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The Committee to Protect Journalists deemed Ahmed Mammadli's conviction to be the result of a fabricated case and demanded his release and an end to the persecution of journalists in Azerbaijan. The defense intends to appeal Mammadli's sentence.

At least 4,384 soldiers from the North Caucasus Federal District and 4,519 from the Southern Federal District have been officially recognized as killed in the military operation in Ukraine.

Drones were shot down in nine districts of the Rostov region overnight and this morning. According to the governor, there were no injuries.

Yakub Aidimirov was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,869 fighters from Dagestan have been officially recognized as killed.

The court has remanded the Deputy Minister of Property and Land Relations of Ingushetia, who is suspected of embezzling nearly 580 million rubles as part of a group, in custody for more than a month.

The organizer of a rally in defense of Telegram received a refusal from city authorities, citing that such an event is contrary to public safety interests and that the designated location is not intended for such events.

The court fined the "Chitai-Gorod" bookstore, located in the "Etazhi" shopping center in Makhachkala, 800,000 rubles for selling three books containing LGBT propaganda.

34,576 refugees from Karabakh have received Armenian citizenship; five thousand people have applied for it since the beginning of the year.

The Cassation Court upheld the seizure of property worth more than five billion rubles from the former chairman of the Supreme Court of Adygea, Aslan Trakhov, and persons associated with him.

The Nalchik Garrison Military Court sentenced serviceman Beslan Mestayev to five years in prison after he left his military unit stationed in Ingushetia without permission and was absent for almost a year.

Supporters of Georgia's European integration protested outside the parliament building for the 478th consecutive evening. Police were granted special access to the cathedral, where the funeral service for Patriarch Ilia II is taking place.

Due to the situation in Iran and reports of a shell hitting the nuclear power plant, radiation levels in Dagestan are being measured three times a day. Rospotrebnadzor, the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing, is not releasing these measurements publicly.

Rasul Aganov and Aleksey Isayev from the Adyge-Khablsky district were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have publicly named at least 192 combatants from Karachay-Cherkessia killed there.

Azerbaijan's ability to rapidly increase gas production and exports is limited by the capacity of existing fields and the Southern Gas Corridor, but in the coming years, the European Union can ensure its energy sustainability by participating in Azerbaijani projects, including green energy projects.

A military court in Nalchik sentenced serviceman Georgy Gurtsiev, who was detained in Kabardino-Balkaria after six months of absence from his unit, to a prison term.

Police in the Krasnodar village of Kalinino denied lawyer Alexei Ivanov a confidential meeting with his client. The lawyer filed a complaint with the Investigative Committee.

52 settlements in the Charodinsky district of Dagestan were left without transport links as a result of a major rockfall on the Gunib-Tsurib highway.

The Krasnodar Regional Court sentenced Ukrainian Emergency Situations Ministry Lieutenant Colonel Igor Lominoga to a lengthy prison term, finding him guilty of treason.

Azerbaijan has declared 11 days off in connection with the spring holiday of Nowruz and the end of the month of Ramadan. The war in the Middle East has impacted residents' weekend plans and the country's tourism sector.

Nikolai Ivanyuk was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 1,727 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.