North-Caucasian Federal District

May 06, 2026 00:00

• A fighter from Ingushetia was killed in Ukraine.

  Magomed Tutayev from Karabulak was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 193 fighters from Ingushetia have been officially recognized as killed.

May 05, 2026 22:33

• A Chechen native has been convicted of texting an ISIS member.

  A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced a 21-year-old native of Gudermes to a lengthy prison term, finding him a member of the Islamic State* terrorist organization based on a text message.

May 05, 2026 22:01

• A Dagestani soldier was killed in Ukraine.

  Aidyn Khaibatov from Derbent was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 1,917 fighters from Dagestan have been officially recognized as killed.

May 05, 2026 21:19

• The killer of an elderly Nalchik woman avoided prison.

  Rustam Nogmov, a former participant in the military operations in Ukraine and convicted of the murder of pensioner Nina Selezneva in Nalchik, has signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense and returned to the front.

May 05, 2026 20:37

• Alexei Safonov's 20-year sentence was upheld on appeal.

  After reconsidering the defense's appeal, the Supreme Court of Karachay-Cherkessia upheld the prison sentence of Alexei Safonov, former head of the Stavropol Krai traffic police department. He was sentenced in May 2025 to 20 years in a maximum-security penal colony for creating a criminal organization and accepting bribes.

May 05, 2026 18:31

• Rescuers in Karachay-Cherkessia are searching for missing tourists from Astrakhan.

  At least 15 rescuers are searching in Karachay-Cherkessia for two young women from Astrakhan who never returned from a mountain hiking trip. Their parents asked them to find them; contact with the hikers has been lost.

May 05, 2026 17:53

• A resident of Ingushetia is suspected of rehabilitating Nazism.

  A resident of the village of Dolakovo, whose social media comment attracted the attention of Center E operatives, is under investigation for “justifying the activities of Nazis.”

May 05, 2026 08:21

• Transport links to a mountain village in Dagestan have been restored.

  Workers cleared the road to the village of Zhazhada in the Tlyaratinsky District, which had been blocked by a rockfall. There are no more blockaded settlements in Dagestan.

May 05, 2026 06:25

• The arrest of the former deputy head of Pyatigorsk has been extended.

  The court remanded former deputy head of Pyatigorsk Svetlana Marchenko, accused of abuse of office, in custody for two months.

May 05, 2026 02:29

• Akhmed Balkarov's mother learned of his removal from the penal colony.

  Akhmed Balkarov, a native of Kabardino-Balkaria, who was planned by prison administration in the Penza region to be sent to a psychiatric hospital more than 1,000 kilometers away, has been "dropped out," the facility's administration told his mother.

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