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A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Uzbek citizen Zhavokhir Utkirov to 20 years in prison for plotting a terrorist attack on the Stavropol Krai government building.

The Tbilisi City Court has accepted for consideration the so-called sabotage case brought against Mikheil Saakashvili, Nika Melia, Nika Gvaramia, Zurab Japaridze, Giorgi Vashadze, Badri Japaridze, Mamuka Khazaradze, and Elene Khoshtaria. Three of the defendants face up to 15 years in prison.

A court in Kabardino-Balkaria will hear the case of a 24-year-old resident of the Zolsky district, charged with rehabilitating Nazism due to comments he made on social media.

A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Kuban resident Dmitry Khasyanov, finding him guilty of justifying terrorism and involvement in a terrorist organization.

Yevgeny Petrov and Roman Lyashenko were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, at least 1,678 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

Ramzan Kadyrov's eldest son, who became Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya in January, has been appointed to oversee the republic's education sector. Akhmat Kadyrov himself has not yet completed higher education.

A Baku court has declared the trial of former Karabakh State Minister Ruben Vardanyan, who is accused of war crimes, complete.

The panel of judges stripped the former chairman of the Supreme Court of Adygea of ​​his status as a retired judge. Aslan Trakhov has therefore been stripped of the immunity that his status as a judge provided.

The book's ideas about the joint struggle between Muslims and Christians are presented from an Islamic perspective, but adapted for fighters who consider themselves Orthodox, stated Apti Alaudinov, head of the Akhmat special forces, who suggested critics create their own ideologies.

The Moscow City Court rejected the defense's appeal against the sentence of blogger Areg Shchepikhin, who was kidnapped by Chechen security forces and sentenced to five years in prison.

Pavel Nestrugin was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,676 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

The military shot down two drones in the Astrakhan region, which became the only region in southern Russia to experience a drone attack last night.

Abkhazian public organizations have called on the president to dismiss Interior Minister Robert Kiuta, questioning the legality of the procedure for issuing Russian passports in Abkhazia.

Activists installed a new memorial plaque in place of the torn-down memorial plaques on the house where journalist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was shot.

Due to a lack of water and heat, residents of Nalchik buildings have been forced to heat their apartments with electric appliances or stay with relatives. Some buildings have been without water for four days, residents complained.

Traffic on the Transcaucasian Highway between Russia and South Ossetia is prohibited for all vehicles.

During US Vice President J.D. Vance's visit to Yerevan, a rally was held asking for assistance in securing the release of former Nagorno-Karabakh leaders imprisoned in Azerbaijan and in searching for those missing during the Karabakh wars.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, a criminal case has been opened against former magistrate Mukhamed Tembotov, who is accused of accepting bribes and acting as an intermediary in bribery.

J.D. Vance and Nikol Pashinyan signed a joint statement on investing $9 billion in Armenia's nuclear energy sector. Vance expressed his support for Pashinyan in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Azerbaijan's educational institutions face challenges with security and psychological work, which became particularly apparent after the incident involving a teenager who wounded a high school teacher in Baku's Binagadi district with his father's gun.