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A Tbilisi court sentenced Russian citizen Anton Chechin to 8 years and 6 months in prison on drug charges. Chechin claims the drugs were planted on him for his participation in pro-European protests. After the verdict, bailiffs violently evicted the support group from the building.

About a hundred people are fighting a forest fire in the Untsukulsky district, its area has grown to 27 hectares. Residents of the village of Gimry are taking part in the fight against the fire even at night.

An unexploded shell was found in a multi-story building in Rostov after a drone attack; 320 residents are being evacuated to a temporary accommodation center.

Recently, four violators have been detained on the border between Georgia and South Ossetia, one of them is under arrest.

The Security Service of Ukraine suspects the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, of violating the laws and customs of warfare.

A temporary accommodation centre has been opened at a school for residents of multi-storey buildings damaged during a drone attack in Rostov-on-Don.

In their closing remarks, the lawyers for Russians Artem Gribul and Anastasia Zinovkina stated that their case lacks a number of pieces of evidence, and that records from the search of the apartment recorded the presence of an unknown person in it who was not mentioned in the protocol.

Father of many children Ruslan Zhadaev returned to raising his children after his sentence for unauthorized abandonment of his unit was changed to probation. Fellow villagers, the school and the local administration provided assistance to the family, but Zhadaev faces a lawsuit with his ex-wife over the house.

Residents of Rostov-on-Don reported explosions and a fire that started in one of the city's districts. The fire started on the roof of two residential buildings, the head of the Rostov Region confirmed.

A criminal case has been opened after children who were swimming in an Anapa hotel were poisoned with chlorine. Authorities claim that the hotel provided "all support measures" to the affected guests.

Officials promised to solve the problem with free textbooks in schools, but the problem persists, children are not provided with the necessary books, parents said. An employee of the Ministry of Education of Dagestan referred to the demographic situation in the republic.

Participants in pro-European protests in Tbilisi blocked Rustaveli Avenue for the 278th consecutive evening. Three dozen people have been accused of violence at the protests, although more than a thousand participated, the Georgian Prime Minister said.

The transfer of lists of lagging students to the Chechen authorities will not improve the academic performance of schoolchildren, but will only create additional psychological problems for them, teachers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" are sure. The proposed measure is not only unethical, but also contrary to the law, the lawyer pointed out.

A protest action was held at the Tsitsernakaberd memorial in Yerevan against restoration work, which, according to the protesters, is being carried out with violations.

The dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, created to resolve the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, undermines the organization's authority and leaves the issue of the rights of the region's Armenian residents unresolved, Karabakh activists said.

The dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, created to resolve the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, undermines the organization's authority and leaves the issue of the rights of the region's Armenian residents unresolved, Karabakh activists said.

The overall volume of Chechen language teaching in the republic's schools will not change, said the first deputy minister of education of Chechnya. The state news agency changed the publication with the minister's words, who had previously said that Chechen language teaching would be reduced from five hours a week to one.

Corporal Georgy Gorokhov and private Nikolay Myasoedov were killed in the war zone. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 605 soldiers from the Astrakhan region have been officially recognized as killed.

On the eve of the new school year, parents of children in a kindergarten in Vladikavkaz were asked to transfer their children to other preschool institutions, citing the emergency condition of the building.

Soslan Soliev from the Irafsky district was killed in combat. Since the start of the Russian operation in Ukraine, the authorities have officially acknowledged that at least 480 fighters from North Ossetia have been killed there.