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In Krasnodar, a court ordered pretrial detention for Krymsk mayor Yanis Budagov until February 18, 2026. Budagov pleaded not guilty.

The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan partially upheld the appeal of Kanal-11 head Teymur Kerimov, reducing his prison sentence by two more years, to five. His defense maintains Kerimov's innocence and now plans to appeal to the ECHR.

The Russian government has ordered 308 million rubles to be allocated to Chechnya to increase public sector wages and 300 million rubles to develop the economy.

An Astrakhan court has remanded a 13-year-old boy to a temporary detention center after he claimed after his arrest that he was planning a terrorist attack in Dagestan.

The owner of a private shelter in Aksay has become a suspect in a criminal case involving animal cruelty and death. Investigators have questioned volunteers, animal rights activists, and local residents.

Asylbek Dosaliev was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 663 soldiers from the Astrakhan region have been confirmed killed.

Military forces shot down a drone launched from Ukraine in the Volgograd region.

Today, 169 members of Azerbaijani families who fled the Karabakh conflict returned to the villages of Sos and Khorovlu. In total, more than 24,000 Azerbaijanis from 6,206 families have returned to Karabakh's towns and villages.

Gasan Antayev was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,742 fighters from Dagestan have been officially recognized as killed.

In Volgodonsk, a monument to Hero of Russia Sergei Molodov, who commanded the 6th Company of Pskov Paratroopers, was doused with green paint and defaced with graffiti. A local resident was detained and charged with desecrating monuments.

A Baku court found journalist Ganimat Zahid guilty of inciting violence against the state and sentenced him in absentia to seven years in prison.

Valentina Shostak, an activist from Goryachy Klyuch, filed a complaint against the investigator's inaction, who refused to consider her complaint about possible crimes committed during the September 12-14 elections and forwarded it to the regional electoral commission. The court dismissed the complaint.

A military court in Nalchik sentenced Abdullah Umarov to one year in prison after he left his military unit without permission and was absent for about a month.

Tikhoretsk animal welfare inspector Denis Dzhalaganiya was summoned to the police again for questioning in connection with a case of discrediting the army. The summons was prompted by another complaint from Stavropol animal rights activist Oksana Zhiteneva, who had previously attempted to accuse Dzhalaganiya of a similar offense.

A court in Nalchik sentenced Vaisul Karagulov to one year in prison, finding him guilty of leaving his unit without permission during mobilization.

Zalim Tutukov from the Leskensky district was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have publicly acknowledged that at least 350 soldiers from Kabardino-Balkaria have been killed there.

The Sovetsky District Court of Krasnodar sentenced Anatoly Yevtushenko to two years in prison, finding him a member of an extremist cell. During the court hearing, Yevtushenko pleaded not guilty and did not recant his beliefs.

During the New Year holidays, several dozen people are expected to arrive to clean up fuel oil in the Temryuk district, where deposits of old emissions are regularly discovered, the Dolphins headquarters reported, asking social media users to order groceries.

Andrei Volodin was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,595 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

The court sentenced a Central Asian man to 15 years in prison for allegedly attempting to recruit underage female residents of Maykop to join a terrorist organization.