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Ivan Gel, head of the Ilovlinsky District, failed to appear at the first court hearing of the retrial of his subordinate in the steppe fire. A representative of the victims petitioned to change the official's pretrial detention. Witnesses confirmed that the deceased administration employee opposed the use of untrained personnel to fight the fire.

Lieutenant Kristina Gorbunova was sentenced to three years in prison in Kabardino-Balkaria for accepting a bribe of one and a half million rubles. According to investigators, she accepted the bribe in exchange for a soldier's release from combat.

Alexander Pereverzev from Stavropol was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 847 soldiers from Stavropol Krai have been officially recognized as killed in the fighting.

The congress of the republican party "Forum of National Unity of Abkhazia" accused the republic's authorities of introducing police-style management methods and threatened to initiate mass protests.

Armed, masked men stole donations and documents from the church of Archbishop Viktor Pivovarov of the Russian Orthodox Church, then took his assistant, Ilya Sigida, with them. Sigida's mother was informed that he was being detained on charges of discrediting the army.

At the first court hearing in human rights activist Ivan Ivanov's lawsuit against the administration and regulatory authorities over internet outages in Volgograd, no witness was given the floor, and officials refused to answer the plaintiff's questions.

The court, which toughened the sentence of a developer in a case of fraud involving housing for orphans, did not oblige him to return the stolen advance payment to the budget, despite orphans in Kabardino-Balkaria waiting ten years or more for apartments.

Archimandrite Dorote Kurashvili, defrocked for supporting protesters, held a prayer service at a rally outside the Georgian parliament on the 365th day of protests.

Participants in the 2023 riots at Makhachkala's Uytash Airport attempted to disarm security forces and threw stones at them, according to witness testimony read out in court.

A court in Astrakhan has remanded in custody regional resident Alexander Dvoryanchikov, accused of attempted sabotage and terrorism.

Monitoring from November 22 to 27 revealed no new fuel oil emissions in Anapa and the Temryuk district, the task force announced.

Ethnic Ossetian Alan Gatsoev, who spent five months in the neutral zone, will travel to South Ossetia after being discharged from the hospital. His best option would be to obtain South Ossetian citizenship, but he also needs to challenge the decision to deport him from Russia, according to activists assisting him.

Six people are still on hunger strike in front of the Georgian parliament building, four of whom have been refusing food for 31 days. Three have ended their hunger strike due to worsening health conditions.

For the first time since the 2008 Five-Day War, repairs to the tunnel leading to the Kodori Gorge have begun in Abkhazia. Regional authorities cited security concerns as the reason for the repairs.

Ethnic Ossetian Alan Gatsoyev is in a hospital in Vladikavkaz; his treatment will be free for the first three days. For the first time after five months spent on the Georgian-Russian border, Gatsoyev is in comfortable conditions and able to communicate with his family in person.

Daniil Artemov was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 766 fighters from the Rostov region have been officially recognized as killed.

A public prayer by students at the North Ossetian Medical Academy was captured on photos posted on Telegram channels. The university's ethnic composition has changed, including with a large number of students from India and Chechnya, the North Ossetian ombudsman noted, calling on the university's leadership to carry out preventative measures.

The head of Azerbaijan's Kanal-13 internet television channel, Aziz Orujov, was released today after serving his full prison sentence.

Residents of Makhachkala and Kaspiysk are complaining about smoke and fumes from burning landfills, but authorities have assured that no landfills in Dagestan are burning, and the air in Makhachkala is clean.

Makhachkala authorities announced the restoration of a banner dedicated to Imam Shamil, which was damaged by an unknown person. Telegram channel authors demanded that the culprit be identified, forced to apologize, and held accountable.