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Gultekin Hajibeyli. Photo: https://musavat.com

10:59, 4 December 2025

Hajibeyli called on Turkish authorities not to deport her to Azerbaijan.

Turkish law enforcement agencies have initiated deportation proceedings against Azerbaijani opposition politician Gultekin Hajibeyli to Azerbaijan on suspicion of threatening public safety. She has appealed to the ECHR, urging Turkish authorities not to extradite her due to the risk of arrest.

09:59, 4 December 2025

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.

An injured bird in the hands of volunteers. Screenshot from the Zhemchuzhnaya Rehabilitation Center's Telegram channel, December 2, 2025, https://t.me/zhemchujnaya9/1256?single.

07:59, 4 December 2025

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.

07:03, 4 December 2025

Drone attacks were recorded in two regions of the Southern Federal District.

Authorities in the Rostov and Stavropol regions reported drone strikes. Officially, there were no casualties.

06:12, 4 December 2025

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.

05:21, 4 December 2025

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.

04:25, 4 December 2025

Rosaviatsiya has closed three airports in the North Caucasus.

Airports in Grozny, Vladikavkaz, and Magas have been grounded for the third night in a row. A no-fly alert has also been declared in Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, and Stavropol.

03:27, 4 December 2025

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.

02:29, 4 December 2025

A blogger from Dagestan was sentenced in absentia to eight years in Rostov-on-Don.

A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Dagestani blogger Arslan Mirzaev (Ali Charinsky), finding him guilty of spreading "fakes" about the Russian army and calling for terrorism.

01:30, 4 December 2025

Volgograd Airport closed due to drone threat

Rosaviatsiya (the Federal Air Transport Agency) has imposed temporary restrictions at Volgograd Airport, citing a threat to flight safety. A drone alert has been declared in the region.

Vidadi Mustafayev in court. Screenshot from a photo from the press service of the Sverdlovsk Region courts, December 3, 2025, https://t.me/ekboblsud/4714.

23:39, 3 December 2025

The head of the Azerbaijani community in the Urals, who replaced Shykhlinsky, has been arrested.

The court arrested Vidadi Mustafayev, head of the Azerbaijani community in Ural, on charges of fraud. Mustafayev denied his guilt.

22:28, 3 December 2025

Protests against the construction of "Arab cities" preceded a rally outside the Georgian parliament.

A rally demanding disclosure of the details of the agreement with the UAE company took place on Rustaveli Avenue outside the Eagle Hills office. Participants began collecting signatures for an online petition. The demonstrators then moved to the Georgian Parliament, where European integration supporters have been demonstrating for the 371st day in a row.

20:41, 3 December 2025

The court found the Russian Defense Ministry responsible for the plane crash in Yeysk.

In Krasnodar, the regional court reversed its decision in a lawsuit filed by a family from Yeysk who suffered damage when a Su-34 bomber crashed into a residential building in October 2022.

18:40, 3 December 2025

Former Kuban Vice Governor Voronovsky has been arrested in a corruption case.

Moscow's Basmanny Court has remanded former State Duma deputy Anatoly Voronovsky into custody on charges of accepting a particularly large bribe.

17:40, 3 December 2025

The task force reported on the cleanup of "minor emissions" of fuel oil in Anapa.

Algae in fuel oil and small emissions were discovered on the Bugayskaya Spit. The task force described them as insignificant and reported cleaning up the beach area.

16:39, 3 December 2025

A Krasnodar journalist has been placed on the wanted list.

The profile of Alexander Savelyev*, a journalist from Krasnodar and the author of the "Protocol" project who lives abroad, appeared in the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs' wanted list database. He suggested that the search may be related to prosecution under the article on "foreign agency."

15:42, 3 December 2025

Gultekin Hajibeyli is deprived of contact with her family in a Turkish deportation center.

Azerbaijani opposition politician Gultekin Hajibeyli is not allowed to see her son at a Turkish deportation center. Turkish authorities have not provided official information on whether Hajibeyli will be deported to Azerbaijan.

14:55, 3 December 2025

A court in Dagestan has reduced the sentence of the former head of a comprehensive service center.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan has reduced the suspended sentence for the head of a budgetary institution in a case involving the embezzlement of 11 million rubles to seven years.

14:53, 3 December 2025

A video about a fine for filming a drone attack has become part of a campaign by Dagestani authorities.

A video explaining the actions of a man fined for filming a drone attack on Kaspiysk serves as a stark reminder to residents of Dagestan of the consequences of publishing such videos.

13:00, 3 December 2025

The Prosecutor General's Office has demanded the seizure of property belonging to detained Ingush tax officials.

The Prosecutor General's Office filed a lawsuit demanding that the homes and foreign cars of former Ingush Federal Tax Service employees Magomed and Ilyas Kushtov, suspected of abuse of power resulting in multi-million dollar damages, be forfeited to the state.

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