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The Supreme Court of Ingushetia has toughened the sentence of Musa Gezgiev, former head physician of the republic's oncology dispensary, replacing his 4.5 years of suspended imprisonment with the same real term.

Police in the Tikhoretsky District have opened a criminal case of animal cruelty following the killing of a dog in the village of Alekseyevskaya. The suspect has been released on his own recognizance. Animal rights activists intend to seek the harshest possible sentence for him.

Investigators have referred to court the case of a 19-year-old student from Dagestan accused of setting fire to a battery cabinet on a railway in the Moscow region.

Gadzhimurad Tsarainov, Shirvani Magomedov, and three of their fellow countrymen from the Botlikh District were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have officially confirmed at least 1,832 Dagestani servicemen killed there.

A beach owner in the village of Vityazevo has begun adding a new layer of sand from quarries at a test site. This restoration project may later be expanded to other beaches in the emergency zone, according to the Kuban emergency response center.

The Volgograd Regional Court upheld three lawsuits filed by Igor Nagavkin against the federal and regional departments of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) regarding the conditions of his detention in the Leninsky Pre-Trial Detention Center and Uryupinsk Correctional Institution No. 23.

The Supreme Court of Adygea rejected the Social and Ecological Union's lawsuit against the republic's Committee for Architecture and Urban Development. The lawsuit concerned the preservation of protective forests, where 9,950 trees are planned to be cut down for the construction of the Lagonaki ski resort. The environmental activists intend to appeal the decision.

73 million rubles have been raised for the treatment of a boy with Duchenne muscular dystrophy; 230 million rubles are needed for the Elevidis injection. The fundraiser's organizers explained that he had not yet received assistance under the state program and expressed hope that the fundraising would be completed before the end of Ramadan.

According to security forces, the man was planning to set fire to an airplane on orders from Ukrainian intelligence services at a military airfield in the Krasnodar region; he has been arrested.

On the 455th day of continuous protests, supporters of Georgia's European integration held a march to commemorate the 105th anniversary of the Soviet occupation. Security forces prevented them from completely occupying the road, citing a lack of permission.

For the 24th time, unknown individuals have destroyed the memorial plaque on the Moscow building where Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered – once they smashed the memorial plaque, and 23 times they destroyed plaques that activists had restored.

The law does not require contracts to be signed with all prisoners who express a desire to be sent to a military operation zone. In Dagestan, selectively granting such an opportunity could be corrupt, lawyers emphasized, commenting on reports of numerous refusals to send Ziyavudin Ashikov, former acting head of the Kaspiysk police department, to the SVO zone.

Adilkhan Abdaev from Khasavyurt was killed in combat. Over the past four years, authorities have publicly named at least 1,827 Dagestani servicemen killed in Ukraine.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan has increased the sentence for Eldar Nasrulaev, who was found guilty of improper storage of ammonium nitrate following an explosion near a gas station on the outskirts of Makhachkala in August 2023. He was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison.

Azerbaijani opposition politician Tofig Yagublu has been placed in solitary confinement. His daughter attributes the punishment to her brother's participation in a protest in Washington, D.C., outside the hotel where the Azerbaijani president was staying. In protest, Yagublu has declared a hunger strike.

The Nalchik City Court of Kabardino-Balkaria will hear a criminal case against the manager of a cable car whose collapse in the summer of 2025 injured 13 people.

Mozdok resident Yulia Melnichenko held a picket outside the Russian Prosecutor General's Office for the second day in a row, demanding that a security officer be punished for beating her brother and that the repression against her family cease. Security officers detained her and released her three hours later, assuring her that the Prosecutor General's Office would not pursue her case.

Vladimir Varzar and Sergei Morozov from Kamyshin were killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,695 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

During commemorative events marking the 82nd anniversary of the deportation of Chechens and Ingush, participants raised issues of the restoration of the Aukhovsky District, land distribution, and the government's lack of attention to these issues. Appeals to Putin made at the rally called for the need to determine the district's status, end the controversial practice of land transfers, and provide guarantees to prevent a repeat of the tragedies of the past.

Former police officers Kalogi Aziev and Alikhan Yusupov did not appear at the first hearing.