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Astrakhan band Anacondaz played concerts in Yerevan despite a petition calling for their cancellation. Meanwhile, the "Caucasian Knot" account on X remains blocked for over two days. The ban was triggered by a post about collecting signatures to cancel the band's Yerevan performances.

Eshou Kakaliya, a member of the Supreme Council of the opposition public organization "Aidgylara", received a gunshot wound and was hospitalized.

Five leading actors from Tbilisi's Vaso Abashidze Music and Drama Theatre resigned from the company after a banner supporting their colleague Andro Chichinadze, who was sentenced to two years in prison for participating in protests, was removed from the building's facade.

The cassation court rejected the appeal against the sentence of singer Eduard Sharlot, who apologized to the head of Chechnya.

Journalists arrested in Baku in the Meydan TV case accused the judges of bias, ignoring complaints of human rights violations against the defendants. Their lawyers challenged the court's composition, but their request was not considered.

Viktor Zhuravlev from the Nekhaevsky District was killed in a military operation in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,689 soldiers from the Volgograd Region have been officially recognized as killed.

The Ministry of Defense reported 10 drones shot down this morning in four regions of the Southern Federal District. In Volgograd, the attacks damaged the windows of apartment buildings.

Residents of the Dagestani village of Tsovkra-1 complained of cold in their homes, noting that their electricity was supplied through an "old and weak" transformer. A second transformer was undergoing repairs and would soon be connected, according to Dagenergo.

Last night, the military shot down 24 drones in the Krasnodar region, nine in the Rostov region, and one in the Volgograd region.

Participants in the bishops' meeting, in an appeal to the Armenian authorities, demanded an end to the persecution of Catholicos Garegin II and other clergy.

Drones and missiles were destroyed in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky and five districts of the Rostov region. According to preliminary authorities, there are no injuries.

At least 4,271 soldiers from the North Caucasus Federal District and 4,431 from the Southern Federal District have been officially recognized as killed in the military operation in Ukraine.

The defense of Kuban businessman Andrei Marchenko, a former business partner of Judge Viktor Momotov, was unable to appeal his arrest.

Rashid Magomedkhanov from the Tabasaran district was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, at least 1,814 Dagestani soldiers have been officially recognized as killed there.

The court sentenced Sochi resident Frederic Du Bois to 11 years in prison, finding him guilty of participating in a terrorist organization.

Marianna Stupina, former First Deputy Minister of Housing and Public Utilities of the Astrakhan Region, was convicted in 2012 after faking her own death and going into hiding for over 13 years. After her arrest, she was sent to a penal colony to serve her sentence.

A criminal case has been opened against a resident of North Ossetia who, on a social media site, called for violence against a public figure.

Vladimir Zemskov, Vadim Zelenin, Igor Vysotsky, and Boris Beniaminov from Nalchik were killed in military operations in Ukraine. Since February 2022, at least 378 combatants from Kabardino-Balkaria have been confirmed killed there.

A minor resident of Dagestan will stand trial on charges of three counts of public justification of terrorism.

The 19th memorial plaque installed by activists on the home of Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow was once again torn down by unknown individuals.