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In Volzhsky, awards were handed over to relatives of 12 servicemen killed in combat operations in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,352 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed in it.

A resident of Astrakhan, suspected of passing information about military facilities to Ukrainian intelligence, has been taken into custody.

An Aeroflot flight departed today from Moscow to Krasnodar airport, the operation of which was suspended after the start of the military operation in Ukraine.

Last night, the military neutralized drones in the Chertkovsky, Kuibyshevsky and Dubovsky districts of the Rostov region.

Hamlet Margvelashvili, detained by security forces in the Znaur district, has been released and handed over to the Georgian authorities. In August, 46 violators were detained at the border, the KGB of South Ossetia reported.

Residents of a house on Tsyurupa Street in Sochi that burned down nine years ago have received claims for its demolition. They believe that the demand is related to the activities of a developer who built a multi-story building dangerously close to their house.

Despite assurances from the Muftiate of Dagestan about neutrality in the matter of demolition of the historical Chechen mosque in the village of Leninaul in the Aukhovsky district and promises to resolve the issue according to Sharia, the opening of the newly erected mosque still took place and was timed to coincide with the birthday of Mufti Akhmed Abdullaev.

The court, following a lawsuit by the Prosecutor General's Office, converted the assets of the former Chairman of the Supreme Court of Adygea, Aslan Trakhov, and his family, totaling more than 13 billion rubles, into state revenue.

A candidate for deputy of the Astrakhan City Duma, Andrei Smirnov, accused by a member of the precinct election commission of beating, recorded violations during voting in previous years, and the precinct where the incident with his participation occurred is known for falsifications, claims a local political scientist.

A court in Adygea has sent a resident of Krasnodar Krai to pretrial detention for throwing a pig's head into the mosque of the village of Kozet.

Voting in the Volgograd region, where no violations were officially recorded, was formal and ended with a predictable result. In the absence of political competition, independent observers and total control by the authorities, elections as such have ceased to have any real meaning, analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" stated.

Protesters in Tbilisi demanded that those involved in the attack on activists and security forces guilty of torturing detained demonstrators be held accountable. Oppositionists also announced a protest at the Supreme Court.

In most of the villages of Dagestan, where elections for heads were held on September 14, candidates from United Russia won. Only in one of the villages was a representative of the New People party elected head, and in three more, independent candidates received the majority of votes.

After the death of three people, a court in Nalchik ordered the director and chief engineer of the company that operated the emergency cable car on Elbrus to be remanded in custody.

The 10-ruble increase in the price of a minibus ride has become very noticeable for pensioners and low-income villagers who travel to Grozny. At the same time, public transport runs irregularly and is almost always overcrowded, local residents said.

A representative of the prosecutor's office requested 16 to 17 years of strict regime imprisonment for former Volgograd City Duma deputies Yevgeny Shchur, Fyodor Litvinenko and Aleksey Zverev, accused of organizing a criminal community and fraud with fictitious traffic accidents.

A Baku court has extended the pretrial detention of defendants in the Meydan TV case by three months.

The charge of damaging someone else's property, brought against one of the leaders of the "Coalition for Change" Elena Khoshtaria, carries a prison sentence of up to five years. The oppositionist herself called the trial a "farce" and waived her right to defense, considering legal litigation with the authorities pointless.

Astemir Khashkulov from the Zolsky district was killed in combat. Since the start of the Russian operation in Ukraine, the authorities have publicly acknowledged that at least 291 fighters from Kabardino-Balkaria have been killed there.

The case of three young men suspected of setting fire to a cell tower in the village of Tlyustenkhabl and a railway locomotive in Krasnodar has been referred to court.