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13:41, 25 December 2025
An MMA fighter from Dagestan was arrested for beating a woman in the Tver region.
A professional MMA fighter from Dagestan has been arrested in connection with the beating of a woman in the Tver region, leaving her with multiple injuries.
12:42, 25 December 2025
The fire in the port of Temryuk has doubled in size.
Two oil storage tanks are burning after a drone attack in the port of Temryuk. The fire has spread to 4,000 square meters. The emergency response team confirmed that no oil products have leaked into the Black Sea.
FSB officers detain Alibi Yaipkaev. December 25, 2025. Screenshot from FSB video: https://ria.ru/20251225/dagestan-2064521211.html
11:43, 25 December 2025
A participant in the attack on Dagestan has been arrested in Stavropol.
The court arrested Alibi Yaipkaev, a resident of Stavropol Krai, accused of attacking the Botlikh region of Dagestan in 1999.
A session of the Armenian Parliament. Photo: Report https://report.az/
10:46, 25 December 2025
Azerbaijani activists criticized the Amnesty Act
Azerbaijani activists and journalists living abroad have criticized the Amnesty Act passed by the Azerbaijani Parliament, calling the current amnesty a manipulation.
Drone attack on a Gazelle vehicle. Illustration created by Caucasian Knot using AI in the Copilot program.
09:50, 25 December 2025
Three people were killed in a shelling of a convoy from Dagestan.
A convoy traveling from Dagestan came under fire in a border area. Three people were killed, including the deputy head of the Shamil district.
Fire at an oil depot. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program.
08:49, 25 December 2025
Oil tanks caught fire in the port of Temryuk after a drone strike.
Drone attacks were reported in the Krasnodar and Rostov regions. Officially, there were no casualties.
Murad Sultanli. Screenshot of a photo from Natig Adilov's page, December 17, 2025, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10238936297361641&set=a.2117380289798 (Meta, the company that owns the social network, is banned in Russia).
07:54, 25 December 2025
The court has reduced the sentence of an Azerbaijani opposition activist.
The Court of Appeal reduced the term of administrative arrest of the activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan Murad Sultanli.
06:41, 25 December 2025
A court in Rostov-on-Don convicted a son and mother of terrorist attacks.
The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Vladislav and Elena Zaitsev, finding them guilty of terrorism and sabotage on the territory of the DPR.
06:06, 25 December 2025
A defendant in the case of Krymsk Mayor Yanis Budagov has been arrested.
The court has arrested Krymsk resident Alexander Lukyanov, who, according to investigators, is the purchaser of the land plot for the sale of which Yanis Budagov was accused of abuse of office.
05:24, 25 December 2025
Former MP Ruben Hakobyan fined in Armenia
The court fined former National Assembly member Ruben Hakobyan, finding him guilty of calling for the seizure of power.
The arrest of a blogger. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program.
04:32, 25 December 2025
A blogger from Melitopol was detained in the Rostov region on charges of espionage.
A Melitopol resident has been arrested in the Rostov region. Investigators believe he used blogging as a cover to gather information about Russian military deployments and pass it on to Ukrainian intelligence.
Grigol Liluashvili. Photo: 1tv.ge
03:33, 25 December 2025
Grigol Liluashvili has been arrested.
A Tbilisi court has remanded in custody former head of the Georgian Security Service Grigol Liluashvili, who was detained the day before on charges of accepting large bribes.
02:34, 25 December 2025
The property of former Rostov Region Vice Governor Okunev has been seized.
A Moscow court has seized the property of former Rostov Region Vice Governor Vladimir Okunev and his former deputy Svetlana Shapovalova.
A bag in the square. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the ChatGPT program.
01:45, 25 December 2025
During the week from December 15 to 21, no casualties were recorded in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts of Russia.
During the week of December 15–21, 2025, no casualties were recorded in armed or terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts of Russia. These are the results of a Caucasian Knot tally based on its own materials and information from other open sources.
00:59, 25 December 2025
Hieromonk Jonah fined for disrespecting the state
A court in Slavyansk-on-Kuban deemed Ilya Sigida's publication about Putin to be disrespectful of the state, imposing a fine of 40,000 rubles. Three more administrative charges were filed against Viktor Pivovarov, assistant to the Archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church – two under the same article and one for discrediting the army.
A man in court. Illustration created by Caucasian Knot using AI in the Copilot program.
23:59, 24 December 2025
The prosecution has requested lengthy sentences for the Caucasus natives in the Moscow terrorist attack case.
The state prosecution asked the Second Western District Military Court to sentence Ingushetia natives Batukhan Tochiyev and Ramazan Padiev to 26 and 24 years, respectively, and Baku native Robert Safaryan to 28 years. The prosecutor requested a life sentence for the perpetrator of the terrorist attack that killed Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov and his assistant.
Monument in Grozny. Still from a photo from Ramzan Kadyrov's Telegram channel, December 24, 2025, https://t.me/RKadyrov_95/6250.
23:40, 24 December 2025
A monument in memory of those killed in the AZAL plane crash has been unveiled in Grozny.
On the eve of the anniversary of the AZAL plane crash in Kazakhstan, a monument to the victims was unveiled in Grozny. Vladimir Putin today congratulated Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on his birthday. A few days before the anniversary, Aliyev declined to attend the informal CIS summit.
22:57, 24 December 2025
The amount of embezzlement during the execution of state defense orders in Dagestan exceeded 500 million.
The investigation into the embezzlement of over 500 million rubles during the execution of a state defense contract in Dagestan has been completed, and the defendants' property has been seized.
22:31, 24 December 2025
Protesters in Tbilisi reported being persecuted for "blocking the sidewalk."
Dozens of activists reported on social media that they had been summoned to Tbilisi City Court for "blocking the sidewalk" on Rustaveli Avenue. Despite the summonses, on the 392nd day of protests, supporters of European integration, as before, gathered outside the Georgian Parliament.
Anapa's central beach on December 21. Screenshot from the "Makovozovy" Telegram channel, https://t.me/makovozovy/50765.
21:34, 24 December 2025
Early bookings have shown the 2026 season in Anapa to be a failure.
The number of tours booked to Anapa for the 2026 season has fallen by 60% compared to sales figures at the end of 2024. Hotels and other accommodation facilities are in a crisis situation comparable to the coronavirus pandemic and require urgent government support.
News
Authorities have not yet begun pumping fuel oil from the parts of the tankers that sank near Anapa.

Authorities have officially acknowledged that more than 8,550 fighters from southern Russia were killed in the military operation.

The family of a disabled teenager from Krasnodar has dropped their appeal against his exclusion from the national team for a "Nazi gesture."

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.