Rostov Region

February 17, 2026 02:44

• An appeals court has refused to release the head of a district in the Rostov region from custody.

  Valery Gornich, head of the Proletarsky District of the Rostov Region, suspected of abuse of power, filed a complaint against the pretrial detention measure, but the appellate court upheld his arrest.

February 16, 2026 23:23

• Abkhaz lawyer Irakli Bzhinava has been arrested in Rostov-on-Don.

  The Leninsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don sentenced Irakli Bzhinava to two months in jail for making anti-Russian statements and attempting to incite ethnic hatred online.

February 16, 2026 12:57

• Relatives of a Novoshakhtinsk resident have secured an investigation into his death at the police station.

  Two months later, investigators finally opened a criminal case following the death of Alexei Shatov, a detainee, at a police station in the Rostov region. His relatives were informed of his death with the words "it just happened."

February 16, 2026 05:50

• Bastrykin is concerned about delays in resettling residents of a dilapidated building in Novocherkassk.

  The head of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, has ordered a criminal investigation into delays in relocating residents of a building on Yunosti Street in Novocherkassk. The building was declared unsafe in 2024, and recently, its facade collapsed.

February 15, 2026 15:43

• Authorities have announced the resettlement of residents of a dilapidated building in Rostov-on-Don due to the threat of collapse.

  Experts have deemed the condition of an apartment building on Kozlova Street in Rostov-on-Don, which was declared unsafe back in 2020, critical. District officials have initiated the resettlement of residents.

February 15, 2026 04:55

• A resident of the Rostov region is suspected of transferring money to an extremist organization.

  A resident of the Rostov region has become a defendant in a criminal case on financing extremist activity; she is under house arrest.

February 15, 2026 03:56

• The verdict against the head of Rostovvodokanal has been appealed.

  An appeal has been filed against the sentence of former Rostovvodokanal CEO Evgeny Yurkin, who was convicted of disclosing state secrets.

February 12, 2026 11:55

• A Rostov Region resident has been convicted in connection with a terrorist attack on a railway.

  Nikolai Golubov was sentenced to 11 years in prison.

February 12, 2026 03:08

• Eleven soldiers from the Rostov region were killed in Ukraine.

  Petr Galushka, David Avtushenko, Rodion Dubolazov, and eight other fellow countrymen from Novoshakhtinsk were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have publicly named at least 855 soldiers killed there.

February 11, 2026 09:11

• 84 drones were destroyed in five regions of southern Russia.

  Last night, the military shot down drones in the Volgograd, Rostov, and Astrakhan regions, as well as in Kalmykia and North Ossetia. There were no injuries, but houses and buildings were damaged, authorities reported.

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