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05:51, 7 February 2026
Human rights activists have recognized Konstantin Bernatov as a political prisoner.
The sentence of Stavropol Krai resident Konstantin Bernatov, convicted of financing extremist activity, is politically motivated and illegal, human rights activists believe.
04:53, 7 February 2026
Two people remain in hospital after an airstrike in Adygea.
Seven of the nine people who were hospitalized after the airstrike on the village of Novaya Adygeya have been discharged, and two people continue to receive treatment.
03:54, 7 February 2026
Archbishop Ajapayan placed under house arrest
The Court of Appeal granted the defense motion of Archbishop Mikael Ajapayan, Primate of the Shirak Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, and transferred him from prison to house arrest.
02:55, 7 February 2026
The head of a district in the Rostov region has been arrested for abuse of power.
The court has remanded Valery Gornich, head of the Proletarsky District, in custody until March 27 on suspicion of abuse of office.
01:56, 7 February 2026
Parties stated the importance of the upcoming elections to the National Assembly of Armenia
After the president signed a decree scheduling parliamentary elections for June 7, political parties and associations in Armenia wrote on their social media pages about the need to protect the country's interests and the problems facing its citizens.
00:57, 7 February 2026
The defendants in the Meydan TV case are outraged by the ban on filming the trial.
The defendants in the Meydan TV case requested that the indictment, which repeated the same sentences for each defendant, be shortened, but the court rejected their motion. They also requested that observers be allowed to film the trial, but this was denied.
00:43, 7 February 2026
Volgograd Airport operations have been suspended.
Restrictions have been imposed at Volgograd Airport, and a drone alert has been issued for the region.
23:44, 6 February 2026
Supporters of European integration took to the Georgian parliament for the 436th day in a row.
Protesters in Tbilisi spoke out against education reform and demanded the release of all those arrested for participating in the protests.
23:05, 6 February 2026
Kadyrov reported on the new dispatch of combatants to the front.
Another group of volunteers has been sent from Grozny to the combat zone after training at the Russian Special Forces University, Ramzan Kadyrov reported.
22:24, 6 February 2026
Twice-convicted Volgograd resident Melkonyan has been released again.
Arsen Melkonyan, who did not serve his sentence for the death of realtor Roman Grebenyuk after a conflict in a parent chat, was able to return to the war zone after being sentenced for threatening a judge, a pretrial detention center employee, and his ex-wife.
21:51, 6 February 2026
A former police chief in Rostov-on-Don has been convicted of bribery.
The court found former Rostov-on-Don police chief Alexei Abakumov guilty of accepting bribes and sentenced him to 8.5 years in a maximum security penal colony.
Participants in the conflict in the Luhansk basin. July 2025. Video screenshot: Maksym Divnich's Telegram channel.
21:21, 6 February 2026
Divnich reported on the verdict for Alikhan Bersayev
Chechen fighter Alikhan Bersayev has been convicted of leaving his unit without permission and will no longer be able to travel to the war zone, according to blogger Maxim Divnich, who participated in the conflict with Bersayev in the Luhansk basin.
20:37, 6 February 2026
Bastrykin took an interest in a complaint from villagers in Ingushetia about the road conditions.
Residents of the village of Barsuki in the Nazran district are having trouble getting the administration to repair the road leading to their school. The head of the Investigative Committee has ordered a criminal investigation.
20:26, 6 February 2026
More than 180 people supported human rights activists' call to return Baimuradova's body to her friends.
A petition by human rights activists calling for the release of the body of Chechen woman Aishat Baimuradova, killed in Yerevan, for burial by her friends has garnered over 180 signatures.
19:42, 6 February 2026
A Buinaksk resident was sentenced to a long prison term for assisting militants.
A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Yusuf Manukov from Buynaksk to nine years in prison, finding him guilty of aiding terrorist activity and publicly calling for terrorism.
18:49, 6 February 2026
Russia has suspended the issuance of internal passports in Abkhazia.
The Russian Embassy in Abkhazia announced that the offices for issuing internal Russian passports, which opened in January, will be suspended after political figures in the republic questioned their legality. Southern Federal University professor Irakli Bzhinava, who expressed similar concerns, was detained in Rostov-on-Don.
17:53, 6 February 2026
The persecution of an activist from Karachay-Cherkessia followed a fundraising effort for Palestine.
A case has been sent to the Southern District Military Court against Karachay-Cherkess activist and father of five, Rustem Aybazov, accused of financing terrorism for transferring money to a woman in Syria. In fact, according to his family and friends, the prosecution began after a large-scale fundraising effort for humanitarian aid to residents of the Gaza Strip, some of which was seized and subsequently donated to the SVO.
17:40, 6 February 2026
The date for the Armenian parliamentary elections has been set.
Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan signed a decree setting the date for the next elections to the National Assembly.
Special military operation in Ukraine. Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense press service
16:42, 6 February 2026
More than 8,600 fighters from southern Russia have been officially recognized as killed in the SVO zone.
At least 4,229 fighters from the North Caucasus Federal District and 4,373 from the Southern Federal District have been recognized by authorities and security forces as killed during the military operation in Ukraine.
A memorial plaque on Anna Politkovskaya's house. Photo: Civil Initiative Party
16:35, 6 February 2026
The memorial plaque on Anna Politkovskaya's house has been destroyed for the eighth time in three weeks.
A wooden memorial plaque that hung on the railing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya's home for more than a week has been destroyed again by unknown persons.
News
A man with a poster. Illustration created by the "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program. Krasnodar City Hall revoked permission for a rally in defense of Telegram.

A Gelendzhik resident has been accused of justifying terrorism and espionage.

The defense called the sentence of an Abkhaz resident for publications about Basayev unfounded.

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.