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17:24, 30 January 2026

A member of an influential family left Chechnya due to a death threat.

Human rights activists helped a young man from an influential Chechen family avoid reprisals from his relatives by organizing his evacuation from the republic.

16:25, 30 January 2026

Authorities have not yet begun pumping fuel oil from the parts of the tankers that sank near Anapa.

Work is underway to install cofferdam piles in the Kerch Strait, while the protective structures themselves have already been installed over the sunken parts of fuel oil tankers. Pumping will begin only after the piles are installed, Rosmorrechflot reported.

15:25, 30 January 2026

Two soldiers from the Astrakhan region were killed in a military operation.

Dmitry Dryanin and Pavel Nikeshin were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 685 soldiers from the Astrakhan region have been officially recognized as killed.

14:26, 30 January 2026

The defense cited the deterioration of Narek Samsonyan's condition as a consequence of his imprisonment.

Narek Samsonyan, co-author of the "Imnemnimi" podcast, was brought to the Yerevan court hearing in a wheelchair. His defense and the opposition blamed his condition on his imprisonment and a 15-day hunger strike.

13:25, 30 January 2026

Authorities have officially acknowledged that more than 8,550 fighters from southern Russia were killed in the military operation.

At least 4,213 fighters from the North Caucasus Federal District and 4,344 from the Southern Federal District have been acknowledged by authorities and security forces as killed during the military operation in Ukraine.

12:24, 30 January 2026

The Prosecutor General's Office of Kazakhstan has ordered the extradition of Mansur Movlayev to Russia.

The Kazakh Prosecutor General's Office ordered the extradition of Chechen native Mansur Movlaev, stating that his defense has the right to appeal the decision. The court has not yet heard the appeal against the denial of refugee status for Movlaev, his lawyers stated.

11:29, 30 January 2026

A Volgograd resident was sentenced to a long prison term in a treason case.

The court sentenced 52-year-old Volgograd resident Pavel Palekhov to 18 years in prison, alleging espionage. His previous conviction for assaulting a law enforcement officer was also included in the sentence. According to traffic police, he attempted to cause an accident to escape after being detained.

10:28, 30 January 2026

The family of a disabled teenager from Krasnodar has dropped their appeal against his exclusion from the national team for a "Nazi gesture."

The family of a disabled teenager from Krasnodar received notice that he had been excluded from the national sledge hockey team, despite an expert assessment ruling out any similarity between the athlete's gesture during a match and a Nazi salute. The teenager's family has decided not to appeal the decision.

Murat Khokonov. Screenshot from the Nalchik newspaper.

09:29, 30 January 2026

Khokonov considered the reversal of the court's decision to reinstate him to work unlawful.

The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria overturned the Nalchik City Court's decision to reinstate Professor Murat Khokonov as department head at KBSU. This decision contradicts three previous court rulings, Khokonov stated, adding that he intends to seek justice.

08:31, 30 January 2026

A soldier in Nalchik received a prison sentence for evading military service.

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

07:31, 30 January 2026

Two fighters from Dagestan were killed in Ukraine.

Ruslan Burzhumov and Elman Abdulkadirov from the Tabasaran district were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 1,787 fighters from Dagestan have been officially recognized as killed.

06:34, 30 January 2026

Villagers in Dagestan complained about a lack of water at a kindergarten.

Residents of the village of Tsunta in the Tsuntinsky District have appealed to the head of Dagestan and law enforcement agencies for help in restoring water supply to the Lastochka kindergarten.

Still: Members of 26 Azerbaijani families have returned to the village of Mamedbeyli in the Zangilan district. Photo:
1news.az / https://1news.az/news/20260129080321303-Ocherednaya-gruppa-pereselentsev-pribila-v-selo-Mamedbeili-FOTO-OBNOVLENO

05:36, 30 January 2026

26 Azerbaijani families have returned to the village of Mammadbeyli.

Members of 26 Azerbaijani families who fled the village during the Karabakh conflict have returned to the village of Mamedbeyli in the Zangilan district. They have been given keys to new homes.

04:38, 30 January 2026

Two South Ossetian soldiers were killed in Ukraine.

The funerals of Anatoly Dzhioyev and Dmitry Kozayev, killed in combat, were held in South Ossetia. At least 41 South Ossetian fighters have been killed there since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine.

A protester in Tbilisi holds a Georgian flag in front of a police cordon, December 2024. Photo by "Caucasian Knot" correspondent Aziz Karimov.

03:45, 30 January 2026

24 OSCE countries have invoked the Moscow Mechanism in connection with human rights violations in Georgia.

The United Kingdom and 23 other OSCE countries have initiated the creation of an expert mission in response to the deteriorating human rights situation in Georgia. The mission's representatives are to assess human rights violations in the country from 2024 onward.

02:47, 30 January 2026

Human rights activists assessed the risk of Aina Mankieva's forced return to Ingushetia.

For Aina Mankieva, a native of Ingushetia who fled domestic violence, both her father, who promised to bring her home "at any cost," and law enforcement officers pose a threat. Only publicity helped her release from police custody.

01:47, 30 January 2026

Nine soldiers from the Rostov region were killed in Ukraine.

Vladimir Zaplatnikov, Oleg Kukareka, and seven of their fellow countrymen were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have publicly named at least 840 combatants from the Rostov region killed there.

00:48, 30 January 2026

Two residents of Kuban have been charged with sabotage and treason.

The Krasnodar Regional Court will hear the case of two residents of the Anapa district accused of four arson attacks on the railway.

23:48, 29 January 2026

The Cassation Court upheld the acquittal of a farmer from Kabardino-Balkaria.

The Fifth Cassation Court in Pyatigorsk upheld the acquittal of Tamara Erzhibova, head of the agricultural enterprise "Majesty," who was accused of fraud after delivering corn to the Prokhladny grain receiving facility.

23:10, 29 January 2026

The court ordered the arrest of Akhmed Bilalov in absentia.

Moscow's Tverskoy Court has arrested Akhmed Bilalov, former vice president of the Russian Olympic Committee and former head of North Caucasus Resorts, who lives in the United States, in absentia on charges of attempted embezzlement of $200 million from Sberbank. The court ordered him to be held in pretrial detention for two months from the date of his arrest or extradition.

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