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Following changes to the housing program, refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh complained about rising housing and rental prices in Armenia's regions. Analysts noted that the housing program, with its new provisions, still fails to address the needs of small families of internally displaced persons.

The Church and its flock must remain united and avoid schism, according to the Easter message of the Georgian Orthodox Church. It was delivered against the backdrop of the upcoming election of the Catholicos of Georgia following the death of Ilia II.

The road to the village of Guimi in the Laksky District is blocked by landslides, preventing residents from even getting groceries. Villagers have complained of a lack of assistance. Social media users have called on rescuers and authorities to provide assistance.

In the village of Urkarakh in the Dakhadaevsky District, 11 homes were damaged, residents were evacuated, and another 70 homes are at risk of collapse. Residents in the village of Kubachi, where three homes were caught in the landslide, were also evacuated.

In Dagestan, the former director of the company that maintained the Gedzhukh Dam, whose rupture led to flooding of villages in the Derbent district and deaths, has been detained.

A thousand bags of oil-contaminated soil have been collected from the beach in Vityazevo, clearing approximately half of the contaminated area. Volunteers received over three hundred contaminated birds, and many were unable to be helped in time.

On April 12, the Azerbaijani embassy in Iran resumed operations with a limited staff, a month after the evacuation of its diplomats. Baku believes that the embassy's rapid resumption of operations after the ceasefire underscores the importance Azerbaijan places on relations with Iran.

After law enforcement interviewed witnesses in the shootout in the village of Nizhny Dzhengutai, an elderly man died, and a young man who was present at the scene committed suicide. Investigators are conducting an investigation.

Activists at a rally in Yerevan demanded the release of 18-year-old David Minasyan, who was arrested following an incident at a church involving the prime minister, or that a non-custodial measure be chosen for the young man.

A minimal rise in water level in the new reservoir, which formed due to a landslide, was recorded over the past 24 hours. There is no threat to villages, the Gergebil District administration stated.

The Gejukha Reservoir was poorly maintained, and the operating company failed to take action when the dam was in danger of bursting, according to investigators. An engineer from the company responsible for the facility's safety, Dziv-2 LLC, has been arrested for two months.

Dmitry Skorik was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,747 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

Another person injured in the explosion at a fireworks warehouse in Vladikavkaz has sought medical attention and been hospitalized. Of the 16 injured, 11 remain hospitalized.

Over the past 24 hours, the number of houses still flooded in Dagestan has decreased from 762 to 516. 523 people remain in temporary accommodation centers.

In the Sredneakhtubinsky District, awards were presented to the families of soldiers killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,746 soldiers from the Volgograd Region have been officially recognized as killed in it.

The Sovetsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don fined Sergei Korovayny 30,000 rubles for using a negative emoji in response to a video of military equipment posted in a private chat room. The court deemed it defamatory of the army.

Officers from the Kabardino-Balkarian Ministry of Internal Affairs' Center for Combating Extremism reported the arrest of a 31-year-old local resident in connection with a case involving the financing of an extremist organization.

Abdulmutelim Ramazanov and Shikh Mekhtiyev from the Tabasaran district were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have acknowledged at least 1,893 combatants from Dagestan killed there.

Former Krasnodar Regional Court judge Yuri Zakharchevsky, convicted of hitting a pedestrian, never paid compensation for his death because he signed a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense in 2024, left for the SVO zone, and went intocommunication.

The court extended the arrest of former Novocherkassk mayor Yuri Lysenko, who is suspected of accepting a bribe from a developer, until May 13.