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Only 18,000 children attended Anapa's children's camps this year; in previous years, the city hosted 120,000-130,000 children. Following the oil spill, Anapa will have several years to restore its reputation for children's recreation.

A march marking the 32nd anniversary of the fall of Sukhumi, attended by refugees from Abkhazia, concluded at the Georgian parliament. Participants in the march and protest, now in its 304th day, spoke out against the pro-Russian policies of the Georgian Dream party.

Investigators seized prayer mats, phones and laptops, a photo album, books purchased online, and money given to the family, said the wife of Sochi-based blogger Mansur Gneev.

Those wishing to perform the Hajj in 2026 must submit documents by the end of January, the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Chechnya reported.

Relatives of soldiers missing in action during the 44-day war have demanded a meeting with the leadership of the Armenian General Staff to learn the fate of their children.

A mudflow has cut off transport links between 19 mountain villages in the Charodinsky District of Dagestan and the republic. The mudflow is still moving, so road clearing has not yet begun.

Oleg Ivanov was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 818 fighters from Stavropol have been officially recognized as killed.

In Azerbaijan, the prosecutor has requested a three-year prison sentence for Elmir Sadygov, the uncle of opposition blogger Tural Sadygly, in a drug trafficking case. The defense considers Elmir Sadygov's prosecution unfounded.

Following heavy rainfall in eastern Georgia, two rivers overflowed their banks, flooding the yards and homes of residents of the villages of Verkhvismindori and Kabali.

Marat Dzhankhuvatov, the owner of the gas station in Novy Khushet where 13 people died in an explosion, hired unaccredited specialists to repair the gas pipeline. The investigation concluded that the repairs violated safety regulations.

General Vladimir Shamanov, a veteran of the Chechen wars, expressed outrage that the renaming of Cossack villages in Chechnya constitutes an erasure of historical memory after the republic's Russian-speaking population was expelled. Deputy Anzhelika Glazkova pointed out that the renaming in heavily subsidized Chechnya will be carried out at the expense of Russian taxpayers.

Over the course of the past night, air defense forces intercepted 55 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) flying over Russian regions.

Grigory Kutsebko and Alexander Derbenev were killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,367 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

Fragments of an unmanned aerial vehicle were discovered on a street in a village in the Temryuk district of Krasnodar Krai.

Temporary restrictions on departures and landings of aircraft at Volgograd Airport have been lifted.

Air defense forces repelled drone attacks tonight in Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog, Azovsky, Matveyevo-Kurgansky, Myasnikovsky and Millerovsky districts.

A fire broke out at the Afipsky Oil Refinery in the Seversky District of Kuban as a result of fragments from an unmanned aerial vehicle falling.

International organizations and Armenian diaspora activists abroad must seek the return of refugees to Nagorno-Karabakh under the supervision of UN peacekeeping forces and with guarantees, representatives of Karabakh NGOs stated.

Shakhban Idrisov, Gairbeg Abakarov, and two other soldiers from the Gergebil district were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, officials have released figures for at least 1,581 Dagestani soldiers killed.

Journalist and Circassian activist Larisa Tuptsokova, who lives in Georgia, learned that a criminal case has been opened against her in Russia for extremism.