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13:56, 28 December 2025

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

Nikita Karnilov and Zhumabay Utegenov were killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 666 fighters from the Astrakhan region have been confirmed killed.

Garbage burning at a landfill in Novorossiysk. Photo from Alexander Gavrikov's Telegram channel https://t.me/Gavrikovzam/3328

12:56, 28 December 2025

Telegram users criticized the firefighting efforts at a landfill in Novorossiysk.

The fire at the Novorossiysk landfill is not shrinking despite efforts to extinguish it, the city's deputy mayor admitted. Telegram users deemed the authorities' efforts insufficient.

Photo: Southern Transport Prosecutor's Office https://t.me/prokutp/5834

11:57, 28 December 2025

A locomotive derailment in Rostov-on-Don has caused train delays.

Twenty-five passenger trains were delayed after a freight train's locomotive derailed in Rostov-on-Don. The prosecutor's office reported on its investigation into the incident.

Sergey Pleshakov. Photo from the Uryupinsk administration's Telegram channel https://t.me/urupino/24339

10:58, 28 December 2025

A contract soldier from Uryupinsk was killed in combat.

Sergei Pleshakov was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,603 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

Kabardian language textbook. Still from a video from the Instagram* public page "Patriot KBR" from September 8, 2022 https://www.instagram.com/p/CiPy0akKgbgyaz5uqjuvAcsO5WyuRnOa4iXG0w0/ (Meta, the company that owns Instagram, is banned in Russia).

09:58, 28 December 2025

Human rights activists have called on Kokov to disclose data on how schoolchildren are taught their native languages.

The Kabardino-Balkarian Ministry of Education refused to provide data on the number of schoolchildren of Kabardian and Balkar ethnicities who chose Russian as their native language. Students and their parents could have faced pressure to abandon the study of their national languages, human rights activists stated in a letter to the head of the republic.

08:59, 28 December 2025

Two regions of the Southern Federal District were hit by drone attacks.

The Ministry of Defense reported that four drones were shot down overnight in the Volgograd and Rostov regions.

Kakha Melikidze. Photo: "Georgia News" https://www.newsgeorgia.ge/na-obshhestvennom-veshhatele-gruzii-novoe-uvolnenie-oppozicionno-nastroennogo-sotrudnika/

07:59, 28 December 2025

Georgian TV channel employee fired after critical remarks

Kakha Melikidze, director of the pro-government Georgian Public Broadcaster, has been fired after making public statements criticizing the channel's editorial policy.

06:57, 28 December 2025

Drones were shot down in four districts of the Rostov region.

Last night, the military shot down drones in the Kasharsky, Bokovsky, Chertkovsky, and Sholokhov districts of the Rostov region.

05:57, 28 December 2025

A fighter from Dagestan was killed in Ukraine.

Murad Badirkhanov was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,751 soldiers from Dagestan have been officially recognized as killed.

04:55, 28 December 2025

A court in Nalchik sentenced a serviceman for leaving his unit without permission.

The Nalchik Garrison Military Court sentenced Ratmir Zakuev, who had been absent from his duty station for about a month, to five years in a maximum security penal colony.

03:56, 28 December 2025

A group of former internally displaced persons returned to the village of Vengli in Azerbaijan.

Ten families of former internally displaced persons have returned to the village of Vengli in the Agdere district and have been given keys to new apartments.

02:57, 28 December 2025

Logvinenko refuses to admit guilt in accepting a bribe

Former Rostov-on-Don mayor Alexei Logvinenko invoked Article 51 of the Russian Constitution and refused to testify against himself during interrogations.

01:58, 28 December 2025

Akhalaia accused security forces of pressuring

Former Georgian Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaia, arrested on charges of organizing violence at a protest, said he testified under pressure from security forces who threatened to arrest his wife.

00:59, 28 December 2025

21 drones were shot down over the Rostov and Volgograd regions.

On the evening of December 27, air defense forces shot down 15 drones over the Rostov region and six drones over the Volgograd region.

04:33, 27 December 2025

A nurse at a sanatorium in Nalchik appealed her conviction for infecting patients.

An appeal against the verdict was filed by a nurse at a private sanatorium in Nalchik, who was sentenced to four years in prison for infecting more than 70 people with hepatitis C and HIV.

03:35, 27 December 2025

Moldy Khabaev was convicted of assaulting a prison officer.

Mould Khabaev, convicted of the 1995 attack on Budyonnovsk and serving his sentence, was sentenced to six years in prison for attacking a prison employee.

02:36, 27 December 2025

The former head of the village of Elbrus was convicted of land fraud.

A court in Maykop found former Elbrus village head Uzeir Kurdanov and local resident Larisa Kadyrova guilty of fraud involving a plot of land in the Elbrus National Park and sentenced them to prison terms.

01:37, 27 December 2025

Elena Khoshtaria's arrest has been extended.

A Tbilisi court has extended the pretrial detention of opposition politician Elene Khoshtaria, who is accused of defacing Kakha Kaladze's election poster.

00:38, 27 December 2025

A fighter from Akhtubinsk was killed in a special operation zone.

Daniyar Kamendagaliev was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 664 soldiers from the Astrakhan region have been confirmed killed.

23:39, 26 December 2025

Activists reported 300 dead cormorants on the Sudzhuk Spit.

On December 26, the Telegram channel "Sudzhuk Lagoon #battleforproran" published photos taken on the coast of Novorossiysk. The footage shows dead cormorants. According to the source, the bodies of approximately 300 birds were found in the area between the Gesha Kozodoev monument and the Ministry of Emergency Situations base.

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