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Passengers on at least two trains—from Vladikavkaz and Rostov-on-Don to Adler—complained of hours-long waits "somewhere in the fields." They said food was also not provided, and passengers themselves were running low on water and food. Federal Passenger Company reported that several trains to Sochi would be delayed today.

Villages in the mountainous regions of Dagestan are without power due to snowfall, and repair crews are unable to reach them. In the Tlyaratinsky District, snowdrifts have cut off transportation to several villages, and vehicles are blocked on the highway in the Tsuntinsky District.

Contract soldier Said-Magomed Magomadov was arrested on charges of extortion involving violence committed during his military service. He was unsuccessful in challenging his pretrial detention.

Azerbaijani Facebook* users emphasized that security forces' violence against detained nightclub patrons in Baku is unacceptable and violates the law and human rights. A significant number of users in the discussion also used hate speech against members of the LGBT** community.

The Investigative Committee reported that back in January, a case was opened against unidentified Anapa city officials for the cleanup of a fuel oil spill. Activists speculated that this could be the reason for the lack of candidates for the mayor's post.

Hospital and community center employees in Ingushetia reported going without pay before the New Year, despite government promises to pay them before the holidays, as required by the Labor Code.

Roman Chaplygin was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 891 soldiers from the Stavropol Krai have been officially recognized as killed.

Tens of thousands of people remain without power in Adygea and the Krasnodar Krai. In Kuban, authorities blame the utility company, Akton, for the delayed repairs.

Contract soldier Artur Raisov and mobilized soldier Timur Kuspanov were killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 669 soldiers from the Astrakhan region have been confirmed killed.

Aircraft departures and arrivals have been postponed in Sochi, Gelendzhik, and Krasnodar.

According to official reports, no one was injured.

Kuban resident Fyodor Valko intends to appeal the verdict against the security forces who tortured him. The apology sent to him by the Ministry of Internal Affairs was a forced formality; before the verdict, the agency had described the convicted officers as exemplary.

The investigation has ordered a linguistic examination in the case of religious figure Akhmad Batlukhsky, accused of slandering the Muftiate of Dagestan. Three previous examinations found no defamation in Batlukhsky's statements.

Adil Daudov from the Babayurt district was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have publicly named at least 1,765 Dagestani servicemen killed there.

Power has been restored in the mountainous areas of Sochi, and heating has been restored in the Belorechensky District, according to Kuban authorities. More than 30,000 people remain without power in neighboring Adygea.

A drone strike in Sochi damaged an apartment building. Residents were not injured, authorities reported.

The charges against Andzor Khalilov, a developer from Kabardino-Balkaria who was arrested after being deported to Russia from the UAE, are based on the testimony of a witness named Kardanov, whom the defendant himself claims is fictitious. Another defendant in the case, accused of raising money for militants, also denies the charges.

Before the New Year, the iron gates and fence on a plot of land in the Adler district of Sochi, farmed by Cossack Vladimir Galka for over 30 years, were torn down by order of the district administration. This was the continuation of a long-running conflict over land that the Cossack community had received in the early 1990s but had never been able to formalize.

After the storm, protective nets were scattered along the shore in Anapa and the Temryuk district. In some places, they were covered with sand, while in others, they were at the water's edge and could be washed out to sea, bloggers reported. Volunteers from the "Nets, Sieve, Shovel" headquarters spent today cleaning up the nets on the Bugayskaya Spit.

The protest in Tbilisi, where participants are demanding new parliamentary elections and the release of political prisoners, entered its 400th day. The protesters appealed to the Prosecutor General's Office to change the pretrial detention of 61-year-old Zurab Menteshashvili, who was remanded in custody for repeatedly blocking a road.