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13:37, 25 October 2025

23 foreigners have been deported from Kabardino-Balkaria.

During inspections of construction sites in Nalchik, Rosgvardia officers discovered 23 illegal migrants. They were expelled from the country and banned from entering Russia.

12:37, 25 October 2025

180 rescuers arrived in Anapa amid reports of a fuel oil spill.

A rescue team from the Rostov Region and Krasnodar Krai arrived in Anapa following reports of a drifting oil slick. Emergency Ministry personnel are restoring protective barriers along the coast. Effluents were detected in the village of Blagoveshchenskaya.

10:38, 25 October 2025

A soldier from the Astrakhan region was killed in the SVO zone.

Nikolai Buzin was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 636 soldiers from the Astrakhan region have been officially recognized as killed.

10:13, 25 October 2025

A Sochi resident died in a gas explosion.

A man died in a gas explosion in a high-rise building, and three people were hospitalized. Sochi City Hall evacuated residents and declared a state of emergency.

07:21, 25 October 2025

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

Military personnel repelled a drone attack on the Rostov region last night.

Nikolai Belikov during a protest outside the Georgian Parliament. Photo: Nike Belikov / Facebook*

03:07, 25 October 2025

Volgograd activists condemned Georgia's decision to deport Nikolai Belikov.

Georgia's decision to deport protester Nikolai Belikov to Russia is inhumane. His acquaintances believe the Volgograd opposition figure faces a real risk of persecution and imprisonment in his home country.

01:23, 25 October 2025

The names of five Dagestani soldiers killed in Ukraine have been released.

Abdul Akhmedkhanov, Roman Samedov, and three of their fellow countrymen from the Magaramkent district were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have officially acknowledged at least 1,610 fighters from Dagestan killed there.

00:57, 25 October 2025

Alexey Logvinenko has been taken into custody.

A court in Rostov-on-Don has remanded former Rostov-on-Don administration head Alexei Logvinenko into custody for two months on suspicion of abuse of office.

Police officers interact with marchers in Nalchik on May 21, 2025. Photo: https://www.facebook.com/groups/195437187330583/posts/2838639603010315/ belongs to Meta, a company banned in Russia.

23:58, 24 October 2025

The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has legalized the denial of permission for Circassian activists to march.

The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria upheld the decision of the Nalchik City Court, which deemed the republic's authorities' refusal to approve a mass march on Adyghe Remembrance Day along Nalchik's main street to be legal and justified.

23:32, 24 October 2025

The protest outside the Georgian parliament continued amid mass arrests.

For the 331st consecutive day, protesters in Tbilisi blocked traffic on Rustaveli Avenue near the parliament building. Throughout the day, police detained approximately 25 people for participating in the protests of the previous days.

Fighters from the new group sent from Grozny on October 24. Video still from Ramzan Kadyrov / Telegram

22:57, 24 October 2025

Kadyrov reported on the dispatch of a new group of fighters to the front.

The third group of volunteer soldiers since the beginning of October was sent from Grozny to the war zone in Ukraine after training at the Special Forces University in Gudermes.

22:28, 24 October 2025

Igbal Abilov's sentence has been upheld in Azerbaijan.

The Shirvan Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal against the sentence of ethnic researcher and editor-in-chief of the website "News of the Talysh National Academy" Igbal Abilov.

21:40, 24 October 2025

Three Rostov residents charged in connection with railway terrorist attacks

Investigators in Rostov-on-Don have charged an 18-year-old man and two 16-year-olds with arson on a railroad. The young men's actions are classified as terrorist attacks, and the elder is also charged with money laundering.

20:42, 24 October 2025

The Russian Ministry of Justice has designated an Azerbaijani journalist as a foreign agent.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has added journalist Ruslan Suleymanov*, who currently lives in Azerbaijan, to the register of foreign agents.

19:55, 24 October 2025

District officials are under investigation following complaints from residents of the village of Khorej.

Investigators have blamed officials in the Khivsky District administration for the delayed construction of a kindergarten in the village of Khorej, where residents complained to Dagestan's head, Sergei Melikov. A criminal case is being investigated under the article on negligence.

18:48, 24 October 2025

The father of a deceased soldier was fined for discrediting the army in Kuban.

The Prikubansky Court of Krasnodar fined Alexander Loiko for discrediting the army for his words in a telephone conversation.

17:58, 24 October 2025

Human rights activists have criticized Chechen authorities for their plan to harass girls without headscarves.

The Chechen authorities' decision to conduct educational talks with girls without head coverings and their parents should be interpreted as psychological violence.

16:58, 24 October 2025

26 Azerbaijani families have returned to villages in the Khojaly region.

Today, 85 members of Azerbaijani families who fled the Khojaly region during the Karabakh conflict returned to the villages of Dashbulag and Seyidbeyli. Authorities reported that more than 6,300 people have been provided with jobs in the districts that have come under Azerbaijani control.

15:59, 24 October 2025

Power has been restored to homes in Novoshakhtinsk.

Specialists have restored power to Novoshakhtinsk residents' homes, which was interrupted overnight by a drone attack.

15:00, 24 October 2025

Protests against land development in the village of Nogir have attracted the attention of security forces.

Police officers spoke with residents of the village of Nogir, who opposed the transfer of agricultural land for the construction of a satellite city of Vladikavkaz. However, officials failed to respond to the villagers' calls to prevent the development.

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