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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.

A Derbent resident, who was taken to Makhachkala by security forces and held for some time, has returned home, but his relatives have been strongly advised not to speak to journalists.

A temporary memorial plaque has been torn down for the ninth time from the Moscow building where journalist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered. The inscription, painted on the wall where the granite memorial plaque once hung, has not yet been destroyed.

A military court in Rostov-on-Don found a 19-year-old Krasnodar resident guilty of justifying terrorism online. He was sentenced to a prison term.

The Central District Court of Sochi rejected the petitions of Milana and Eldar, the children of State Duma deputy Andrei Doroshenko, to overturn the interim measures imposed on the Prosecutor General's Office's anti-corruption lawsuit.

Activists gathered outside Georgia's parliament on the 439th day of continuous protests and expressed satisfaction with the government's abandonment of plans to merge the country's two largest universities.

Ramzan Kadyrov mentioned for the first time the road accident involving his third son, Adam, calling all media reports about the incident "fakes."

The Kuban Prosecutor's Office has approved charges against Sochi native Yevgeny Bursanidi. Investigators allege that, while outside of Russia, he persuaded a regional resident to commit sabotage on a railway.

The detention of Ali Karimli, leader of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, has been extended for another four months. His defense considers this decision unlawful and politically motivated.

Security forces detained a 43-year-old resident of the village of Kantyshevo for justifying the actions of militants killed in Chechnya during an attempt on the lives of law enforcement officers.

Opposition Coalition for Change leader Nika Melia, who is already serving a prison sentence for contempt of court, has been charged with insulting a judge.

The criminal prosecution of Eduard Baltykov from Kalmykia is part of a security forces campaign against indigenous activists, according to the human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial"*.

Priest Sergiy Fufayev stated that the ideas in the book by the head of the Akhmat special forces, Apti Alaudinov, lead to heresy.

Elena Kobleva received a ten-year prison sentence for fraudulently returning boats and seine nets in exchange for overturning a magistrate's court ruling. Two other defendants in her case—the bribe-giver and the middleman—received ten-year and six-year prison sentences.

Over the past month and a half, 15,119 people have benefited from the large-scale amnesty announced by the Azerbaijani president, the Ministry of Justice reported.

Blogger Alexander Lapshin claimed that Armenian security forces regularly detain him at the border because he is wanted in Belarus. An Armenian court dismissed Lapshin's lawsuit seeking an end to the detentions. 

Representatives of the Nagorno-Karabakh authorities, public organizations, and clergy in Armenia appealed to US Vice President J.D. Vance. They expressed confidence that Washington could play a key role in resolving humanitarian issues, particularly the release of prisoners.

Prices are rising again ahead of Ramadan, both in markets and stores, social media users reported.

The Herota River has risen due to heavy rainfall, leading to possible flooding and landslides, authorities reported. Social media users attributed the sudden rise to improper construction.

Shakhruddin Kadiev was killed in a military operation in Ukraine. Since its beginning, authorities and security forces have named at least 1,805 fighters from Dagestan killed.