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The Predgorny District Court of Stavropol Krai sentenced Eldar Kulbyakov, who accused security forces of torturing him with electric shocks, to four years in prison after finding him guilty of theft.

Over the past week, more than 650 birds contaminated with oil products have been delivered from the beaches of Anapa to the rehabilitation center on Zhemchuzhnaya Street.

More than a dozen supporters of the Strong Armenia party have been detained on charges of giving and receiving election bribes.

Moscow's Nikulinsky Court has seized the Khasavyurt power grid complex, illegally acquired by Magomed Kaitov, former head of the Interregional Grid Company of the North Caucasus, and turned it over to the state.

The helicopter was able to pick up a weather forecaster from the Sulak Vysokogornaya weather station; the station worker's health is not in danger.

A container site beneath the windows of buildings on Novoselov Street in Sochi has effectively become an illegal dumpsite, infested with rats and rank with odors that prevent apartment windows from being opened. However, appeals to the authorities, including the presidential administration, have been fruitless.

A landslide in the Dakhadayevsky District continues to move, destroying 17 homes and damaging 87 more. 178 residents have been evacuated and are being housed with relatives. Roads and a water main were also damaged.

The massive attack on Tuapse continued throughout the night, terrifying the city's residents. The smell of burning lingers in Tuapse this morning, but Rospotrebnadzor reported no air pollution.

Alina Dzhikaeva, charged with bribing a police officer, pleaded not guilty. The officer, a duty officer at the Makhachkala Department of Internal Affairs, admitted to abuse of power and accepting a bribe.

Denis Orlov was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 884 soldiers from the Rostov region have been officially recognized as killed.

In the high-mountain village of Khosrekh, blockaded by snow, dozens of homes were damaged and numerous livestock were lost. Landslides threaten transportation in the Kulinsky District of Dagestan.

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.