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The court fined Goryachy Klyuch City Council candidate Valentina Shostak 2,000 rubles, finding her guilty of interfering with the work of the electoral commission during the September 12-14 elections. Shostak's case is typical of how pressure is exerted on independent candidates and observers, the lawyer believes.

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze stated that there is no chance of former President Mikheil Saakashvili being handed over to Ukraine.

Sergei Guriev*, a native of North Ossetia and an economist, has been added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of terrorists and extremists.

A court in Krasnodar granted a motion filed by Albert Romanov, the representative of the Chechen leader in Kaliningrad, who is accused of bribing Rostov judges, to suspend proceedings due to the signing of a contract with the Ministry of Defense and his deployment to the SVO zone.

Following the arrest of David Ambartsumyan, who was sentenced to imprisonment for organizing mass riots, Norayr Hakobyan, a representative of his bloc, became the head of the Masis community.

Soslan Nigkolov and Timur Magkoev from the Digorsky district were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have named at least 515 combatants from North Ossetia killed there.

At least six residents of the village of Goyty in the Urus-Martan district of Chechnya were killed in the war zone in Ukraine on the same day. Another native of the village is hospitalized with injuries.

Eight opposition members, who have been on hunger strike outside the Georgian parliament for three weeks, are barely able to move due to weakness, but they have no plans to end their protest.

On the 355th day of continuous protests, marchers in Tbilisi performed the national anthem at the Ilia Chavchavadze House Museum and placed Georgian and EU flags on the Saarbrücken Bridge.

A military court in St. Petersburg sentenced Eldar Kabardaev, a native of Karachay-Cherkessia, to six years in prison for inciting extremism. Kabardaev claimed in court that he wrote the comments at the behest of security forces.

Former Deputy Governor and Minister of Transport of the Rostov Region, Vitaly Kushnarev, was sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security penal colony and a fine of 475 million rubles.

Georgian citizens living abroad will be able to vote in the elections only if they return to their home country and show up at the polling station corresponding to their registered address, announced Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili. Opposition members called this decision "an attempt to cancel the elections," citing the large number of Georgian emigrants.

In the village of Bala Jafarli in the Gazakh region, an employee of the Azerbaijani Mine Action Agency was blown up by a mine; his leg was amputated.

Relatives confided in Chechen native Aliya Ozdamirova knew she was in danger upon returning home, according to correspondence between Aliya's friend and her relative.

Six residents of Dagestan, who, according to investigators, were planning attacks on police officers, were detained and taken into custody in Makhachkala.

Eldar Nasrulaev, a tenant of a warehouse near a gas station in the suburbs of Makhachkala, received a five-year prison sentence for improperly storing ammonium nitrate, which led to a deadly explosion at a gas station in Makhachkala.

A Baku court dismissed the appeal against political scientist Bakhruz Samedov's placement in solitary confinement. The prison administration appealed to the court to have Samedov transferred to a closed prison.

The trial of former leaders of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, accused of war crimes, is being conducted under the Azerbaijani Criminal Code and does not require the intervention of international organizations, Facebook users* stated.

Georgian human rights activists have filed a new complaint with the ECHR regarding the violation of the rights of journalist Mzia Amaglobeli, who has been subjected to administrative and criminal prosecution.

A court sentenced a Nalchik resident to a 400,000 ruble fine, finding her guilty of financing extremist activity. The woman claimed she transferred the money to the Anti-Corruption Foundation* by mistake.