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The Supreme Court of Dagestan sentenced a local resident to 15 years in prison for the 2011 murder of the rector of the Institute of Theology and International Relations, Maksud Sadikov, and his nephew, Zalimkhan Musayev.

In Krasnodar, the criminal investigation against a minor accused of committing a terrorist crime has been completed. The case was initiated following messages in a messenger chat.

The prosecutor's office is demanding that the acquittal of lawyer Diana Tsipinova be overturned. Five colleagues are representing her in the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, calling for the decision to stand.

Journalist Eliso Kiladze has been arrested in connection with a call center case involving former Georgian prosecutor Otar Partskhaladze. According to the prosecutor's office, the fraudulently obtained funds were used to finance opposition media outlets.

The cases of Ullubiy Khanmurzaev and Alexey Kopaigorodsky, whose contracts with the Ministry of Defense did not save them from criminal prosecution, only highlighted the general practice of sending officials accused of corruption on military operations.

Refusal to provide food and clothing to her two minor children resulted in a criminal case for a resident of Kuban.

A fire that occurred after a drone struck an oil tank in the village of Volna in the Temryuk district has been extinguished.

The European Court of Human Rights has ordered the Azerbaijani authorities to pay €4,000 to human rights activist Rufat Safarov for violating his right to a fair trial in 2016.

Twenty-year-old Danila Telyatnikov was killed in a military operation in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,686 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

A military court in Nalchik sentenced a resident of Ingushetia to five years in prison, finding him guilty of leaving his unit without permission during mobilization.

At a court hearing in Baku, journalists accused in the Meydan TV case protested against having their microphones turned off and being barred from their lawyers. Law enforcement officials issued a report for disturbing the peace.

The military shot down drones in the Millerovsky and Sholokhovsky districts. According to the governor, there were no injuries.

The court has softened the preventive measures for the brother and nephew of the Catholicos of All Armenians, who were in custody on charges of obstructing election campaigning.

Oleg Gariaev from the Yustinsky district was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 214 fighters from Kalmykia have been confirmed killed.

The Cassation Court granted the prosecutor's office's motion to change the territorial jurisdiction of the case of former deputy head of the Kuban Ministry of Emergency Situations, Sergei Simonenko, and transferred it to Rostov-on-Don.

The case of a 91-year-old pensioner from the village of Dinskaya, accused of indecent assault, was sent to court on November 7 of last year. The hearings have been postponed four times, this time to April 20. His family declined to comment to avoid further attention.

Lolita Milyavskaya's concert in Volgograd has been officially cancelled due to a public boycott. Analysts, however, believe that nationalist organizations and government officials had a hand in the cancellation, amid demands for media figures to demonstrate trustworthiness.

The Chechen Supreme Court's decision deprived Zarema Musayeva's defense of the opportunity to seek her transfer to another prison colony and parole, and a new trial could even result in a harsher sentence.

During the week of February 9–15, 2026, armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts of Russia resulted in four casualties: one killed and three wounded. These are the results of the "Caucasian Knot" tally, based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

For the seventeenth time, Moscow activists have installed a memorial plaque in honor of Anna Politkovskaya near the house where the journalist lived and was killed.