South Federal District

December 05, 2025 02:41

• The former deputy head of the Defense Ministry's construction department has been arrested in Rostov-on-Don.

  The Southern District Military Court has arrested Dmitry Taksidi, former deputy head of the Defense Ministry's military construction complex construction department, accused of lobbying for the company's interests during the construction of a facility in the Krasnodar Territory.

December 05, 2025 01:02

• A judge of one of the Rostov courts is suspected of buying his position.

  Investigators suspect Elmira Ponomareva of bribing the former chairperson of the Sovetsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don, Elena Kobleva, to secure her appointment as a justice of the peace.

December 04, 2025 19:35

• A Volgograd blogger has been arrested in connection with an extortion case.

  A court sentenced Volgograd blogger Alexey Ulyanov to two months' pretrial detention on extortion charges. In court, he admitted receiving money for his publications, but that everything was legal.

December 04, 2025 17:40

• Another fire broke out at a landfill in Novorossiysk.

  The fire at the landfill near Novorossiysk has been extinguished, but the smoldering area extends to 220 square meters, and soil is still being filled in. Fires at the landfill are recurring due to violations of operating procedures, the ecologist noted.

December 04, 2025 14:43

• The Supreme Court upheld the sentence of Nikita Zhuravel.

  Former Volgograd student Nikita Zhuravel's appeal against his treason conviction was dismissed.

December 04, 2025 09:59

• Airports in southern Russia have resumed operations after a drone attack.

  Airports in Grozny, Magas, and Vladikavkaz have resumed operations without flight delays. At Volgograd Airport, a flight to Dubai and an arrival from Moscow were delayed.

December 04, 2025 07:59

• The operation of the Bird Rehabilitation Center in Anapa is under threat due to a 1.6 million ruble debt.

  The government is providing no assistance to the Zhemchuzhnaya Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, which houses more than 100 birds affected by the oil spill near Anapa.

December 04, 2025 06:12

• Five judges of a Rostov court are under investigation for bribery.

  Investigative Committee Chairman Alexander Bastrykin has requested approval from the High Qualification Collegium of Judges of the Russian Federation to prosecute five judges of the Sovetsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don, including Elena Kobleva, who was arrested in 2024.

December 04, 2025 05:21

• Eight soldiers from the Rostov region were killed in Ukraine.

  Armen Kazarov, Alexey Ignatenko, Oleg Klopov, and five other of their fellow countrymen were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have acknowledged at least 778 combatants from the Rostov region killed there.

December 04, 2025 03:27

• A former Wagner PMC fighter received a prison sentence in Azerbaijan.

  The Ganja Court for Serious Crimes sentenced Ismail Gasanov to 3.5 years in prison. He recruited from a Russian prison colony to the Wagner PMC and traveled to the Ukrainian war zone on the promise of release, money, and Russian citizenship.

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