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Last night, two drones were shot down in the Volgograd region and one in the Rostov region, the Ministry of Defense reported. Restrictions imposed due to flight safety concerns have been lifted at Volgograd Airport.

Four categories of Abkhazia residents will receive electricity bill discounts starting January 1. In the three years since the peak of mining activity in Abkhazia, electricity consumption has decreased by almost a third, authorities reported.

Restrictions on the arrival and departure of flights have been introduced at Volgograd Airport due to flight safety concerns.

Sochi residents who complained about a gynecologist's actions and unethical statements received a response from the Kuban Ministry of Health. Officials confirmed the violations but noted that they could not punish the doctor in any way, as she had resigned from the women's clinic voluntarily.

Two months later, Karush Oveyan, who was arrested for participating in a rally in support of Gyumri Mayor Vardan Ghukasyan on October 20, was released.

An accident occurred on a power line in the Rostov region, leaving several villages and part of Aksai without power, and some areas of the city also without water and heating.

The convicted primate of the Shirak Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Archbishop Mikael Ajapayan, was taken to the Izmirlyan Clinic after several requests from his lawyers that he require urgent surgery.

More than 26,000 refugees from Karabakh have received Armenian citizenship. The displaced persons themselves described the decision as forced; they needed to obtain an Armenian passport to find work and participate in a housing program. Karabakh human rights activists believe that accepting Armenian citizenship does not deprive the refugees of their right to return.

Anastasia Zinovkina, a prisoner in Georgia, is unable to get out of bed during her seizures, and her right fingers and toes have become paralyzed, according to her fiancé, Artem Gribul. He expressed hope that the appellate court will address the inconsistencies in the testimony of the security officers in the trial court's verdict, which sentenced them to 8.5 years in prison.

Nikita Milogradov was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 532 fighters from North Ossetia have been officially recognized as killed.

The mother of Chechen teenager Roman Murdiev filed a complaint with the Moscow Prosecutor's Office regarding the use of handcuffs behind his back and his joining with another defendant during her son's arrival at court. The Moscow Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs found no violations. The proportionality of the escort's actions must be justified, the lawyer stated.

Yuri Marinenko, who headed Volgodonsk for a year, has been arrested on fraud charges. Investigators allege that in 2016, while serving as head of the city's Ministry of Internal Affairs, he illegally obtained low-income status and, using this status, obtained ownership of an apartment free of charge.

The winner of the annual Nargiz Prize, which is awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy in Azerbaijan, was Afiyaddin Mammadov, chairman of the alternative Confederation of Trade Unions of Azerbaijan "Workers' Platform", who is serving a prison sentence.

At least 4,074 soldiers from the North Caucasus Federal District and 4,228 from the Southern Federal District have been recognized by authorities and security forces as killed in the military operation in Ukraine.

Authorities in the Sredneakhtubinsky District presented awards to the relatives of soldiers killed in the military operation. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,591 soldiers from the Volgograd Region have been officially recognized as killed.

The first group of Azerbaijani displaced persons returned to the village of Karkijahan, the former capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, today.

A court in Krasnodar has concluded its closing arguments in the case of former Rostov Regional Court Chair Elena Zolotareva and her colleagues. The defendants pleaded not guilty to bribery.

In the Tuapse District, awards were presented to the relatives of soldiers killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 816 soldiers from the Krasnodar Territory have been officially recognized as killed.

Contrary to established practice, the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan allowed convicted politician Tofig Yagublu to speak at his cassation appeal hearing. The politician maintained his innocence.

Following the prosecutor's office's demand that assets belonging to the associates of former Makhachkala Mayor Said Amirov and Dagestan State Secretary Magomed-Sultan Magomedov be seized, the properties of individuals unrelated to the former officials were seized. One of them faced the risk of property seizure.