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19:53, 26 December 2025
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.
19:14, 26 December 2025
The warning systems, which were tested for the third time this month in Chechnya, are operational, but there is no information on what to do in the event of a drone attack or missile strike, nor is there information on shelters, residents said. Human rights activists emphasized that the authorities are showing indifference to the fate of the republic's residents.
18:58, 26 December 2025
Shamil Magomedov, the former head of Dagestan's Untsukulsky District, who was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison for extortion and illegal possession of firearms and ammunition, failed to obtain a reduced sentence.
18:09, 26 December 2025
A Tuapse resident's apartment was completely destroyed by fire after a drone attack on November 25th, forcing her to live in rented accommodation. Neighboring apartments were also damaged, but a month later, authorities ordered only a plastic sheeting to replace the roof.
17:22, 26 December 2025
Aslan Tengizov, Amur Mashitlov, Ratmir Apshev, and five other fighters from the Baksan district were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have publicly acknowledged that at least 358 soldiers from Kabardino-Balkaria have been killed there.
At the site of the AZAL plane crash. December 25, 2024. Photo: Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
16:57, 26 December 2025
The Russian Investigative Committee's announcement that the criminal case had been terminated has raised questions among Azerbaijani authorities, said Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov, adding that Baku expects compensation from Moscow.
A sunken tanker in the Kerch Strait. Photo: Russian Government
16:00, 26 December 2025
All three cofferdams have already been installed over the sunken parts of the ships, the deputy head of the Kuban Ministry of Emergency Situations reported. Bloggers expressed hope that the protective structures will withstand the approaching storm.
Tatyana Makarova. Illustration created by the Caucasian Knot using AI in the Copilot program.
14:48, 26 December 2025
Animal shelters require constant oversight. The actions of the owner of a shelter in the Rostov region, where numerous animals died, have dealt a blow to the entire animal rights movement, social media users noted, calling for exemplary punishment for the owner of the "Forgotten Hearts" shelter, Tatyana Makarova.
Mansur Gneev. Screenshot from video https://islamnews.ru/2024/10/17/bloger-mansur-gneev-vyshel-na-svobodu
14:00, 26 December 2025
The trial court placed Islamic blogger Mansur Gneev under house arrest, but a few days later the Krasnodar Regional Court remanded him in custody, Gneev's wife said. She said security forces returned some of the items seized during the search, but the money and prayer mats, along with several other items, remain in their possession.
13:00, 26 December 2025
Vladislav Ochir-Arayev and Chingiz Bembeyev were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 204 fighters from Kalmykia have been officially recognized as killed.
12:00, 26 December 2025
Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross visited all Armenian prisoners in Azerbaijan. The visit focused on the prisoners' conditions of detention and their health.
Detention of a Kuban resident. December 26, 2025. Video screenshot: https://t.me/kavkaz_tass/28700
10:59, 26 December 2025
Law enforcement officers detained an 18-year-old resident of Kuban. Investigators believe she was lured by phone scammers to Stavropol to blow up a serviceman's car.
10:00, 26 December 2025
The Ministry of Defense reported 34 drones shot down overnight in the Volgograd Region and 23 in the Rostov Region. Another four drones were shot down over the Black and Azov Seas.
09:02, 26 December 2025
Yahya Ragimov, Yuzbeg Murtazaliev, Kemran Shikhakhmedov, and Mugaddes Samedov were killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,747 fighters from Dagestan have been officially recognized as killed.
Alexey Dmitriev, Yuri Sergeechev. Photo from a website covering the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses (396 Russian Jehovah's Witness organizations have been declared extremist, and their activities in Russia are banned by court order).
08:29, 26 December 2025
A court in Adygea found Alexey Dmitriev and Yury Sergeyechev guilty of inciting a local resident to join an extremist organization. Both Jehovah's Witnesses* and their defense team dismissed the extremism charges as unfounded.
A Russian soldier. Still from a Defense Ministry video: https://t.me/mod_russia/39882
07:36, 26 December 2025
At least 4,117 soldiers from the North Caucasus Federal District and 4,239 from the Southern Federal District have been officially recognized as killed in the military operation in Ukraine.
06:37, 26 December 2025
Last night, the military shot down drones in the Chertkovsky, Sholokhovsky, Millerovsky, and Tarasovsky districts of the Rostov region.
05:40, 26 December 2025
A court in Kabardino-Balkaria sentenced Zamir Begiyev to five years in prison, finding him guilty of leaving his unit for several months during mobilization.
04:43, 26 December 2025
Dagestani soldiers recorded a video message to the head of the republic, Sergei Melikov, in the area of a special operation in Ukraine, asking for help in bringing gas to a house in Izberbash.
03:45, 26 December 2025
Sergei Shuvaev was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have officially acknowledged at least 177 servicemen from Karachay-Cherkessia killed there.
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.