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A group of Azerbaijani prisoners asked foreign embassies to provide asylum for their families or help with the education of schoolgirls facing pressure due to the ban on wearing hijabs.

The military shot down drones in four areas of the Rostov region. According to the governor, there are no injuries.

A resident of the Bryansk region, Nina Kuznetsova, expressed disagreement with the court's decision, which did not satisfy her claims for part of the neighbor's plot in the Sochi gardening association. The defendant, Alexander Batalin, pointed out violations during the two-year court proceedings.

Ramazan Musaev and Ramazan Aliyev from the Derbent district were killed in combat operations in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 2176 fighters from Dagestan have been officially recognized as killed in it.

More than 78 thousand combatants have been sent from Chechnya to the combat zone in Ukraine, reported Ramzan Kadyrov following a meeting with representatives of the security forces.

Journalists discovered the first administrative case in Dagestan regarding the search for "knowingly extremist materials" online. A protocol was drawn up against a resident of the Tabasaran district.

Statements by the Armenian authorities about activating dialogue with Ankara do not guarantee the quick opening of the border: much depends on Azerbaijan's position, which links the normalization of relations to the signing of a peace treaty, experts surveyed by "Caucasian Knot" in Yerevan indicated.

The shootout, during which a suspected militant was killed, became the first armed incident in Chechnya since April 2025, information about which was officially confirmed by the republican authorities. At the same time, their message demonstrated that data on underground activity is being carefully suppressed.

The military court in Rostov-on-Don found Krasnodar resident Evgeny Butko guilty of treason, sentencing him to 20 years in prison for transferring money to the RDK*.

Activists gathered in the center of Tbilisi on the 694th day of continuous protests dedicated their posters to the ongoing process in the Constitutional Court of Georgia, where the lawsuit of the "Georgian Dream" regarding the ban on opposition political forces is being considered.

Albert Frolov from the Chereksky District was killed in the SVO zone. Since the beginning of the special operation, at least 486 fighters from Kabardino-Balkaria have been officially recognized as killed.

Law enforcement officers in Chechnya killed one person suspected of involvement in sabotage in the Gudermes district, and another person was detained, said Ramzan Kadyrov at a meeting with law enforcement officials.

The Tbilisi City Court found Levan Zardiashvili and Saba Mindiaashvili guilty of obstructing the professional activities of Publika journalists. They were fined, and Zardiashvili was also sentenced to five years probation.

Entrepreneur from the village of Furdag in the Khyva district of Dagestan, Zeynudin Kaziev, in a video address to the head of Dagestan, reported that the "Roshcha" tourist base, which he built together with his family, may close at the request of the district prosecutor's office. Lands in the tourist zones of the republic are often classified as "gray zones," journalists noted.

The court canceled the fine of 20 thousand rubles imposed on Natalia Kuzmina, who was a participant in the recording of an appeal to Alexander Bastrykin regarding the situation with gasoline in Volgograd.

The group formed around Adam Kadyrov, while not considered an official power structure, is essentially an armed formation operating outside the framework of Russian legislation. While the "unit" can be seen as a pastime for the children of Chechen officials, it has the potential to become a personnel reserve for maintaining power in the hands of local elites.

Polish law enforcement detained Georgian citizen Mahmoud A, who is suspected of preparing the murder of artist Semyon Skrepetsky and illegal arms trafficking. He did not plead guilty, and the court, due to the risk of flight, arrested him for three months.

The court in the Volgograd region sentenced former orderly of the Kotovo psychiatric hospital Sergey Lebedev to nine years in a strict regime correctional colony for beating a 61-year-old incapacitated patient to death.

The court in Kabardino-Balkaria sentenced the head of the passenger cable car "Excursion Complex 'Pearl'" in Nalchik to a suspended sentence due to a cable break in which 13 tourists were injured in the summer of 2025.

The export from Armenia to the European Union increased by 1.5 times in the first nine months of 2026 compared to the same period last year, while exports to France and Germany fell, reported the Minister of Economy. Authorities are manipulating the figures, taking as a reference point a period of extremely low exports to Europe, users pointed out.