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08:59, 28 December 2025
Two regions of the Southern Federal District were hit by drone attacks.
The Ministry of Defense reported that four drones were shot down overnight in the Volgograd and Rostov regions.
Kakha Melikidze. Photo: "Georgia News" https://www.newsgeorgia.ge/na-obshhestvennom-veshhatele-gruzii-novoe-uvolnenie-oppozicionno-nastroennogo-sotrudnika/
07:59, 28 December 2025
Georgian TV channel employee fired after critical remarks
Kakha Melikidze, director of the pro-government Georgian Public Broadcaster, has been fired after making public statements criticizing the channel's editorial policy.
06:57, 28 December 2025
Drones were shot down in four districts of the Rostov region.
Last night, the military shot down drones in the Kasharsky, Bokovsky, Chertkovsky, and Sholokhov districts of the Rostov region.
05:57, 28 December 2025
A fighter from Dagestan was killed in Ukraine.
Murad Badirkhanov was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,751 soldiers from Dagestan have been officially recognized as killed.
04:55, 28 December 2025
A court in Nalchik sentenced a serviceman for leaving his unit without permission.
The Nalchik Garrison Military Court sentenced Ratmir Zakuev, who had been absent from his duty station for about a month, to five years in a maximum security penal colony.
03:56, 28 December 2025
A group of former internally displaced persons returned to the village of Vengli in Azerbaijan.
Ten families of former internally displaced persons have returned to the village of Vengli in the Agdere district and have been given keys to new apartments.
02:57, 28 December 2025
Logvinenko refuses to admit guilt in accepting a bribe
Former Rostov-on-Don mayor Alexei Logvinenko invoked Article 51 of the Russian Constitution and refused to testify against himself during interrogations.
01:58, 28 December 2025
Akhalaia accused security forces of pressuring
Former Georgian Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaia, arrested on charges of organizing violence at a protest, said he testified under pressure from security forces who threatened to arrest his wife.
00:59, 28 December 2025
21 drones were shot down over the Rostov and Volgograd regions.
On the evening of December 27, air defense forces shot down 15 drones over the Rostov region and six drones over the Volgograd region.
04:33, 27 December 2025
A nurse at a sanatorium in Nalchik appealed her conviction for infecting patients.
An appeal against the verdict was filed by a nurse at a private sanatorium in Nalchik, who was sentenced to four years in prison for infecting more than 70 people with hepatitis C and HIV.
03:35, 27 December 2025
Moldy Khabaev was convicted of assaulting a prison officer.
Mould Khabaev, convicted of the 1995 attack on Budyonnovsk and serving his sentence, was sentenced to six years in prison for attacking a prison employee.
02:36, 27 December 2025
The former head of the village of Elbrus was convicted of land fraud.
A court in Maykop found former Elbrus village head Uzeir Kurdanov and local resident Larisa Kadyrova guilty of fraud involving a plot of land in the Elbrus National Park and sentenced them to prison terms.
01:37, 27 December 2025
Elena Khoshtaria's arrest has been extended.
A Tbilisi court has extended the pretrial detention of opposition politician Elene Khoshtaria, who is accused of defacing Kakha Kaladze's election poster.
00:38, 27 December 2025
A fighter from Akhtubinsk was killed in a special operation zone.
Daniyar Kamendagaliev was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 664 soldiers from the Astrakhan region have been confirmed killed.
23:39, 26 December 2025
Activists reported 300 dead cormorants on the Sudzhuk Spit.
On December 26, the Telegram channel "Sudzhuk Lagoon #battleforproran" published photos taken on the coast of Novorossiysk. The footage shows dead cormorants. According to the source, the bodies of approximately 300 birds were found in the area between the Gesha Kozodoev monument and the Ministry of Emergency Situations base.
Protesters outside the Georgian Parliament. Screenshot from Publika photo from December 26, 2025, https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1639520170780860&set=pcb.1639520224114188
22:40, 26 December 2025
Protesters in Tbilisi demanded the right to public assembly.
The Tbilisi City Court postponed hearings on cases involving "sidewalk blockades" outside the Georgian Parliament. On the 394th day of daily protests, as on other days, supporters of European integration gathered on Rustaveli Avenue, demanding freedom of peaceful assembly.
David Ishkhanyan in court. Screenshot from Azertac photo from December 26, 2025, https://azertag.az/ru/xeber/sudebnoe_rassmotrenie_po_delu_o_grazhdanah_armenii_zaversheno-3941531.
21:42, 26 December 2025
Ishkhanyan's final statement concludes the trial of former Karabakh leaders
During a hearing at the Baku Military Court, former Nagorno-Karabakh Parliament Speaker David Ishkhanyan delivered his closing statement, denying the charges. The verdict will be announced at the next hearing.
20:53, 26 December 2025
Dagestani journalists have secured recognition of police inaction as illegal.
The Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala ruled unlawful police inaction regarding the complaints of journalists Magomed Magomedov and Idris Yusupov*, who were detained back in January 2023 during pickets in support of Abdulmumin Gadzhiev. For nearly two years, security forces ignored the journalists' allegations of unlawful detention and failed to respond to their lawyers' requests.
20:19, 26 December 2025
Former Deputy Governor of the Rostov Region Okunev has been arrested in absentia.
The Leninsky District Court of the Rostov Region has sentenced Vladimir Okunev, the region's former deputy governor and former director of a state-owned enterprise, to in absentia. He is suspected of abuse of office and restricting competition.
19:53, 26 December 2025
Security forces escaped responsibility for torturing Anapa residents.
The statute of limitations for holding police officers accountable for the torture of four Anapa residents has expired. No one has been punished for the torture in 10 years. The statute of limitations has also expired for the charges against the Anapa residents whose confessions were extracted by force.
News
Still: Members of 26 Azerbaijani families have returned to the village of Mamedbeyli in the Zangilan district. Photo: 1news.az / https://1news.az/news/20260129080321303-Ocherednaya-gruppa-pereselentsev-pribila-v-selo-Mamedbeili-FOTO-OBNOVLENO 26 Azerbaijani families have returned to the village of Mammadbeyli.

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.

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.