South Federal District

May 03, 2025 23:17

• Emergency regime declared in Novorossiysk after drone attack

  Authorities of the city of Novorossiysk have declared the state of emergency after a drone attack. According to updated information, five people were injured as a result of the attack.

May 02, 2025 16:58

• Kuban environmentalists doubt statements on harmlessness of Black Sea fish

  The pollution with the spilled fuel oil (mazut) affects all marine life, but it is impossible to objectively define how poisoned the fish caught in the Black Sea is due to the absence of independent laboratories.

May 02, 2025 16:37

• Threat of UMB attack announced in Novorossiysk

  Authorities of the Russian city of Novorossiysk have announced the danger of an attack by unmanned boats (UMBs) on the city. Local residents have been warned that sirens will be turned on.

May 01, 2025 14:29

• Sochi resident sentenced to imprisonment in case on high treason

  A resident of Sochi, who worked as a railway security guard, was found guilty of “real assistance to Ukraine” because of his communication with a Ukrainian acquaintance.

April 30, 2025 17:14

• Five Ukrainian citizens convicted in Rostov-on-Don as members of terrorist community

  The Southern District Military Court sentenced five residents of Melitopol to prison terms ranging from 11 to 14 years, finding them guilty of participating in a terrorist community.

April 30, 2025 14:12

• President Putin renames Volgograd airport as “Stalingrad”

  Andrei Bocharov, Governor of the Volgograd Region, informed Russian President Vladimir Putin that the military veteran community and participants of the special military operation asked to rename the Volgograd airport to “Stalingrad”. Vladimir Putin signed the appropriate decree on the same day.

April 29, 2025 16:03

• Krasnodar Territorial Court refuses to rehabilitate Valery Bailo

  The Court of Appeal has ruled to terminate the criminal case against Valery Bailo due to his death, although the son of the deceased Jehovah's Witness* insisted on his father’s rehabilitation.

April 23, 2025 23:50

• Rostov resident Elena Popova recognized as political prisoner

  Human rights defenders have announced Elena Popova, a resident of the Rostov Region, sentenced to 12 years for transferring money to journalist Arkady Babchenko*, to be a political prisoner.

April 22, 2025 19:45

• Defendants in two resonant cases in Rostov Region decide to go to SMO

  Three of the defendants in the case on the shootout between Chechen farmers in the Chernozubov farm yard have already left for the special military operation (SMO), and Anastasia Potorochina, a former psychiatrist of the Rostov tuberculosis hospital of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) wrote a letter asking for permission to conclude a military contract.

April 21, 2025 21:56

• Bailo's relatives state protraction of inquiry into cause of his death

  A month after the death of Valery Bailo, a Jehovah's Witness*, at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), his body is in the morgue; its examination is not over; and the advocates and relatives have received not a single official response. Problems in investigating deaths in custody have become systemic, human rights defenders have indicated.

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