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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.
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.
News
Alipat Sultanbegova, an activist. Photo: SOTA https://t.me/sotaproject/54465 Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of February 20-26, 2023

Ziyavudin (on the left) and Magomed Magomedov. Collage by the "Caucasian Knot". Photo: REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva Week in the Caucasus: review of main events on November 28-December 4, 2022

Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of December 28-January 3, 2020

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.