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01:39, 26 February 2026

The Volgograd Regional Court sided with Nagavkin in three disputes with the Federal Penitentiary Service.

The Volgograd Regional Court upheld three lawsuits filed by Igor Nagavkin against the federal and regional departments of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) regarding the conditions of his detention in the Leninsky Pre-Trial Detention Center and Uryupinsk Correctional Institution No. 23.

00:40, 26 February 2026

A court in Adygea denied environmentalists' request to protect the forest.

The Supreme Court of Adygea rejected the Social and Ecological Union's lawsuit against the republic's Committee for Architecture and Urban Development. The lawsuit concerned the preservation of protective forests, where 9,950 trees are planned to be cut down for the construction of the Lagonaki ski resort. The environmental activists intend to appeal the decision.

23:45, 25 February 2026

A fundraising drive for a boy from Dagestan's treatment was prompted by a refusal to provide assistance under a state program.

73 million rubles have been raised for the treatment of a boy with Duchenne muscular dystrophy; 230 million rubles are needed for the Elevidis injection. The fundraiser's organizers explained that he had not yet received assistance under the state program and expressed hope that the fundraising would be completed before the end of Ramadan.

23:12, 25 February 2026

The FSB reported on the prevention of a terrorist attack at a military airfield in Kuban.

According to security forces, the man was planning to set fire to an airplane on orders from Ukrainian intelligence services at a military airfield in the Krasnodar region; he has been arrested.

March in Tbilisi. Photo: TV Pirveli, February 25, 2026, https://tvpirveli.ge/ka/siaxleebi/sazogadoeba/122108-ar-sheveguebit-rusul-okupatsias-sabchota-okupatsiidan-105-tslis-tavze-tbilisshi

23:01, 25 February 2026

Protesters in Tbilisi timed their march to coincide with the 105th anniversary of the battles with the Red Army.

On the 455th day of continuous protests, supporters of Georgia's European integration held a march to commemorate the 105th anniversary of the Soviet occupation. Security forces prevented them from completely occupying the road, citing a lack of permission.

A memorial plaque on Politkovskaya's house was destroyed. Screenshot from RusNews photo from February 25, 2026, https://t.me/rusnews/81003

22:25, 25 February 2026

The plaque on Politkovskaya's house has been destroyed once again.

For the 24th time, unknown individuals have destroyed the memorial plaque on the Moscow building where Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered – once they smashed the memorial plaque, and 23 times they destroyed plaques that activists had restored.

Signing the contract. Photo screenshot: https://моидокументы62.рф/news/785855/?special=y

21:45, 25 February 2026

Lawyers assessed the legality of the refusal to send Ziyavudin Ashikov to the Special Military District.

The law does not require contracts to be signed with all prisoners who express a desire to be sent to a military operation zone. In Dagestan, selectively granting such an opportunity could be corrupt, lawyers emphasized, commenting on reports of numerous refusals to send Ziyavudin Ashikov, former acting head of the Kaspiysk police department, to the SVO zone.

21:10, 25 February 2026

A Dagestani soldier was killed in the SVO zone.

Adilkhan Abdaev from Khasavyurt was killed in combat. Over the past four years, authorities have publicly named at least 1,827 Dagestani servicemen killed in Ukraine.

20:20, 25 February 2026

The court has toughened the punishment for a businessman in the Makhachkala explosion case.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan has increased the sentence for Eldar Nasrulaev, who was found guilty of improper storage of ammonium nitrate following an explosion near a gas station on the outskirts of Makhachkala in August 2023. He was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison.

19:54, 25 February 2026

Tofig Yagublu's hunger strike was a reaction to his imprisonment in a solitary confinement cell.

Azerbaijani opposition politician Tofig Yagublu has been placed in solitary confinement. His daughter attributes the punishment to her brother's participation in a protest in Washington, D.C., outside the hotel where the Azerbaijani president was staying. In protest, Yagublu has declared a hunger strike.

19:03, 25 February 2026

The cable car collapse case in Kabardino-Balkaria has reached court.

The Nalchik City Court of Kabardino-Balkaria will hear a criminal case against the manager of a cable car whose collapse in the summer of 2025 injured 13 people.

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.

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