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Protesters at the Georgian Chancellery. Photo screenshot by Publika.
16:58, 19 April 2026
Animal rights activists demand humane treatment for stray animals in Georgia.
Participants in a protest outside the Georgian government building called on authorities to implement humane sterilization programs for stray animals.
16:00, 19 April 2026
Two parties have announced their lists for the parliamentary elections in Armenia.
The Armenian National Congress Party has nominated former parliament member Levon Zurabyan as its prime ministerial candidate. Bright Armenia does not have a prime ministerial candidate, and the party has suggested that the opposition consolidate around Mikael Ajapayan, Primate of the Shirak Diocese.
14:58, 19 April 2026
A combatant from Kotovo was killed in combat.
Igor Petrov was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,760 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.
Buildings of the Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex named after G. M. Beriev. Photo: Alexandr Meshkov. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ad15/24256861025/sizes/o/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=58186801
13:59, 19 April 2026
An airstrike near an aircraft factory in Taganrog sparked debate on social media.
The grounds of an aircraft factory and park in Taganrog have been cordoned off following an airstrike that injured three people today. Telegram users have urged authorities to evacuate the plant outside the city limits for the safety of residents.
A road in the mountains of Dagestan. Photo: Dagestanavtodor https://dagavtodor.ru/news
13:00, 19 April 2026
Roads to 14 villages in Dagestan remain blocked.
Workers have cleared snow from the road to the village of Artlukh in the Kazbekovsky district, but residents of 14 more villages in the Dakhadaevsky, Tlyaratinsky, and Tsumadinsky districts remain without transport links.
11:58, 19 April 2026
Three soldiers from the Astrakhan region have been identified as killed in a military operation.
Alexander Ogurtsov, Sergey Salnikov, and Bulat Tunekeshev from the Volodarsky District were killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 734 soldiers from the Astrakhan Region have been confirmed killed.
The aftermath of the flood in Dagestan. Still from the Ministry of Emergency Situations video: https://t.me/mchsdagestan/16964
11:00, 19 April 2026
The number of flooded houses in Dagestan has dropped to 54.
The number of flooded homes in Dagestan has more than halved in the past 24 hours. 544 people are in temporary accommodation centers.
Lyudmila Shchekoldina's family greets her after leaving the prison colony. A still from a video from a website covering the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia (396 Russian Jehovah's Witness organizations have been designated as extremist, and their activities in Russia are banned by court order).
10:01, 19 April 2026
A Jehovah's Witness* from Kuban has been released from prison.
Lyudmila Shchelkoldina, a resident of the village of Pavlovskaya, was released from prison after spending almost four years in prison on charges of extremism.
09:03, 19 April 2026
Mintsayeva's arrest highlighted the problem of security forces interfering in family disputes.
Before her arrest, Belkisa Mintsayeva traveled to Chechnya under pressure from security forces, who threatened to send her brother to the SVO. Even if the court orders the return of both daughters, who were taken away by her ex-husband, to Mintsayeva, the enforcement of this decision could take years, human rights activists noted.
Taganrog. Photo: Dimon2007 https://ru.wikipedia.org/
07:59, 19 April 2026
Three people were injured in an airstrike in Taganrog.
Three wounded people required medical attention following a nighttime air strike in Taganrog. Several buildings in the city sustained minor damage, officials said.
Samira Gasimli. Photo from Samira Gasimli's personal archive, published by Meydan TV https://www.meydan.tv/
07:00, 19 April 2026
The wife of an Azerbaijani government critic faces libel charges.
The wife of Azer Gasimli, a political scientist convicted in Azerbaijan, has been charged with defamation. The woman's criminal prosecution was initiated following a complaint filed by someone recognized as a victim in her husband's case.
06:01, 19 April 2026
Six fighters from Stavropol were killed in Ukraine.
Authorities in the Aleksandrovsky District presented awards to the families of soldiers killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 935 soldiers from the Stavropol Krai have been officially recognized as killed.
04:57, 19 April 2026
The court refused to transfer the case of the former Volgograd deputy's illegal income recovery to Moscow.
A Volgograd court has refused to transfer a case seeking the recovery of nearly 44 million rubles in illegal income from former regional Duma deputy Stanislav Korotkov to Moscow.
03:57, 19 April 2026
A soldier was convicted in Kabardino-Balkaria for abandoning his unit.
The Nalchik Garrison Military Court sentenced serviceman Rustam Aflatov to five years in prison, finding him guilty of evading military service during mobilization.
02:58, 19 April 2026
The Makhachkala bypass is closed due to road damage.
Traffic on the bypass road around Makhachkala through the village of Talgi is closed due to road damage.
01:59, 19 April 2026
Three houses were damaged in Yeysk during a drone attack.
Drone debris knocked out windows in three houses in Yeysk.
01:00, 19 April 2026
One person was injured in a shootout in Ingushetia.
A shootout occurred in the village of Gazi-Yurt in the Nazran district, during which a local resident named Ugurchieva was wounded and hospitalized. According to preliminary reports, athletes were involved in the shootout.
00:00, 19 April 2026
The seaport in Yeysk was attacked by drones.
Drone debris fell in the port of Yeysk; according to authorities, there were no damages. At the port of Tuapse, which had previously been attacked by drones, an open fire was extinguished, and at the Tikhoretsk oil depot, the fire was completely extinguished.
Ilya Sigida. Photo from Eschatology.org.
23:00, 18 April 2026
The easing of Ilya Sigida's pretrial detention came as a surprise to his family.
The investigator himself petitioned to lift the house arrest and place Hieromonk Ilya (Sigida), accused of rehabilitating Nazism, under a restraining order. A court in Slavyansk-on-Kuban upheld his position. Sigida's mother believes the mitigation of the restraining order is due to her son's deteriorating health.
22:00, 18 April 2026
Historians and activists have called on Armenian authorities to resist the destruction of cultural heritage in Karabakh.
Armenian authorities must oppose the destruction of Armenian cultural and historical heritage in Karabakh and draw the attention of international organizations to its fate, activists and historians said on International Heritage Day.
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Samira Gasimli. Photo from Samira Gasimli's personal archive, published by Meydan TV https://www.meydan.tv/ The wife of an Azerbaijani government critic faces libel charges.

Historians and activists have called on Armenian authorities to resist the destruction of cultural heritage in Karabakh.

Russian analysts assessed the potential of the Trans-Caspian Corridor amid the war in Iran.

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.