Karachay-Cherkessia

January 27, 2026 10:55

• Holocaust Remembrance Week was marked in southern Russia with educational events.

  Library and educational institution staff, as well as representatives of Jewish communities in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts, held lectures, meetings, and other informational events to mark Holocaust Remembrance Week.

January 27, 2026 01:33

• During the week from January 19 to 25, one person was killed in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts.

  During the week of January 19–25, 2026, two casualties were recorded in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts of Russia: one person was killed and one was wounded. These are the results of the "Caucasian Knot" calculations based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

January 26, 2026 22:39

• Two fighters from Karachay-Cherkessia were killed in a military operation.

  Oleg Balyasnikov and Temirlan Shungarov from Cherkessk were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, authorities and security forces have acknowledged at least 180 fighters from Karachay-Cherkessia as killed.

January 26, 2026 02:52

• The director of a management company has been convicted after two people died from gas poisoning in Cherkessk.

  The director of a management company in Cherkessk was sentenced to two years of forced labor for the deaths of two people in January 2024 from carbon monoxide poisoning.

January 24, 2026 03:19

• The arrest of those involved in the case against the brother of the head of Ingushetia has been extended.

  A court in Cherkessk extended the pretrial detention of 29 defendants in the case of embezzlement of funds from the Russian Pension Fund until April 30, including Magomed-Bashir Kalimatov.

January 20, 2026 01:43

• No casualties were recorded in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts from January 5 to 18.

  During the two weeks from January 5 to January 18, 2026, no casualties were recorded in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts of Russia. These are the results of the "Caucasian Knot" calculations based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

January 19, 2026 11:55

• The number of fighters from southern Russia killed in Ukraine has exceeded 8,500.

  At least 4,194 soldiers from the North Caucasus Federal District and 4,310 from the Southern Federal District have been officially recognized as killed in the military operation in Ukraine.

January 14, 2026 22:00

• Victims of the maternity capital scam in Karachay-Cherkessia are seeking criminal prosecution of all those involved.

  Karachay-Cherkessia resident Galimat Okhtova filed a complaint to open a new criminal case regarding the theft of her daughter, Angelina Karova,'s maternity capital, based on "newly discovered circumstances." Two women, who confessed to the theft during a separate investigation, were only present as witnesses. Karova received five thousand rubles every three months from the convicted Karaeva in compensation, but the payments stopped.

January 13, 2026 14:39

• Rauf Arashukov found guilty in bribery case

  The court found the former senator from Karachay-Cherkessia, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, guilty of attempting to bribe a prison colony employee and ordered him to pay a fine of 120 million rubles.

January 09, 2026 07:59

• The number of fighters from southern Russia killed in Ukraine has exceeded 8,450.

  At least 4,172 soldiers from the North Caucasus Federal District and 4,280 from the Southern Federal District have been officially recognized as killed in the military operation in Ukraine.

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