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Giorgi Tsulaia's case of "blocking sidewalks" has been returned for further investigation. Photo/https://www.sakartvelosambebi.ge/ge/akhali-ambebi/trotuarze-dgomis-sakme-reagirebistvis-politsiis-departaments-gadaetsa
18:52, 9 January 2026
The case against activist Tsulaia for "blocking sidewalks" has been returned for further investigation.
Giorgi Tsulaia, an activist with the United National Movement youth organization, faces up to a year in prison for protesting on the sidewalk in front of the parliament building. The court dismissed the administrative case, finding Tsulaia's actions to be criminal.
The road surface of the Transcaucasian Highway on the morning of January 9. Photo: South Ossetian Ministry of Emergency Situations / Telegram
17:55, 9 January 2026
Transkam is open to passenger cars
The Transcaucasian Highway, which connects Russia with South Ossetia, has been open to passenger vehicles since 4:30 p.m. Moscow time.
16:57, 9 January 2026
Activist Narek Samsonyan has declared a hunger strike.
A Yerevan court extended the pretrial detention of Narek Samsonyan and Vazgen Saghatelyan, co-authors of the "Imnemnimi" podcast, on charges of hooliganism. Following this ruling, Narek Samsonyan announced an indefinite hunger strike.
15:52, 9 January 2026
Azerbaijan sent its second batch of petroleum products to Armenia in three weeks.
Almost 2,000 tons of gasoline and diesel fuel will arrive in Armenia via Georgia.
Former internally displaced persons. January 9, 2026. Photo: Report https://report.az/ru/vnutrennyaya-politika/v-4-sela-agderinskogo-rajona-otpravilas-pervaya-gruppa-zhitelej
13:56, 9 January 2026
89 Azerbaijani families have returned to the former Karabakh conflict zone.
Today, 337 members of Azerbaijani families who fled during the Karabakh conflict returned to four villages. A total of 2,663 Azerbaijanis from 714 families have returned to villages in the Aghdere district.
Trolleybuses in Makhachkala. Still from a video by the Makhachkala administration https://t.me/makhachkalaofficial/14289
12:56, 9 January 2026
The mayor's office's idea to replace trolleybuses with electric buses has sparked skepticism among Makhachkala residents.
Makhachkala City Hall announced plans to auction off its trolleybus operation and use the proceeds to purchase electric buses, each costing 50 million rubles. Residents criticized the idea and recommended purchasing cheaper trolleybuses and buses.
11:56, 9 January 2026
A queue of cars formed in front of the Crimean Bridge.
Drivers of 525 vehicles are waiting their turn to cross the road bridge between Crimea and the Krasnodar Territory.
10:57, 9 January 2026
Seven fighters from Kuban were declared killed in a military operation.
In the Tuapse District, awards were presented to the relatives of soldiers killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 828 soldiers from the Krasnodar Territory have been officially recognized as killed.
Giorgi Gakharia. Photo: https://jnews.ge/55913/
09:58, 9 January 2026
Gakharia's arrest in connection with the dispersal of the "Gavrilov Night" protest has been upheld.
A Tbilisi court upheld the arrest in absentia of former Interior Minister Giorgi Gakharia, who is accused of violently dispersing protesters in June 2019.
08:58, 9 January 2026
A drone was shot down in the Rostov region.
The military shot down one drone in the Rostov region, which last night became the only region in southern Russia where an aerial attack was recorded.
A serviceman in the military operation zone in Ukraine. Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense https://z.mil.ru
07:59, 9 January 2026
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.
Cars in front of Verkhniy Lars. Photo: North Ossetia Emergency Situations Ministry Directorate https://15.mchs.gov.ru/deyatelnost/press-centr/operativnaya-informaciya/5668115
06:59, 9 January 2026
A ban on travel along the Georgian Military Highway has been introduced.
Exit from North Ossetia via the Georgian Military Highway is prohibited for all types of transport due to deteriorating weather conditions.
05:59, 9 January 2026
A Chechen woman is seeking information about the fate of her kidnapped daughter.
Chechen native Julietta Khadzhimuradova has been trying for over 20 years to find her daughter, who was forcibly taken from her by a relative after her husband's death. The girl was taken to France, but disappeared shortly thereafter.
04:54, 9 January 2026
Two soldiers from North Ossetia were killed in combat.
Artem Sayapin and Sergei Kolomiets from the Mozdok district were killed in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, authorities have publicly named at least 538 North Ossetian fighters killed.
03:55, 9 January 2026
The prosecutor's office is looking into the prolonged water outage in Kaspiysk.
Telegram users expressed outrage at the Kaspiysk administration's failure to inform residents about the progress of city water main repairs and the timeline for resuming water supply. The prosecutor's office promised to provide a legal assessment of the situation.
Vardan Gukasyan. Photo: Vardan Gukasyan's personal page / Facebook
02:56, 9 January 2026
Gyumri Mayor Vardan Ghukasyan was hospitalized from a pretrial detention center.
Arrested Gyumri Mayor Vardan Ghukasyan was taken to the Armenia Medical Center; his life is not in danger, his lawyer said.
01:58, 9 January 2026
Transkam is closed to all modes of transport.
The road between Russia and South Ossetia is closed in both directions to all types of vehicles for an indefinite period.
00:59, 9 January 2026
Four soldiers from the Rostov region were killed in Ukraine.
Anatoly Pesotsky, Mikhail Krysin, and two of their fellow countrymen from the Volgodonsk region were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have officially acknowledged the death toll of at least 826 Don servicemen.
A layer of fuel oil on the Bugayskaya Spit. Screenshot from the Telegram channel "Networks, Sieve, Shovel" from January 8, 2026, https://t.me/c/2388643645/21415.
00:02, 9 January 2026
A storm exposed a layer of fuel oil on the Bugay Spit.
Waves eroded the shoreline on the Bugayskaya Spit, revealing a layer of fuel oil. Telegram users pointed out that the coastline needs proper cleanup, not just a show-off.
Residents of a building in Stavropol complained to the governor about flooding in their apartments. Still image/ https://vkvideo.ru/video-58956239_456249642?t=38s
22:32, 8 January 2026
Residents of a building in Stavropol complained to the governor about flooding in their apartments.
During a major renovation, the contractor removed the roof covering over all the entrances at once, without regard for the season or weather conditions. When snow and rain fell, water gushed into the apartments, residents reported in their complaint.
News
Shamshad Aga. Photo: https://www.meydan.tv/ A journalist arrested in the Meydan TV case has been released from pretrial detention to attend his mother's funeral.

Human rights activists considered Gahramanov’s arrest a measure to intimidate Azerbaijani lawyers.

Nurlan Gakhramanli. Photo: https://www.instagram.com/p/DGTDtUzMO79/ belongs to the Meta company, which is banned in Russia. The condition of the Meydan TV case suspect on hunger strike in pretrial detention has worsened.

LEGAL TEXTS
The illustration was created by the Caucasian Knot using AI The peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as other documents signed at the meeting with Trump on August 8, 2025

The “Caucasian Knot" publishes the agreement on the establishment of peace and interstate relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which was initialed by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on August 8, 2025, through the mediation of US President Donald Trump. The meeting of Trump, Aliyev and Pashinyan took place on August 8 in Washington. Following the meeting, Pashinyan and Aliyev also signed a joint declaration. In addition to the agreements between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Trump signed a number of separate memoranda with Aliyev and Pashinyan....

Personalities
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili. Photo courtesy of press service of HRC 'Memorial', http://memohrc.org/ Zelimkhan Khangoshvili

A participant of the second Chechen military campaign, one of the field commanders close to Shamil Basaev and Aslan Maskhadov. Shot dead in Berlin in 2019.

Magomed Daudov. Photo: screenshot of the video http://video.agaclip.com/w=atDtPvLYH9o Magomed Daudov

Magomed "Lord" Daudov is a former Chechen militant who was awarded the title of "Hero of Russia", the chairman of the Chechen parliament under Ramzan Kadyrov.

Tumso Abdurakhmanov. Screenshot from video posted by Abu-Saddam Shishani [LIVE] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIR3s7AB0Uw Tumso Abdurakhmanov

Tumso Abdurakhmanov is a blogger from Chechnya. After a conflict with Ramzan Kadyrov's relative, he left the republic and went first to Georgia, and then to Poland, where he is trying to get political asylum.