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Investigators suspect two residents of Dagestan of involvement in an organization that studied and distributed extremist materials.

Alikhan Tsakayev was awarded the rank of lieutenant general almost two years after the high-profile arrest of the head of the Chechen Ministry of Emergency Situations in Dagestan and the Investigative Committee's silence on the results of its investigation into the conflict between an official close to Kadyrov and local security forces.

The murder of Malvina Magomedova, whose charred remains were found in Dagestan, was the result of her choice to marry a man with multiple criminal records, several social media users pointed out. Other commenters countered that the habit of blaming the victim distracts attention from the main issue—the killer's responsibility.

The investigation into the collapse of a chairlift on Mount Elbrus, which killed three people in September, has been completed. Eleven passengers on the chairlift also suffered injuries.

Alijadzhi Rabadanov from Kaspiysk was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 1,788 fighters from Dagestan have been officially recognized as killed.

Human rights activists helped a young man from an influential Chechen family avoid reprisals from his relatives by organizing his evacuation from the republic.

Work is underway to install cofferdam piles in the Kerch Strait, while the protective structures themselves have already been installed over the sunken parts of fuel oil tankers. Pumping will begin only after the piles are installed, Rosmorrechflot reported.

Dmitry Dryanin and Pavel Nikeshin were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 685 soldiers from the Astrakhan region have been officially recognized as killed.

Narek Samsonyan, co-author of the "Imnemnimi" podcast, was brought to the Yerevan court hearing in a wheelchair. His defense and the opposition blamed his condition on his imprisonment and a 15-day hunger strike.

At least 4,213 fighters from the North Caucasus Federal District and 4,344 from the Southern Federal District have been acknowledged by authorities and security forces as killed during the military operation in Ukraine.

The Kazakh Prosecutor General's Office ordered the extradition of Chechen native Mansur Movlaev, stating that his defense has the right to appeal the decision. The court has not yet heard the appeal against the denial of refugee status for Movlaev, his lawyers stated.

The court sentenced 52-year-old Volgograd resident Pavel Palekhov to 18 years in prison, alleging espionage. His previous conviction for assaulting a law enforcement officer was also included in the sentence. According to traffic police, he attempted to cause an accident to escape after being detained.

The family of a disabled teenager from Krasnodar received notice that he had been excluded from the national sledge hockey team, despite an expert assessment ruling out any similarity between the athlete's gesture during a match and a Nazi salute. The teenager's family has decided not to appeal the decision.

The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria overturned the Nalchik City Court's decision to reinstate Professor Murat Khokonov as department head at KBSU. This decision contradicts three previous court rulings, Khokonov stated, adding that he intends to seek justice.

A military court in Nalchik sentenced Zalim Bekov to five years in prison, finding him guilty of leaving his unit without permission during mobilization.

Ruslan Burzhumov and Elman Abdulkadirov from the Tabasaran district were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 1,787 fighters from Dagestan have been officially recognized as killed.

Residents of the village of Tsunta in the Tsuntinsky District have appealed to the head of Dagestan and law enforcement agencies for help in restoring water supply to the Lastochka kindergarten.

Members of 26 Azerbaijani families who fled the village during the Karabakh conflict have returned to the village of Mamedbeyli in the Zangilan district. They have been given keys to new homes.

The funerals of Anatoly Dzhioyev and Dmitry Kozayev, killed in combat, were held in South Ossetia. At least 41 South Ossetian fighters have been killed there since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine.

The United Kingdom and 23 other OSCE countries have initiated the creation of an expert mission in response to the deteriorating human rights situation in Georgia. The mission's representatives are to assess human rights violations in the country from 2024 onward.