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20:11, 16 April 2026
The court sent a Stavropol resident who reported torture to a penal colony.
The Predgorny District Court of Stavropol Krai sentenced Eldar Kulbyakov, who accused security forces of torturing him with electric shocks, to four years in prison after finding him guilty of theft.
19:40, 16 April 2026
Over 650 birds covered in oil products were delivered to volunteers in Anapa.
Over the past week, more than 650 birds contaminated with oil products have been delivered from the beaches of Anapa to the rehabilitation center on Zhemchuzhnaya Street.
18:46, 16 April 2026
More than a dozen supporters of the Strong Armenia party were detained.
More than a dozen supporters of the Strong Armenia party have been detained on charges of giving and receiving election bribes.
18:01, 16 April 2026
The court seized more than 80 substations in Dagestan from Magomed Kaitov.
Moscow's Nikulinsky Court has seized the Khasavyurt power grid complex, illegally acquired by Magomed Kaitov, former head of the Interregional Grid Company of the North Caucasus, and turned it over to the state.
17:15, 16 April 2026
A meteorologist from the Sulak station was evacuated on the second attempt.
The helicopter was able to pick up a weather forecaster from the Sulak Vysokogornaya weather station; the station worker's health is not in danger.
A landfill on Novoselov Street in Sochi. Photo by a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
16:15, 16 April 2026
Sochi residents are seeking to have the landfill closed.
A container site beneath the windows of buildings on Novoselov Street in Sochi has effectively become an illegal dumpsite, infested with rats and rank with odors that prevent apartment windows from being opened. However, appeals to the authorities, including the presidential administration, have been fruitless.
15:14, 16 April 2026
178 people were evacuated due to landslides in a mountainous region of Dagestan.
A landslide in the Dakhadayevsky District continues to move, destroying 17 homes and damaging 87 more. 178 residents have been evacuated and are being housed with relatives. Roads and a water main were also damaged.
14:15, 16 April 2026
Residents of Tuapse reported a nighttime attack on the city.
The massive attack on Tuapse continued throughout the night, terrifying the city's residents. The smell of burning lingers in Tuapse this morning, but Rospotrebnadzor reported no air pollution.
13:15, 16 April 2026
The editor-in-chief of Sapa did not admit guilt in bribery.
Alina Dzhikaeva, charged with bribing a police officer, pleaded not guilty. The officer, a duty officer at the Makhachkala Department of Internal Affairs, admitted to abuse of power and accepting a bribe.
12:15, 16 April 2026
A fighter from the Rostov region was killed in a military operation.
Denis Orlov was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 884 soldiers from the Rostov region have been officially recognized as killed.
06:22, 16 April 2026
Villagers in the mountains of Dagestan are counting the damage from the bad weather.
In the high-mountain village of Khosrekh, blockaded by snow, dozens of homes were damaged and numerous livestock were lost. Landslides threaten transportation in the Kulinsky District of Dagestan.
05:22, 16 April 2026
Residents of a village in Makhachkala have accused officials of inaction.
Officials took no action to clear the flooded streets in the Reduktorny settlement of Makhachkala, and the prolonged power and water outages forced some residents to leave their apartments.
04:23, 16 April 2026
The sentence in the case of the deaths at a pumping station in Volgograd has been increased.
The Volgograd Regional Court has increased the sentence for Dmitry Lebedev, former chief engineer of Water Supply Concessions, sentencing him to five years in a penal colony.
03:24, 16 April 2026
A resident of Adygea was convicted of financing extremists.
A court in Adygea sentenced a local resident to a fine after investigators found him making money transfers to an extremist organization.
02:26, 16 April 2026
The regional state of emergency has been extended to the mountainous regions of Dagestan.
In addition to the federal emergency regime in effect in Dagestan, Sergei Melikov declared a regional emergency regime due to severe weather in several areas of the republic, including mountainous ones.
01:29, 16 April 2026
Some prisoners in the Taganrog pretrial detention center have ended their hunger strike.
In the Taganrog pretrial detention center, checks were conducted after the Muslim prisoners began their dry hunger strike, and their situation improved somewhat. Some prisoners are still refusing food, but intend to gradually end their hunger strike.
00:30, 16 April 2026
Russian analysts assessed the potential of the Trans-Caspian Corridor amid the war in Iran.
Given economic factors, the Trans-Caspian Corridor is not capable of replacing the sea routes through the Straits of Hormuz or Bab el-Mandeb. However, against the backdrop of the war in Iran, its importance as an alternative route to Europe has temporarily increased, according to Russian analysts.
A still of protesters outside the Georgian Parliament on the 504th day of continuous protests. Photo: Publika / Facebook
23:31, 15 April 2026
Pro-European protests in Tbilisi have continued for 504 consecutive days.
On the 504th day of uninterrupted protests, protesters at the Georgian Parliament once again took to Rustaveli Avenue with banners and flags. The activists declared they would not pay the administrative fines, despite the freezing of their bank accounts.
22:31, 15 April 2026
Anton Chechin's detention regime has been tightened
Russian citizen Anton Chechin, a participant in pro-European protests convicted in Georgia, has been transferred to a closed prison. Chechin and another convicted Russian, Artem Gribul, were fined for card playing.
The crossing at Novogrigoryevskaya. Photo courtesy of Svetlana Surkova to "Caucasian Knot."
22:02, 15 April 2026
The lack of a crossing over the Don River has worried residents of a village in the Volgograd region.
The ferry crossing across the Don River near the village of Novogrigoryevskaya has been out of service for four days. The "state" ferry is undergoing repairs, while the "private" ferry has been closed by regulatory authorities. A district council member has reassured local residents that the private ferry will resume service on April 16, and the "state" ferry on June 1.
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Serbian authorities have changed their minds about granting citizenship to Ramzan Kadyrov's nephew.

Activists reported mass arrests in Chechnya.

Human rights activists reported violations of Belkisa Mintsayeva's rights.

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.