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Azerbaijan is among the European countries with the highest rate of criminal prosecution of journalists. Of the 148 journalists imprisoned at the end of 2025, 36 were in Azerbaijan.

Social media users found the circumstances of the death of former Chechen senator Umar Dzhabrailov mysterious, skeptical of the suicide theory. Readers of the "Caucasian Knot" also expressed doubts about the businessman's suicide.

A Novocherkassk university student suspected of setting two electrical substations on fire has been taken into custody.

Alexander Zakharov from the Novoanninsky District was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,706 soldiers from the Volgograd Region have been officially recognized as killed.

A drone attack in Novorossiysk damaged 76 private homes and 38 apartment buildings. Authorities announced compensation for the victims. Telegram users debated the extent to which these amounts would be sufficient to cover the damages.

Last night, the military shot down 21 drones in the Volgograd region, four in the Rostov region, and two in the Astrakhan region. In the Rostov region, debris from a downed drone fell on a construction site.

The condition of Nurlan Gahramanli, arrested in the Meydan TV case, has noticeably worsened as a result of a prolonged hunger strike, and he is not receiving effective medical care, the journalist's wife reported.

Workers cleared the roads through the Kharib and Butsrakh passes, which were closed to traffic at the end of February after a snowfall.

Roman Kolodko and Sergei Milyutin from the Georgievsky District were killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 918 soldiers from the Stavropol Krai have been officially recognized as killed.

Over the past 24 hours, more than 400 people, including two groups of Russian citizens, were evacuated from Iran to Azerbaijan via the Astara checkpoint. One of the groups of Russian citizens departed from Lankaran Airport for Moscow on an Emergencies Ministry plane.

The premiere of a film about journalist and politician Yuri Shchekochikhin took place in Moscow. Attendees praised his work both as a journalist and in politics, noting his integrity and commitment to investigating high-profile cases, including those in Chechnya.

A court in Bataysk sentenced Araz Guseinov, found guilty of attacking a Wagner PMC fighter in 2023, to 10 years in a maximum-security prison colony.

Ramzan Kadyrov reported on the dispatch of a new group of graduates from the preparatory course at the Russian Special Forces University to the war zone in Ukraine.

A homemade plaque in memory of Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya, installed on the facade of her home on the night of March 3, was destroyed in less than 24 hours.

An apartment building was damaged by a drone in the Traktorozavodsky district of Volgograd, with five injured requiring medical attention. The mayor's office arranged for the evacuation of the building's residents to a temporary shelter.

Major repairs to the water supply network in Karabulak, Ingush, where residents have been complaining for years about serious problems with the water supply, have not been completed by the contractor whose company received over 160 million rubles from the budget.

On the 461st day of continuous protests on Rustaveli Avenue, activists congratulated the mothers of political prisoners on Mother's Day, which is celebrated in Georgia today.

The prosecutor's office in Dagestan's Karabudakhkent district has secured a strict pretrial detention order for the director of a child care center in the village of Paraul, where children were poisoned by carbon monoxide.

Igor Sivirin from the Salsky District was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 867 combatants from the Rostov Region have been officially recognized as killed.

The Stavropol Krai Prosecutor's Office has discovered that former Deputy Head of the Stavropol Administration Denis Kravchenko possesses property worth 20 million rubles, which he acquired while serving in municipal service.