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A court in Volzhsky sentenced local activist Varvara Luch to five days in jail for allegedly promoting extremist symbols. Luch attracted the attention of law enforcement officials for her attempts to secure approval for a rally against the Telegram ban.

Judge Patimat Makhatilova, who legalized a house in Makhachkala that partially collapsed during the flood, has resigned.

Russian Emergency Situations Minister Alexander Kurenkov announced an increase in the state of emergency in Dagestan and Chechnya due to flooding.

Hundreds of volunteers came to the aid of residents of the village of Mamedkala in the Derbent district after the flooding. Social media users expressed gratitude to those who came from other villages in Dagestan and neighboring republics. The authorities' efforts are insufficient, and residents are asking for the water to be pumped out and their homes dried out as quickly as possible.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has placed Karina Iminova and Said-Khamzat Baysarov on the wanted list, suspected of murdering Chechen woman Aishat Baimuradova. Iminova is also wanted as a missing person.

More than 550 million rubles were donated to the Nadezhda charity foundation to help victims of the floods in Dagestan.

Searches are underway at the Novaya Gazeta newspaper's Moscow office, and lawyers are not allowed into the building. One of the men was carried out of the building on a stretcher and into an ambulance. Investigators have announced a criminal case for the illegal use, transfer, collection, and storage of personal data.

In 2015, Pavel Gubarev was kidnapped by Chechen fighters after reports surfaced online that he had alleged Ramzan Kadyrov's involvement in the Charlie Hebdo attack. The former "people's governor" of Donbas stated this in an interview shortly before the hearing of the military defamation case opened following Apti Alaudinov's statement.

In Krymsk, three people were injured when a drone crashed onto an oil depot; the fire was extinguished.

International human rights organizations have criticized the decision of the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan, which upheld the sentences in the Abzas Media case against journalists, and called for the journalists' release.

The Supreme Court declared the Memorial* movement an extremist organization and banned its activities in Russia. The lawyer was not allowed into the hearing.

The flower-laying ceremony at the memorial to those killed on April 9th ​​was accompanied by whistles and chants from protesters, and members of the Georgian leadership were surrounded by hundreds of police officers. One person was detained. Protesters are not interfering with the flower-laying ceremony by representatives of other countries and ordinary citizens.

Rostov Region resident Vitaly Kucherov was sentenced to 12 years in prison. The court found him guilty of attempting to join a Ukrainian armed group.

In Azerbaijan, a criminal case has been opened against the minor son of the imprisoned leader of the Muslim Unity movement, Taleh Bagirzade. He is accused of beating a classmate, but the teenager's mother claimed her son was provoked.

Vyacheslav Matsakov from the Yashkulsky district was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 222 soldiers from Kalmykia have been confirmed killed.

A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Stavropol native Alexander Pomazanov to a lengthy prison term after he swore allegiance to the Islamic State* in prison.

Property worth over 330 million rubles, registered to former Kuban Vice Governor Anna Minkova and her relatives, has been transferred to the state.

The homes of approximately 1,400 people in villages in the Khasavyurt district are uninhabitable after the flooding, and the water also destroyed their livestock and farms. Villages damaged in the first days of the flooding are receiving large amounts of humanitarian aid, but UFC champion Khamzat Chimaev has added seven more trucks.

UAV debris fatally injured a resident of the village of Sauk-Dere in the Krymsk district of Krasnodar Krai.

The condition of Muslim prisoners on a hunger strike in the Taganrog pretrial detention center is rapidly deteriorating; some have even mutilated themselves to draw attention to the problems. The prison administration is failing to address the violations, and the Federal Penitentiary Service and the prosecutor's office are responding to complaints with formal replies.