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2026-02-05 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Two people were killed in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts
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[KavkazUzel] During the week of January 26 to February 1, 2026, two casualties were recorded in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts of Russia. These are the results of the "Caucasian Knot" calculations based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

As the Caucasian Knot reported , during the week of January 19-25, one person was killed in armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts.

SHOOTOUT IN DAGESTAN
On January 28, law enforcement sources reported a shootout on the outskirts of the village of Ullubiyaul in the Karabudakhkent district, in which two unidentified individuals were  killed  after allegedly opening fire on law enforcement officers during an identity check. Some sources reported that weapons and ammunition were seized from the attackers' car. According to the FSB, the shootout  disrupted  a terrorist attack planned by an unnamed international terrorist organization banned in Russia. The targets of the victims were a "religious cult site" and a section of the Makhachkala-Derbent railway line.

ARRESTS AND TRIALS FOR TERRORISM-RELATED OFFENSES
On January 26, the Krasnodar Regional Court sentenced Arsanali Mutukov to 12 years in prison for sabotaging transport infrastructure facilities. Mutukov fully admitted his guilt. In March and June 2024, he burned relay cabinets on railway tracks in Kuban.

On January 27, at a Moscow court hearing, the prosecution requested a five-year, eleven-month prison sentence for Yeysk stand-up comedian Artemy Ostanin, along with a 300,000-ruble fine. The maximum sentence under the extremism charge is six years in prison.

A Pyatigorsk resident has been charged with two counts of aiding terrorism and one count of financing terrorist activity. According to investigators, from 2016 to 2018, she transferred funds to members of an international terrorist organization banned in Russia. Law enforcement officials claim her transfers were intended to assist militants. 

On January 29, Ingushetia residents Akhmed Sakalov and Mukhammad Tumgoev were sentenced to 13 and 12 years in prison, respectively, on charges of preparing sabotage and illegal trafficking of explosive devices. 

The Naursky District Court of Chechnya has registered an administrative case against local resident Isa Magamadov under the law on searching for "extremist materials." This is the second known case in Russia.

The criminal case against two residents of the Anapa district has been transferred to the Krasnodar Regional Court. They are accused of sabotage, treason, and money laundering. The charges carry sentences of up to twenty years in prison, and in some cases, life imprisonment. According to investigators, they set fire to certain "transport infrastructure facilities" between railway stations. One of the defendants is 24 years old, the other is 26. 

On January 30, a court sentenced 52-year-old Volgograd resident Pavel Palekhov to 18 years in prison, charging him with espionage. His previous conviction for assaulting a law enforcement officer was included in the sentence. According to traffic police, he attempted to cause an accident to escape after being detained.

Two residents of Dagestan are suspected of involvement in an organization that studied and distributed extremist materials. According to investigators, from October 2019 to the present, the two local residents actively "studied and distributed ideological materials of this extremist organization."

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