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11:14, 15 January 2026

A fire at a Dagestani kindergarten resulted in a criminal case.

The children from the Karata village kindergarten will be placed in other preschools in the Akhvakh district.

10:26, 15 January 2026

Elisashvili's defense accused the Penitentiary Service of discrediting the Georgian opposition leader.

Lawyers for detained opposition politician Aleko Elisashvili call the Penitentiary Service’s statements an attempt to discredit him and divert the case in the wrong direction.

09:22, 15 January 2026

A combatant from the Astrakhan region was killed during a military operation.

Andrei Makhmudov was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 677 fighters from the Astrakhan region have been officially recognized as killed.

08:25, 15 January 2026

The court has accepted the case against Azerbaijani opposition leader Taghiyev.

A Baku court has accepted a criminal case against Azerbaijan Popular Front Party activist Novruz Taghiyev, who served as a volunteer bodyguard for party leader Ali Karimli and is accused of fraud and document forgery.

07:26, 15 January 2026

Authorities in the Rostov and Volgograd regions reported drone attacks.

In the Volgograd region, drones attacked transport and energy facilities.

06:27, 15 January 2026

A Ukrainian man has been convicted in Kuban for planting explosives in trains carrying fuel.

The Krasnodar Regional Court sentenced Ukrainian citizen Igor Borisenko to a lengthy prison term, finding him guilty of attempted sabotage.

05:30, 15 January 2026

Human rights activists have recognized a Temryuk resident convicted of treason as a political prisoner.

Temryuk native Ruslan Orlovsky, sentenced to six years on charges of attempting to join a Ukrainian unit, was subjected to "carousel arrests," which human rights activists consider a sign of falsification.

04:31, 15 January 2026

A military man's wife from Stavropol was fined for discrediting the army.

A Stavropol court fined local resident Elena Peshl for discrediting the army after she attempted to locate her missing husband in the war zone.

03:32, 15 January 2026

A fighter from North Ossetia was killed in Ukraine.

Alan Tsarikayev from the Irafsky District was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have publicly named at least 540 North Ossetian combatants killed there.

02:33, 15 January 2026

Prisoners returned from Azerbaijan are being housed in Yerevan hospitals.

Four Armenian prisoners were hospitalized after returning from Azerbaijan and are being treated in Yerevan clinics. Armenia handed over to Syria two Karabakh veterans sentenced to life imprisonment and could have demanded the release of more Armenian prisoners from Baku, the human rights activist stated.

01:34, 15 January 2026

A girl who fled Ingushetia was detained in Moscow.

Aina Mankieva, from Ingushetia, who claimed she would be in danger upon returning home, was detained by police in Moscow. Law enforcement officials refused to allow Aina's lawyer to see her, human rights activists reported.

A cafeteria at a Makhachkala gymnasium. Still from a video from the Telegram channel "Chernovik" from January 10, 2025, https://t.me/chernovik/92494.

00:35, 15 January 2026

Shawarma for schoolchildren in Makhachkala outraged Telegram users.

Parents complained that shawarma and burgers were being sold to children in the school hallway in unsanitary conditions. Rospotrebnadzor reported multiple violations in the cafeteria's operations and issued an administrative citation against the entrepreneur who opened it.

23:55, 14 January 2026

A Dagestani soldier was killed in the SVO zone.

Isa Ramazanov from the Kurakhsky District was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 1,774 fighters from Dagestan have been officially recognized as killed.

Ramzan Kadyrov. Still from a video from his Telegram channel, January 12, 2026, https://t.me/RKadyrov_95/6298.

23:30, 14 January 2026

Health has become the main topic of Kadyrov's statements.

Over the course of three days, the head of Chechnya stated three times that he was experiencing no health problems and dismissed reports that he needed medical attention as fake.

413th day of continuous protests in Tbilisi. Interpressnews/https://www.interpressnews.ge/ka/article/859496-parlamenttan-saprotesto-akcia-mimdinareobs

23:00, 14 January 2026

Pro-European integration protests in Tbilisi have continued for 413 consecutive days.

Supporters of European integration in Tbilisi held a protest for the 413th day in a row, demanding the release of political prisoners. They said no march was planned today, and the protest would continue outside the parliament building.

22:51, 14 January 2026

Movlaev appealed to the UN with a request to suspend the extradition.

The defense team of Chechen native Mansur Movlaev has submitted his appeals to the Committee against Torture, UN special rapporteurs, and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Kazakhstan, requesting that his extradition to the Russian Federation be suspended.

A temporary staircase in Kizlyar. Still from a video by the State Housing Inspectorate of Dagestan from January 10, 2026, https://t.me/daggjird/10256.

22:34, 14 January 2026

A temporary ladder injured a resident of a house in Kizlyar.

One resident was injured after a stairwell collapsed in a Kizlyar apartment building and wooden decking was installed. Residents have repeatedly complained about the poor condition of the building's structures.

22:00, 14 January 2026

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.

21:00, 14 January 2026

Residents of Kaspiysk have called the problem of queues at the clinic unsolvable.

Making an appointment online with a doctor at the Kaspiysk clinic is extremely difficult, forcing residents to wait in line for hours. Meanwhile, the construction of a new clinic remains pending due to a lack of funding.

20:05, 14 January 2026

Villagers in Dagestan complained about a lack of drinking water.

Residents of the Makhachkala village of Sulak are supplied with industrial water from the Sulak River, which is undrinkable. Appealing to officials has failed to resolve the problem, the villagers complained.

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