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02:43, 24 February 2026
A delegation of Balkars attended the memorial events marking the 82nd anniversary of the forced deportation of the Vainakh people in Ingushetia. Only one regional head in the North Caucasus Federal District expressed public condolences to the Chechens and Ingush.
02:34, 24 February 2026
A 55-year-old housewife from Akhuryan was arrested for one month after reporting a fake account created in her name to police and was charged with inciting violence for a post about Nikol Pashinyan.
01:35, 24 February 2026
Trade union activist Sara Rahimova was unable to clarify the reasons for the ban on her leaving Azerbaijan and the criminal case against her, even though the investigator himself promised to contact her on February 23.
00:43, 24 February 2026
The Slavyansk City Court extended the house arrest of Hieromonk Ilya Sigida, who is accused of desecrating symbols of military glory through online publications, until March 20.
00:03, 24 February 2026
Ruslan Mikhraliev from the Tabasaran district was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, authorities and security forces have officially recognized at least 1,818 fighters from Dagestan as killed.
Protesters on Rustaveli Avenue, February 23, 2026. Photo: Mindia Gabadze / Publika
23:09, 23 February 2026
Participants in the protest on Rustaveli Avenue, now in its 453rd day, honored the memory of the Georgian cadets and volunteers who died in an unequal battle with the Red Army in February 1921. Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Sadigov burned photographs of Bidzina Ivanishvili, Vladimir Putin, and the Kremlin.
22:12, 23 February 2026
A homemade memorial plaque installed by activists on the facade of Anna Politkovskaya's Moscow home was once again destroyed. A stenciled inscription about the journalist's murder was also painted over.
21:38, 23 February 2026
Muradin Konov was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, at least 183 soldiers from Karachay-Cherkessia have been officially recognized as killed there.
Nika Gvaramia told reporters he doesn't understand the charges against him. Photo: TV Pirveli / https://tvpirveli.ge/ka/siaxleebi/politika/121939-nika-gvaramias-agkvetis-gonisdziebis-sakhit-30-000-lariani-girao-sheeparda
20:40, 23 February 2026
Tbilisi City Court Judge Tamar Makharablidze ordered Nika Gvaramia, leader of the opposition coalition "For Change," to post bail of 30,000 lari (approximately $11,000) as a preventative measure in the "sabotage case." The politician himself stated that he was unclear of the charges against him.
A memorial event commemorating the deportation of Chechens. Grozny, February 23, 2026. Photo: Grozny-Inform https://www.grozny-inform.ru/
19:50, 23 February 2026
In Chechnya, an official memorial rally for the victims of deportation has been established, featuring officials and security forces, without the mass participation of ordinary Chechen residents, who observe the memorial day in a small family circle.
19:42, 23 February 2026
293 people who left during the Karabakh conflict returned to the villages of Ashagy Oratag, Chyldyran, Chapar and Heyvali in the Agdere region, and 63 families received keys to their homes.
Still image: "A punctured water supply tank in the village of Turumovka, Dagestan." Photo: "Chernovik" 2.0 / Telegram channel
18:43, 23 February 2026
Residents of the village of Turumovka use water from an artesian well, but the storage tank has long since fallen into disrepair. Due to the administration's failure to respond to residents' complaints, a criminal case has been opened.
17:45, 23 February 2026
Artur Gan from Kamyshin was killed during a special operation in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,692 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.
A memorial event for the deportation of the Ingush people in Nazran, February 23, 2026. Photo: https://www.instagram.com/p/DVGL7fqiAfg/?img_index=12. Photo courtesy of Meta, a company banned in Russia.
17:40, 23 February 2026
The event took place at the Memorial of Memory and Glory in Nazran.
Sochi Airport. Photo: https://sochi.ru/press-sluzhba/novosti/1359/175250/
16:50, 23 February 2026
Sochi Airport suspended operations for the third time in one day.
15:53, 23 February 2026
Participants in the memorial ceremony commemorating the deportation of the Vainakhs gathered at the memorial complex in the village of Novokuli. However, the authorities considered the event a religious one.
Ali Karimli. Screenshot of photo Oxu.Az from 11/29/25, https://oxu.az/ru/proisshestviya/zaderzhan-ali-kerimli.
14:54, 23 February 2026
The Public Committee for the Defense of the Rights of the Arrested Head of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, Ali Kerimli, called on the international community to increase pressure on the Azerbaijani authorities to secure his release and that of other political prisoners.
13:55, 23 February 2026
Dmitry Ivatkin and Denis Ivanov were killed in the military operation. Since its beginning, at least 832 fighters from Kuban have been officially recognized as killed.
12:57, 23 February 2026
A drone attack in Krasnodar damaged windows in a private home and a car.
11:58, 23 February 2026
Today, Ingushetia and Chechnya mark the 82nd anniversary of Stalin's deportation of the Vainakhs.
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.