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Alexey Shchus was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 1,611 fighters from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized.

A standoff has erupted at a church in Talin: supporters of the Civil Contract party are preventing a serving priest from entering the church to conduct the Christmas liturgy, insisting on a defrocked priest conducting the service. The party's leader, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, announced his intention to lead a religious procession in Yerevan to express his support for the reform of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

Following the lifting of flight restrictions imposed for safety reasons, the arrival of seven flights and the departure of three others were delayed at Volgograd Airport.

Ekpin Davletkaliyev and Muksi Aliyev were killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 674 fighters from the Astrakhan region have been confirmed killed.

A new agreement for the supply of 33 billion cubic meters of natural gas was signed between Azerbaijan and Turkey.

A court in Krasnodar Krai fined tattoo artist Kirill Bortsov two thousand rubles for posting an example of his work on social media containing extremist symbols.

A Baksan resident complained to the prosecutor's office that two children and the elderly parents of her husband, who was killed during the Second Military Operation, had not received their survivor's pension for over a year. Following the prosecutor's office's appeal to the military registration and enlistment office, the deceased's family was awarded a pension and a recalculation was made.

The bulk of volunteers were initially focused on cleaning up fuel oil along the coast of Anapa; fewer people reached the Temryuk district, where oil products are still abundant. Furthermore, government support for volunteers has sharply decreased, explaining the decline in volunteers willing to participate.

In Makhachkala, energy workers discovered 76 mining machines during a raid in an apartment building that were slated for connection to the power grid.

A cargo ship ran aground near Cape Zhelezny Rog in the Krasnodar region; the crew evacuated themselves.

During the week from December 29, 2025, to January 4, 2026, one person was killed in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts of Russia. These are the results of the "Caucasian Knot" calculations based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Zagirbek Suleimanov from Derbent was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have officially acknowledged at least 1,770 combatants from Dagestan killed there.

On the 404th day of daily protests, supporters of Georgia's European integration announced a joint Christmas celebration outside the parliament building and congratulated political prisoner Zviad Ratiani on his birthday.

Anzor Chergizov, a native of the village of Shalazhi, was forcibly sent from the penal colony to the war zone shortly before the end of his sentence, after complaining about the actions of the prison administration.

A large family of ethnic Azerbaijanis was subjected to harassment on social media after the Yekaterinburg district head presented gifts to the children, staging a "Wish Tree" (Yolaniy) party. The head of the family subsequently asked officials to take back the gifts.

The state of emergency in Adygea, where infrastructure damage following heavy snowfall was being repaired since December 31, will be lifted on January 6.

Mikhail Cherevkov from Mikhaylovsk was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 892 soldiers from the Stavropol Krai have been officially recognized as killed.

Activist Farnaoz Chkadua, who was sentenced to four years in prison in Georgia and had been living in Poland since 2019, was detained at Tbilisi Airport.

Ramzan Kadyrov appointed his eldest son, Akhmat Kadyrov, and Akhmed Dudayev, head of the Chechen Ministry of Nationalities and Information, as acting deputy prime ministers of Chechnya. Both retained their current ministerial posts.

Residents of Makhachkala have appealed to the city administration to repair a street in the Eltav neighborhood, along which most local children walk to school.