Russia

January 28, 2026 05:20

• Mearakishvili spoke about the security forces' visit to her parents.

  Tamara Mearakishvili contacted Sergei Kiriyenko, First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Russian Presidential Executive Office, and reported that security forces had visited her parents in Leningor, confiscated their phones, and conducted a search.

January 28, 2026 03:54

• Sochi police have declined to open a fraud case against the Savelyev family.

  The Savelyev family, who lost their home during the construction of the Olympic highway in Sochi, learned that the barracks from which they were evicted had been acquired by a local official before being demolished. Police declined to open a criminal case because they were able to locate the barracks' new owner.

January 28, 2026 02:55

• Dagestan's Interior Ministry veterans have proposed police reform.

  A month ago, a group of public figures, including veterans of the Dagestan Ministry of Internal Affairs, sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin proposing strategic reform of the agency. They believe that only urgent reform can resolve the problem of corruption within the ministry. A month later, there has been no response to the letter.

January 28, 2026 00:24

• Activists have restored the memorial plaque to Anna Politkovskaya for the eighth time.

  Another temporary plaque on the home of murdered Moscow journalist Anna Politkovskaya was destroyed on the morning of January 27. That afternoon, Yabloko activists installed a new memorial.

January 27, 2026 21:47

• More than 70 people supported the call to bury Aishat Baimuradova in Armenia.

  A petition calling for the return of the body of Chechen woman Ayshat Baimuradova, murdered in Yerevan, to her friends for burial in Armenia has garnered 73 signatures in just one day.

January 27, 2026 16:58

• The prosecutor has requested a long sentence for comedian Ostanin.

  At a Moscow court hearing, the prosecution requested a five-year, 11-month prison sentence and a 300,000-ruble fine for Yeysk stand-up comedian Artemy Ostanin. The maximum sentence under the extremism charge is six years in prison.

January 27, 2026 05:56

• The ECHR ruled the liquidation of the "Council of Teips of the Ingush People" illegal.

  The European Court of Human Rights has ruled the liquidation of the "Council of Teips of the Ingush People" in 2020, as well as the fine imposed on its chairman, Murat Daskiev, in 2019, illegal.

January 27, 2026 04:57

• Another water outage in Dagestan has left residents confused.

  In Makhachkala, several districts have been without water for over a day due to a pipeline rupture. The authorities' promised restoration deadlines have long passed, but local residents say there is still no water. They wonder if such accidents are too common in Dagestan.

January 27, 2026 03:16

• Mourning events took place in southern Russia in memory of the victims of the Decossackization

  Cossacks from the Rostov and Volgograd regions, as well as the Krasnodar Territory, attended memorial services for the victims of the Decossackization and honored their memory. A requiem concert was held in Volgograd for the victims of Cossack repression.

January 27, 2026 02:17

• The memorial plaque on Politkovskaya's house has been restored for the seventh time.

  Moscow activists have restored the memorial plaque on Anna Politkovskaya's house for the seventh time, also installing a portrait of the murdered journalist on the wall.

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