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The government commission and Anapa authorities have not announced the start of filling the remaining beaches with imported sand, despite the announced deadline of June 1. The lack of progress casts doubt on the prospects for reopening Anapa's sandy beaches.

Two people were killed in an explosion at a fireworks warehouse in Vladikavkaz. Among the 14 injured in the explosion were two children, one of whom was one year old.

A powerful explosion occurred at a fireworks warehouse in Vladikavkaz, injuring 14 people, including residents of neighboring buildings whose windows were blown out by the blast wave. Rescuers are extinguishing the blaze, which covers an area of ​​800 square meters.

Residents of the village of Butush in the Botlikh District are fortifying the banks of the Aksayka River on their own amidst forecasted downpours, and residents of other villages are assisting them. During the first wave of flooding, 100 homes and farms, as well as dozens of hectares of land, were inundated in the village.

An activist held a picket calling on Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' to prevent the construction of a church on Rozhdestvenskaya Embankment in Krasnodar.

Those responsible for the beating of a three-year-old girl who died in Abkhazia must be made an example of, social media commenters stated. They believe child protection authorities are partly to blame for the child's death.

Security forces reported the arrest of three individuals in the Astrakhan and Moscow regions. Two of them have been charged in connection with Basayev's militants' raid into Dagestan, and the third has been charged with participating in an attack on Pskov paratroopers in Chechnya.

A Novosibirsk resident appealed to the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) about threats her family has received since she returned her youngest daughter from Chechnya, who had been taken away by her ex-husband. An acquaintance who was present when the girl was returned has been arrested for the kidnapping, she said.

A drone attack in the Volgograd region killed one person and damaged 13 private homes. According to the Ministry of Defense, 57 drones were shot down in the region overnight.

The authors of the appeal to businesses and authorities asked for specialized equipment and pumps to be sent to the Karaman-2 microdistrict to pump out the water flooding the streets. According to them, only one pump truck has visited the village since the flooding.

Arsen Giriskhanov from the Kazbekovsky district was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have acknowledged at least 1,891 combatants from Dagestan killed there.

Seven cultural institutions were partially damaged in the Kulinsky district of Dagestan after a snowfall, and three livestock farms remain without transport links.

Investigators have opened a criminal case against singer and comedian Semyon Slepakov* from Stavropol Krai for evading his duties as a foreign agent. Investigators intend to place him on the international wanted list.

Residents of Sunzha, Ingushetia, are concerned about the lack of riverbank protection work amid heavy rainfall in the region. Residents fear a repeat of the situation in Dagestan.

A court in Nalchik sentenced Andrei Omelchenko to one year in prison, finding him guilty of evading military service during mobilization.

The Cherkessk City Court has arrested Dmitry Bugayev, former Minister of Property and Land Relations of Karachay-Cherkessia. Investigators accuse him of abuse of office, resulting in 16.7 million rubles in losses to the regional budget.

A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Daniil Panov to a long prison term, finding him guilty of two terrorist attacks.

A court in Krasnodar has ruled the actions of Krasnodar Krai Ministry of Education officials who ignored a violation of parents' rights to freedom of speech and opinion at Sochi's Kindergarten No. 121 illegal.

Security forces left the Novaya Gazeta newspaper's Moscow office only that night, allowing its staff to go home. Documents and equipment were confiscated from the office.

A Moscow court has begun a retrial of a Chechen native accused of causing grievous bodily harm. The defense intends to prove that the victim used ethnic insults.