arrest.
23:09, 20 February 2026
The name of the North Ossetian soldier killed in Ukraine has been released.
Feder Pletnev from the Mozdok district was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have officially acknowledged at least 546 North Ossetian servicemen killed there.
News
Bulletproof vest. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program. Losses in southern Russia in Ukraine exceed 8,800 people.

Russian troops in a combat zone. Still from a Russian Defense Ministry video: https://mil.ru/news/1b9c3525-a768-4ce0-81c3-4b4a885d8335 The number of fighters from southern Russia killed in the SVO has exceeded 8,750.

A Russian soldier. Still from a Defense Ministry video: https://t.me/mod_russia/59569. The number of fighters from southern Russia killed in Ukraine has exceeded 8,700.

LEGAL TEXTS
The illustration was created by the Caucasian Knot using AI The peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as other documents signed at the meeting with Trump on August 8, 2025

The “Caucasian Knot" publishes the agreement on the establishment of peace and interstate relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which was initialed by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on August 8, 2025, through the mediation of US President Donald Trump. The meeting of Trump, Aliyev and Pashinyan took place on August 8 in Washington. Following the meeting, Pashinyan and Aliyev also signed a joint declaration. In addition to the agreements between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Trump signed a number of separate memoranda with Aliyev and Pashinyan....

Personalities
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili. Photo courtesy of press service of HRC 'Memorial', http://memohrc.org/ 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.

Magomed Daudov. Photo: screenshot of the video http://video.agaclip.com/w=atDtPvLYH9o Magomed Daudov

Magomed "Lord" Daudov is a former Chechen militant who was awarded the title of "Hero of Russia", the chairman of the Chechen parliament under Ramzan Kadyrov.

Tumso Abdurakhmanov. Screenshot from video posted by Abu-Saddam Shishani [LIVE] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIR3s7AB0Uw Tumso Abdurakhmanov

Tumso Abdurakhmanov is a blogger from Chechnya. After a conflict with Ramzan Kadyrov's relative, he left the republic and went first to Georgia, and then to Poland, where he is trying to get political asylum.