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In May, at least six people in Dagestan were fined for displaying the Instagram* logo on signs and in posts. Telegram users considered the security forces' zeal excessive.

A landslide damaged a gas pipeline in the Buinaksk region, leaving residents of five villages without gas.

A court in Nalchik sentenced Valery Tyshchenko to a prison term, finding him guilty of leaving his unit without permission during mobilization. A month earlier, the soldier had already been convicted on a similar charge.

A fire caused by a drone attack at the port of Taganrog has been extinguished, and no fuel oil leak has been detected. The man and woman injured in the attack have been taken to the hospital.

Residents in four districts of Dagestan were left without power. A short circuit in the power grid has been blamed for the outage.

In Taganrog, a drone attack injured two people, and a fire broke out at the port. Damage to homes was also reported in two villages in the Rostov region.

Viktor Gorbachev was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,795 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

The court sent former head of the Zernograd administration, Irina Polischuk, who is accused of abuse of office and official forgery, to pretrial detention.

Repairs to the boiler house, which was damaged during the missile attack on May 27, have been deemed impractical, and city authorities are considering the option of constructing a new modular boiler house.

Armenia has significant rare earth element reserves, but US interest in this area is also driven by political reasons, which is why the memorandum was signed. Georgia has even larger reserves, but no similar agreements exist with the US. Azerbaijan, however, has no specific rare earth metal deposits.

The video of Belkisa Mintsayeva, who, after a month and a half of detention by security forces, declared herself fine, raises questions, particularly about why she didn't inform the human rights activists who were assisting her that she didn't need help.

Nikol Pashinyan must apologize to all internally displaced persons from Nagorno-Karabakh for his remarks about "fleeing," as it was his policies that led to the mass exodus of Armenians from the region, said arrested activist Artur Osipyan. The opposition leader continues his hunger strike in prison.

Kirill Prisyazhnyuk, after five days of administrative arrest in Makhachkala, was never released, and his wife, Sabikhat, was taken away for questioning after a search.

The conflict between the indigenous population and the Roma in the Volgograd village of Solodushino has been resolved. It was exaggerated by security forces and the media, but has lost its intensity, according to local residents. Analysts also dismissed the incident as insignificant.

The decision to terminate the resignation of former Deputy Chairman of the Krasnodar Regional Court Igor Nikolaychuk, from whom the court confiscated 13 billion rubles for state benefit, was made by the Qualification Collegium of Judges of Kuban.

A mass picket calling for the release of all prisoners of conscience took place in Tbilisi on the 548th day of continuous pro-European protests. Activists marched outside parliament with posters against police violence.

Civil Contract and Alliance Armenia appealed to the past in their May 29 campaign: Nikol Pashinyan's political force criticized its predecessors, while Robert Kocharyan recalled his own achievements. Strong Armenia and Prosperous Armenia tried to attract voters with promises of a prosperous future.

Stanislav Nemykin from the Novoaleksandrovsky district was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have officially listed at least 947 soldiers from the Stavropol Krai as killed.

After being cleared of fuel oil and refilled with new sand, 15 beaches in Anapa have received all the necessary permits for operation. Another 29 beaches, prepared for opening at the start of the swimming season, are undergoing assessment.

The Russian authorities base their anti-Western propaganda on a ostentatious defense of "traditional values" against the influence of LGBT* and tend to speculatively categorize all their opponents as belonging to this camp. Mansur Soltayev's appeal to Chechens in Europe continued the ideological trend set by the federal center.