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A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Dagestani blogger Arslan Mirzaev (Ali Charinsky), finding him guilty of spreading "fakes" about the Russian army and calling for terrorism.

Rosaviatsiya (the Federal Air Transport Agency) has imposed temporary restrictions at Volgograd Airport, citing a threat to flight safety. A drone alert has been declared in the region.

The court arrested Vidadi Mustafayev, head of the Azerbaijani community in Ural, on charges of fraud. Mustafayev denied his guilt.

A rally demanding disclosure of the details of the agreement with the UAE company took place on Rustaveli Avenue outside the Eagle Hills office. Participants began collecting signatures for an online petition. The demonstrators then moved to the Georgian Parliament, where European integration supporters have been demonstrating for the 371st day in a row.

In Krasnodar, the regional court reversed its decision in a lawsuit filed by a family from Yeysk who suffered damage when a Su-34 bomber crashed into a residential building in October 2022.

Moscow's Basmanny Court has remanded former State Duma deputy Anatoly Voronovsky into custody on charges of accepting a particularly large bribe.

Algae in fuel oil and small emissions were discovered on the Bugayskaya Spit. The task force described them as insignificant and reported cleaning up the beach area.

The profile of Alexander Savelyev*, a journalist from Krasnodar and the author of the "Protocol" project who lives abroad, appeared in the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs' wanted list database. He suggested that the search may be related to prosecution under the article on "foreign agency."

Azerbaijani opposition politician Gultekin Hajibeyli is not allowed to see her son at a Turkish deportation center. Turkish authorities have not provided official information on whether Hajibeyli will be deported to Azerbaijan.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan has reduced the suspended sentence for the head of a budgetary institution in a case involving the embezzlement of 11 million rubles to seven years.

A video explaining the actions of a man fined for filming a drone attack on Kaspiysk serves as a stark reminder to residents of Dagestan of the consequences of publishing such videos.

The Prosecutor General's Office filed a lawsuit demanding that the homes and foreign cars of former Ingush Federal Tax Service employees Magomed and Ilyas Kushtov, suspected of abuse of power resulting in multi-million dollar damages, be forfeited to the state.

The court sentenced Stavropol resident Albert Elakaev to nine years in prison, finding him a participant in the 1999 attack by Shamil Basayev's group on Dagestan.

The drone strike threat issued in Chechnya last night has been cancelled.

Residents of Kurchatov Street in Krasnodar called on authorities to reconsider plans to build a highway on the site of a green recreation area near their homes. Their appeals to officials have gone unanswered, they complained.

Airport restrictions imposed due to flight safety concerns have been lifted in Vladikavkaz, Grozny, and Magas. The military has not recorded any drone attacks in the North Caucasus Federal District republics, and regional authorities have announced the end of the drone threat.

The military shot down drones in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky and four districts of the Rostov region.

A court sentenced a Baksan Vodokanal employee to eight months of restricted freedom after finding him guilty of poisoning city residents with tap water.

Namik Nabiyev from Azerbaijan is accused of transferring more than $28,000 to the Islamic State*, although he claimed to have been collecting donations.

A criminal case has been opened against a Rostov-on-Don resident who filmed drone attacks in the region. Three other people have been fined administratively for violating the ban.