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Police in the Krasnodar village of Kalinino denied lawyer Alexei Ivanov a confidential meeting with his client. The lawyer filed a complaint with the Investigative Committee.

52 settlements in the Charodinsky district of Dagestan were left without transport links as a result of a major rockfall on the Gunib-Tsurib highway.

The Krasnodar Regional Court sentenced Ukrainian Emergency Situations Ministry Lieutenant Colonel Igor Lominoga to a lengthy prison term, finding him guilty of treason.

Azerbaijan has declared 11 days off in connection with the spring holiday of Nowruz and the end of the month of Ramadan. The war in the Middle East has impacted residents' weekend plans and the country's tourism sector.

Nikolai Ivanyuk was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 1,727 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

Rostov-on-Don resident Yuri Bogachev was fined for holding a picket with a poster reading, "We are waiting for the mobilized to return home."

Social media users noted that the figure of Patriarch Ilia II is perceived as a symbol of faith and national unity. Some users believe the patriarch's role is ambiguous, while others urged people to refrain from judgment and show respect for death.

An electrical substation caught fire in the village of Starotitarovskaya in the Temryuk District after drone debris fell. Authorities reported the fire had been extinguished and there were no injuries.

Since February 28, 470 Azerbaijani citizens, 323 Russian citizens, and 16 Georgian citizens have been evacuated from Iran to Azerbaijan. A total of 2,853 people have been allowed to cross the border between Iran and Azerbaijan.

Ninety-nine percent of public discussion participants opposed religious ceremonies on Krasnodar's Rozhdestvenskaya Embankment. However, the commission deemed the opinions of those opposed to the church's construction irrelevant and recommended that the mayor grant permission for religious services to be held on the embankment.

Abdul Musayev was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 1,868 fighters from Dagestan have been officially recognized as killed.

The Arbitration Court of the North Caucasus District upheld court decisions to recover more than 84.9 billion rubles from the owners of tankers that sank near Anapa for damage to the sea.

The Georgian Ministry of Justice's Penitentiary Service found no grounds for the third president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, to participate in the funeral of Patriarch Ilia II.

A court in the Kochubeevsky district of Stavropol has arrested two brothers accused of forcing a young man into slave labor for a year and a half. The victim's video statement was published by the "Russian Community" organization.

A court in Krasnodar Krai fined Alexander Stepanyuk for discrediting the military for his remark about being "deprived of his home."

A rehab employee in Kaspiysk received a relatively lenient sentence for the death of a patient, while his status as a "volunteer" allowed the facility's management to avoid liability. Rehabilitation centers are businesses, often run by former drug addicts, and violence against patients is widespread.

Mobile internet outages in Makhachkala are disrupting cashless payment systems, depriving shoppers of a convenient payment method and reducing businesses' revenue. Even market vendors are reporting losses.

Arbi Israilov from the Gudermes district was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have publicly released the names of at least 262 Chechen soldiers killed there.

Twenty human rights organizations from 13 countries, including Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, called on the Georgian Dream party to stop pressuring former ombudsman Ucha Nanuashvili, who was summoned to the State Security Service after meeting with an expert from the OSCE Moscow Mechanism.

Armenia is ready to provide humanitarian aid to Iran if needed, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated. No influx of refugees has been recorded at the Agarak border crossing.