South Federal District

July 17, 2026 23:27

• The head of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry announced the resumption of flights from Baku to Grozny.

  Azerbaijan is ready to resume direct air communication with Russian cities, interrupted after the crash of the Baku - Grozny flight in December 2024. These cities include, in addition to Grozny, Makhachkala, Vladikavkaz, Mineralnye Vody, Sochi, and Volgograd.

July 17, 2026 21:54

• The appeal to Bastrykin from the Volgograd gas station resulted in detentions and arrests.

  Police detained five people at a gas station in Volgograd who were recording a video message to the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, about the situation with gasoline. Lawyer Alexey Sevastyanov was sentenced to five days in jail today.

July 17, 2026 18:23

• A soldier from Adygea was killed in the special military operation zone.

  Murad Khut was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 141 fighters from Adygea have been officially recognized as killed.

July 17, 2026 16:23

• Against the backdrop of rising gasoline prices, the number of operating gas stations in Krasnodar has decreased.

  This morning in Krasnodar, AI-95 was available at only 40 gas stations, while at 63 stations at least one type of fuel is available. Three days earlier, authorities reported 70 open gas stations. The stations where the price per liter is 189 rubles are empty.

July 17, 2026 13:24

• 89 beaches of Anapa have received permission to open after the oil spill.

  12 beaches of Anapa are undergoing examination to obtain permission to open after the oil spill in the Black Sea.

July 17, 2026 11:23

• Four regions in southern Russia have crossed the 100 rubles per liter mark for AI-95.

  Rosstat reported that as of July 13, the average price of AI-95 in Kalmykia was over 111 rubles per liter, while in Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, and Chechnya, the price ranged from 100 to 105 rubles per liter. Prices at private gas stations in Chechnya have risen to 190 rubles, readers of "Caucasian Knot" noted.

July 17, 2026 06:24

• The drone was shot down over the Rostov region.

  In the Aksai district, drone debris fell into a field, igniting the wheat.

July 17, 2026 04:26

• The sentence of the financial director of the Rostov plant Zakharcov has been upheld.

  The Rostov Regional Court found no grounds to change the sentence of the former financial director of the "Tenth Bearing Plant" Felix Zakharcov, who was convicted of embezzlement of property while fulfilling a state defense order.

July 17, 2026 03:27

• A serviceman in Nalchik has been sentenced to a long term for absences from service.

  The Nalchik garrison military court sentenced serviceman Timur Nasypliyev to 5.5 years in a penal colony for two absences from service during mobilization.

July 16, 2026 18:42

• The extradited native of Karachay-Cherkessia has been sentenced to 18 years in a colony.

  The court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Ruslan Botashev, a native of Karachay-Cherkessia, to 18 years in a strict regime colony, finding him guilty of participating in the activities of a terrorist organization in Syria and training in a militants' camp.

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