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54-year-old Roman Kilyachkov was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,638 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

Today, members of 20 Azerbaijani families who fled the village during the Karabakh conflict returned to the village of Mamedbeyli in the Zangilan region.

The Ministry of Defense reported the downing of five drones in Kuban, the only region in southern Russia where a drone attack was recorded last night.

Vladimir Zaitsev from the Novoanninsky District was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,637 soldiers from the Volgograd Region have been officially recognized as killed.

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled the liquidation of the "Council of Teips of the Ingush People" in 2020, as well as the fine imposed on its chairman, Murat Daskiev, in 2019, illegal.

In Makhachkala, several districts have been without water for over a day due to a pipeline rupture. The authorities' promised restoration deadlines have long passed, but local residents say there is still no water. They wonder if such accidents are too common in Dagestan.

More than a thousand citizens have signed a statement in defense of the Armenian Apostolic Church, initiated by a group of lawyers and public figures. They called the authorities' actions against the church unconstitutional.

Cossacks from the Rostov and Volgograd regions, as well as the Krasnodar Territory, attended memorial services for the victims of the Decossackization and honored their memory. A requiem concert was held in Volgograd for the victims of Cossack repression.

Moscow activists have restored the memorial plaque on Anna Politkovskaya's house for the seventh time, also installing a portrait of the murdered journalist on the wall.

During the week of January 19–25, 2026, two casualties were recorded in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts of Russia: one person was killed and one was wounded. These are the results of the "Caucasian Knot" calculations based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Homes in the village of Zaplavnoye in the Leninsky District of the Volgograd Region have been without heat and running water for four days. Villagers have called on authorities to involve the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the military in resolving the problem.

A Krasnodar resident held a solo picket outside the Western District administration building, demanding the resignation of the city's mayor and the reversal of the decision to build a church on the embankment in the Yubileiny microdistrict.

For the 425th day in a row, supporters of Georgia's European integration gathered outside the parliament building on Rustaveli Avenue, demanding the release of all those arrested for participating in the demonstrations.

Oleg Balyasnikov and Temirlan Shungarov from Cherkessk were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, authorities and security forces have acknowledged at least 180 fighters from Karachay-Cherkessia as killed.

Chechen political scientist Ruslan Kutayev* and human rights activist Oleg Orlov*, who worked in Chechnya during the military conflict, became participants in a platform for dialogue with Russian democratic forces at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Tamara Mearakishvili recorded a video message in which she reported new pressure measures, this time against her parents. She said an ambulance arrived unexpectedly: first, they examined her mother, then took her father straight from the street to the hospital.

The Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala sentenced the former head of the Rosimushchestvo territorial office in Dagestan to two months' detention. Investigators estimated the damage caused by the official's actions at 16.5 million rubles.

The Tbilisi City Court has ordered bail for Strategy Agmashenebeli party leader Giorgi Vashadze as a preventive measure in the case of sabotage and assisting a foreign state in hostile activities.

Eleven days after reports of a traffic accident involving Adam Kadyrov in Grozny, the third son of the Chechen leader maintains a relatively low profile on social media, but has not posted any new images of himself.

The head of a department within the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of Kabardino-Balkaria is suspected of falsifying documents for the acceptance of a multi-story residential building that was constructed with violations.