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The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria was unable to assemble a three-member panel to review the murder case of judoka Aslan Kambiev. The court is awaiting the outcome of the appeal against the cassation court's ruling, a lawyer suggested.

Those involved in the attack on journalists outside Kakha Kaladze's election headquarters in the fall of 2025 have been charged with obstructing journalistic activity. The defendants remain at large.

Ivan Kulakovsky and Vladimir Zakharchenko were killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 383 soldiers from Kabardino-Balkaria have been officially recognized as killed.

Ninety Azerbaijani families who fled the city of Aghdam during the Karabakh conflict have returned to their apartments.

Residents of the rural settlement of Sagopshi in the Malgobek district appealed to the head of the region, Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov, asking him to address the lack of energy infrastructure on Belkharoev Street.

Rashid Adzhiev from Khasavyurt was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have publicly named at least 1,838 Dagestani combatants killed there.

The prosecution has appealed the lenient sentence given to police officer Dmitry Korchagin, who was charged with the death of detainee Ilya Afrosin. Afrosin's family plans to seek compensation for emotional distress.

A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Kropotkin resident Vladislav Suryadnov to a long prison term, finding him a participant in the “Russian Volunteer Corps”*.

A Moscow court has chosen a preventive measure for former First Deputy Minister of Defense, Vladikavkaz native Ruslan Tsalikov, who is accused of embezzlement and bribery.

Investigators and the prosecutor's office in Kabardino-Balkaria have launched an investigation into the actions of utility workers after a 70-year-old woman fell into a manhole on Pushkin Street in Nalchik. The elderly woman was hospitalized with fractures.

Artur Mozgovoy from the Mozdok district was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, at least 562 combatants from North Ossetia have been officially recognized as killed.

The Krasnodar Regional Court sentenced Romanian citizen Adrian-David Kercho to 15 years in prison for espionage on behalf of Ukraine. In December 2024, security forces detained him in Abkhazia, and in April 2025, the FSB announced his arrest in Sochi.

On the 463rd day of continuous protests outside the Georgian parliament building, amendments criminalizing non-recognition of government bodies and “extremism against the constitutional order” came into force.

A criminal case of embezzlement has been opened against former Russian Deputy Defense Minister Ruslan Tsalikov, a native of Vladikavkaz. He faces up to 20 years in prison.

Two hundred Russian soldiers have been returned to Russia as part of a prisoner exchange with Ukraine, and two hundred Ukrainian prisoners of war have been transferred in exchange, according to State Duma deputy from Chechnya Shamsail Saraliev.

The drone attack on the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic was likely deliberate, but Azerbaijan will initially limit itself to diplomatic and political measures, avoiding direct military escalation, according to analysts in Baku.

The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria sentenced a local resident to 13 years in prison, finding him guilty of treason and preparation for sabotage.

The court imposed territorial restrictions on Khachatryan, prohibiting him from leaving the Vagharshapat community. The cleric is also prohibited from communicating with witnesses in the case.

The Secretary of the Abkhazian Security Council stated that more than half of the drones fell into the sea, with only 14 reaching land. He was unable to identify their origin. Social media users demanded answers about the source of the threat.

The Kirovsky District Court of Yekaterinburg sentenced Shahin Shykhlinski, the former head of the Azerbaijani diaspora in the Urals, to 22 years in a maximum-security prison colony. Six other defendants in the case of the murder of local entrepreneurs will serve between ten and twenty years in a maximum-security prison colony.