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Seven cultural institutions were partially damaged in the Kulinsky district of Dagestan after a snowfall, and three livestock farms remain without transport links.

Investigators have opened a criminal case against singer and comedian Semyon Slepakov* from Stavropol Krai for evading his duties as a foreign agent. Investigators intend to place him on the international wanted list.

Residents of Sunzha, Ingushetia, are concerned about the lack of riverbank protection work amid heavy rainfall in the region. Residents fear a repeat of the situation in Dagestan.

A court in Nalchik sentenced Andrei Omelchenko to one year in prison, finding him guilty of evading military service during mobilization.

The Cherkessk City Court has arrested Dmitry Bugayev, former Minister of Property and Land Relations of Karachay-Cherkessia. Investigators accuse him of abuse of office, resulting in 16.7 million rubles in losses to the regional budget.

A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Daniil Panov to a long prison term, finding him guilty of two terrorist attacks.

A court in Krasnodar has ruled the actions of Krasnodar Krai Ministry of Education officials who ignored a violation of parents' rights to freedom of speech and opinion at Sochi's Kindergarten No. 121 illegal.

Security forces left the Novaya Gazeta newspaper's Moscow office only that night, allowing its staff to go home. Documents and equipment were confiscated from the office.

A Moscow court has begun a retrial of a Chechen native accused of causing grievous bodily harm. The defense intends to prove that the victim used ethnic insults.

Participants in the evening protest outside the Georgian parliament dedicated their posters to the victims of the dispersal of an opposition rally in Tbilisi on April 9, 1989.

Two men injured in a drone attack overnight were transported to Krasnodar for treatment. The overnight attack in the Krymsky district damaged eight private homes and one apartment building.

A court in Volzhsky sentenced local activist Varvara Luch to five days in jail for allegedly promoting extremist symbols. Luch attracted the attention of law enforcement officials for her attempts to secure approval for a rally against the Telegram ban.

Judge Patimat Makhatilova, who legalized a house in Makhachkala that partially collapsed during the flood, has resigned.

Russian Emergency Situations Minister Alexander Kurenkov announced an increase in the state of emergency in Dagestan and Chechnya due to flooding.

Hundreds of volunteers came to the aid of residents of the village of Mamedkala in the Derbent district after the flooding. Social media users expressed gratitude to those who came from other villages in Dagestan and neighboring republics. The authorities' efforts are insufficient, and residents are asking for the water to be pumped out and their homes dried out as quickly as possible.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has placed Karina Iminova and Said-Khamzat Baysarov on the wanted list, suspected of murdering Chechen woman Aishat Baimuradova. Iminova is also wanted as a missing person.

More than 550 million rubles were donated to the Nadezhda charity foundation to help victims of the floods in Dagestan.

Searches are underway at the Novaya Gazeta newspaper's Moscow office, and lawyers are not allowed into the building. One of the men was carried out of the building on a stretcher and into an ambulance. Investigators have announced a criminal case for the illegal use, transfer, collection, and storage of personal data.

In 2015, Pavel Gubarev was kidnapped by Chechen fighters after reports surfaced online that he had alleged Ramzan Kadyrov's involvement in the Charlie Hebdo attack. The former "people's governor" of Donbas stated this in an interview shortly before the hearing of the military defamation case opened following Apti Alaudinov's statement.

In Krymsk, three people were injured when a drone crashed onto an oil depot; the fire was extinguished.