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Officials took no action to clear the flooded streets in the Reduktorny settlement of Makhachkala, and the prolonged power and water outages forced some residents to leave their apartments.

The Volgograd Regional Court has increased the sentence for Dmitry Lebedev, former chief engineer of Water Supply Concessions, sentencing him to five years in a penal colony.

A court in Adygea sentenced a local resident to a fine after investigators found him making money transfers to an extremist organization.

In addition to the federal emergency regime in effect in Dagestan, Sergei Melikov declared a regional emergency regime due to severe weather in several areas of the republic, including mountainous ones.

In the Taganrog pretrial detention center, checks were conducted after the Muslim prisoners began their dry hunger strike, and their situation improved somewhat. Some prisoners are still refusing food, but intend to gradually end their hunger strike.

Given economic factors, the Trans-Caspian Corridor is not capable of replacing the sea routes through the Straits of Hormuz or Bab el-Mandeb. However, against the backdrop of the war in Iran, its importance as an alternative route to Europe has temporarily increased, according to Russian analysts.

On the 504th day of uninterrupted protests, protesters at the Georgian Parliament once again took to Rustaveli Avenue with banners and flags. The activists declared they would not pay the administrative fines, despite the freezing of their bank accounts.

Russian citizen Anton Chechin, a participant in pro-European protests convicted in Georgia, has been transferred to a closed prison. Chechin and another convicted Russian, Artem Gribul, were fined for card playing.

The ferry crossing across the Don River near the village of Novogrigoryevskaya has been out of service for four days. The "state" ferry is undergoing repairs, while the "private" ferry has been closed by regulatory authorities. A district council member has reassured local residents that the private ferry will resume service on April 16, and the "state" ferry on June 1.

An EMERCOM Mi-8 helicopter delivered aid to the cut-off village of Bezhta in the Tsuntinsky District of Dagestan. The same aircraft was unable to evacuate a meteorologist from the Sulak-Vysokogornaya weather station.

A joint cleanup effort at Anapa's central beach was carried out by rescuers and volunteers. The volunteers reported that the oil spill was quickly removed. The number of birds contaminated with oil in recent days has exceeded 400.

A court in Nalchik sentenced Ibragim Mutaliev to five years in prison, finding him guilty of evading military service during mobilization.

Activist Varvara Luch was released from pretrial detention after five days of administrative arrest for allegedly promoting the symbols of extremist organizations.

The Court of Cassation refused to overturn the sentence of Radzhab Aykham Kamal, a Syrian displaced person and the CEO of Nedvizhimost-Nalchik LLC. In his testimony, he stated that he was unable to complete the construction of housing for orphans due to the sharp rise in the price of building materials following the imposition of sanctions after the start of the Second World War.

The body of a man missing after an avalanche was found in the Tsumadinsky District of Dagestan. Local residents quickly pulled another victim from the snow.

Water pumping is still ongoing in flooded areas of Dagestan, local residents reported. They say volunteers are providing significant assistance.

Eduard Popov, head of the village of Lvovskoye, was killed in a military operation in Ukraine. Since its beginning, at least 842 soldiers from the Krasnodar region have been officially recognized as killed.

Musa Khautiev from the Malgobek district was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 189 fighters from Ingushetia have been officially recognized as killed.

A Yerevan court has begun hearing the case of Samvel Karapetyan, leader of the Strong Armenia party. The defense has requested that the defendant be released from house arrest to prepare for the June parliamentary elections.

Relatives of Rauf Arashukov, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, were denied their request to transfer him from the Orenburg region to a penal colony in Mordovia. The former senator's defense team disagreed with the decision.