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Law enforcement officials have detained a suspect in an industrial safety violation that resulted in the death of a man in a gas tank fire at a gas storage station in Makhachkala. Local residents were evacuated from their homes and apartments due to the fire.

A memorial plaque installed by activists on the home of Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow has once again been destroyed by unknown persons.

Ingush public figure Musa Malsagov, sentenced to nine years in prison in the case of protest leaders, was released after serving his full sentence.

A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Magomed Kottoyev, a native of Malgobek, to a lengthy prison term, finding him an accomplice to those involved in the attack on a traffic police post on the border between Ingushetia and North Ossetia in March 2023.

Elder Akhmed Barakhoev, convicted in the "Ingush case," was released from prison. Also today, Ingush activist Musa Malsagov's sentence expired, his lawyer announced.

Traffic on a section of road in the Tsuntinsky district of Dagestan has been suspended after a rockfall.

A Chechen man detained after his daughter reported death threats to police has been deported from Armenia. He is also banned from entering Armenia.

A Baku court found Ruben Vardanyan guilty of war crimes without evidence, but there was no hope of a fair trial, according to his relatives. Vardanyan headed the Karabakh government for several months during the blockade of the Lachin corridor.

A drone attack caused a fire at the Ilsky Oil Refinery. A tank containing petroleum products also caught fire in the village of Volna in the Temryuk District.

A Baku court has sentenced former Karabakh state minister Ruben Vardanyan, who is accused of war crimes.

At a Baku court hearing, Rufat Safarov, head of the Defense Line, described his criminal prosecution as a politically motivated act in retaliation for his human rights work. A witness who testified at the hearing did not confirm the investigation's version of events.

Priest Sergiy Fufayev, having criticized the ideas in Apti Alaudinov's book, voiced the official position of the Russian Orthodox Church, citing distortions of key tenets of the Christian religion as the basis for his criticism.

Last night, the military shot down drones in the Azov region and Taganrog. According to the governor, there were no injuries or damage.

Today, members of 120 Azerbaijani families who fled the city during the Karabakh conflict returned to the city of Aghdam.

Kuban pensioners Nikolai Nabiyev, Sergei Kuzovenko, and Marina Zakharova, accused of creating an illegal armed group, received packages from sympathizers timed to coincide with the start of Maslenitsa week. A relative of Nabiyev's reported that they are prohibited from visiting, but are allowed to correspond.

In addition to Irchi Kazaka Street, where Makhachkala authorities have failed to patch a pothole for over 170 days, the city faces numerous problematic roads. Activists have announced the launch of the "Road Monitor" project, which aims to help officials identify and fix these defects.

Armenia's Central Election Commission has begun accepting applications for participation in the parliamentary elections and approved the schedule of key events. Analysts believe the parties of Nikol Pashinyan, Robert Kocharyan, and Samvel Karapetyan will be the key contenders in the elections.

Any civic expression, whether a plaque commemorating Anna Politkovskaya or a "Last Address" sign for a victim of Stalin's repressions, provokes active aggression among supporters of the government in Russia. Impunity encourages spontaneous acts of vandalism, even without direct orders from above.

In the village of Ilsky, two people were injured and hospitalized when a drone crashed. Four private homes were damaged.

Valery Gornich, head of the Proletarsky District of the Rostov Region, suspected of abuse of power, filed a complaint against the pretrial detention measure, but the appellate court upheld his arrest.