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Fourteen defendants in the case of large-scale theft from the Pension Fund, including the brother of the head of Ingushetia, have been transferred to the Cherkessk pretrial detention center following complaints from those arrested about conditions in the Armavir detention center.

Today, Azerbaijan dispatched 200 tons of food, medicine, and medical supplies to Iran. This shipment marks Azerbaijan's third humanitarian aid shipment since the outbreak of hostilities in the neighboring country.

In Dagestan, more than a thousand residential buildings and 1,100 household plots remain flooded as a result of the flood.

An airstrike in Taganrog killed one person and seriously injured four others. A commercial vessel was damaged by a drone strike in the Sea of ​​Azov.

Shamil Artsuyev's family has been trying to find out his fate for over three months since his arrest at the Russian-Georgian border in November 2025. Several people have encountered Artsuyev in various detention centers, but security forces refuse to provide his family with any information about him.

As a result of an avalanche in the Tlyaratinsky district, transport links with the villages of Gvedysh and Gendukh were disrupted.

Alexey Eltontsev from the Kamyshinsky District was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,739 soldiers from the Volgograd Region have been officially recognized as killed.

The criminal case against Vladislav Ovcharenko, who was long involved in the schemes of former Krasnodar Regional Court Chairman Alexander Chernov to acquire valuable assets, has been referred to court. Ovcharenko has been charged with fraud.

A contract soldier was killed and another was injured in an explosion at a training ground in the Armavir region.

The public organization "Era Vodoley" (Age of Aquarius), led by Marina Melikhova, planned to hold an interfaith conference in Krasnodar. Over a hundred people from across Russia had applied to participate, but security forces disrupted the event, expelling everyone who had arrived.

In Anapa, amid government announcements about the imminent reopening of beaches, hotel reservations are on the rise. However, both tourism industry employees and local residents are speaking cautiously about the start of the holiday season.

The Court of Appeal rejected the defense's appeal against the arrest of Volgograd journalist Vitaly Koshelev, accused of extortion, and remanded him in pretrial detention until May 23. His colleague, Alexei Serovoy, is under house arrest.

Over 18,000 people in Azerbaijan have been released from further prison terms as part of an amnesty. Human rights activists noted that the amnesty only affected those political prisoners whose sentences were already nearing completion.

The authorities of Chechnya and Dagestan will request federal assistance to address the aftermath of the devastating flood, as the total damage in the two republics exceeds 1 billion rubles.

On the 492nd day of continuous protests in Tbilisi, activists held a mass picket near one of the metro stations demanding the release of prisoners of conscience.

The authorities are quite quickly organizing repairs to roads and bridges destroyed by floods in Chechnya, but many residents are forced to deal with the consequences of flooded homes and private property on their own, since processing compensation takes a significant amount of time.

David Gubayev, killed in the war zone, is buried in Tskhinvali. In total, at least 49 combatants from South Ossetia were killed in the fighting in Ukraine.

A court in the Temryuk district fined local resident Olga Sklyarova for discrediting the Russian army for discussing the operation of the air defense system with her neighbors.

The reason for the criminal prosecution of a Dagestani resident was a comment "about approving of crimes committed by the Nazis."

The quality of tap water in Makhachkala has improved somewhat, but residents are wary of drinking it and still prefer to buy bottled water. Compensation applications will only be accepted from those "in genuine need," officials announced.