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Bishop Vrtanes Abrahamyan, head of the Artsakh (Karabakh) Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, attended a meeting with Prime Minister Pashinyan, where a group of clergy demanded the Catholicos' re-election. Karabakh refugees criticized Abrahamyan and called on him to resign.

The republic's Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment reported that 484 dead seals were found on the Caspian Sea coast in Makhachkala and three districts of Dagestan. Experts say the animals show signs of suffocation.

Temporary restrictions on incoming and outgoing flights have been imposed at airports in Grozny, Magas, and Vladikavkaz. A drone strike threat has been issued in North Ossetia and Chechnya.

The court that sentenced Akhmed Pogorov, co-chair of the World Congress of the Ingush People, to nine years in prison on charges of organizing violence at a rally in Magas stripped him of his well-deserved titles and awards, but this did not affect the attitude of Ingushetia residents toward him.

On the 370th day of continuous protests, protesters outside the Georgian parliament thanked the authors and participants of the BBC investigation into the use of toxic substances against demonstrators.

The case against the Meydan TV journalists has been transferred to the Baku Court of Grave Crimes. A preparatory hearing is scheduled for December 12.

A court in South Ossetia sentenced a local resident to 12.5 years in prison, accused of collaborating with the "Georgian side."

Gurgen Grigoryan, a native of Abkhazia who served in the Russian army, was killed in the Russian military operation zone in Ukraine.

Former Georgian Deputy Prime Minister and Political Secretary of the United National Movement, Georgiy Baramidze, has become a defendant in an in absentia criminal case being heard by a Russian court in Donetsk.

In Volzhsky, residents of private homes filed a lawsuit against the gas distribution company, which forced them to move a gas pipeline at a cost four times higher than the market value of the service. According to the residents themselves, the land purchase documents made no mention of an existing gas pipeline.

At a plenary session, the State Duma prematurely stripped United Russia deputy Anatoly Voronovsky of his powers, granting his request.

Police are searching for "signs of extremism" in the text of a poster for which Seda Suleimanova's friend, Lena Patyaeva, was arrested for ten days. The activist herself called the charge absurd.

Andrei Pominov from the Mozdok district was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have publicly acknowledged the deaths of at least 526 combatants from North Ossetia.

During an inspection of the coastal area from the Temryuk district to Anapa, 17 dead dolphins were found.

Andrei Zubarev was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,559 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

A military court in Nalchik sentenced Pavel Belov to five years in prison, finding him guilty of leaving his unit without permission during mobilization.

The Dagestan Ministry of Natural Resources reported on an investigation into new seal deaths on the Caspian Sea coast. Telegram users speculated that the animals are dying due to the unfavorable environmental conditions.

A drone attack last night in the Tuapse District injured two people and damaged three homes, a power line, and a gas pipeline. Seven private homes were damaged in the village of Severskaya.

A resident of Kuban, whom security forces suspect of transferring money to a person who was raising funds for the Ukrainian military, has been taken into custody.

Those arrested in the Meydan TV case were persecuted at the behest of Azerbaijan's leadership for their journalistic activities, one of the defendants, Shamshad Aga, testified in court. The court extended his pretrial detention, refusing to transfer him to house arrest.