A fight broke out at a bus stop in Elektrostal, Moscow Region, between 19-year-old Tajik national Imomali Turdiev and 18-year-old Ilya Polezhaev. Polezhaev was taken to the hospital, where he later died.

Security forces reported the death of a Kislovodsk resident during an arrest on suspicion of involvement in the plotting of the terrorist attack foiled in Stavropol in December 2025.

Ullubiy Khanmurzayev, the former head of Dagestan's Buinaksk district, who had previously gone to war against Ukraine as a "volunteer" after being accused of corruption, has been arrested on fraud charges.

According to the 2025 RIA Novosti rating, Chechnya, Ingushetia, and Dagestan demonstrated the lowest recorded crime rates among Russian regions. In Chechnya, the rate was 15.8 crimes per 10,000 residents, 37.4 in Ingushetia, and 41.6 in Dagestan.

A 16-year-old boy has been detained in Kabardino-Balkaria on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack against law enforcement officers.

Georgian citizen Irakli Rurua was convicted in absentia by a Russian court for participating in combat operations on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This was reported by the Investigative Committee.

The accounts and property of relatives of Mikhail Nadezhin, the former head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), have been seized as part of a bribery investigation.

Former senator from Karachay-Cherkessia, Rauf Arashukov, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, received an additional 10 years in prison. He was found guilty of bribing an employee of the Black Dolphin prison. The court also fined him 120 million rubles and confiscated the bribe—3 million.

Residents of multi-story buildings on several streets in Kaspiysk have been without central water supply for about a week. Local media also report problems with garbage collection.

According to Adygea Governor Murat Kumpilov, between 4,000 and 5,000 people remain without power in the republic due to downed power lines. Although the situation is gradually stabilizing, strong winds and repeated outages are slowing restoration efforts.