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Three former presidents of the unrecognized republic of Nagorno-Karabakh told investigators and a court in Baku that all orders and instructions regarding military operations against Azerbaijan in different years came to them from Yerevan.

Unknown persons defaced portraits of combatants installed in Makhachkala. Acting Mayor Dzhambulat Salavov threatened them with punishment.

Igor Eisenakh from Zhirnovsky district was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, the authorities have officially named at least 1,311 soldiers from the Volgograd region as killed.

Timur Kishukov, who has been a US citizen since 2017, came to visit his relatives in November 2024 and ended up in a pretrial detention center in Nalchik. Security officials forced him to confess to working for US intelligence, and then opened a criminal case for participating in the fighting in Syria.

Rapid reconciliations between families under pressure from the authorities, as in the case of the traffic accident caused by Ramzan Kadyrov's nephew, lead to a delayed blood feud that can be realized immediately after the situation in Chechnya changes.

Volunteers manually remove bags of fuel oil collected near Cape Tuzla, since the Krasnodar Region Ministry of Emergency Situations refused to provide them with an all-terrain vehicle for this purpose.

Former President of the Kuban Mountaineering Federation Alexander Rastorguev died while climbing Mount Dzhangi-Tau in Kabardino-Balkaria, after being caught in a rockfall. Another participant in the climb was injured and rescuers evacuated her to Nalchik.

Activists held a march and picket in support of arrested demonstrators Mindia Shervashidze and Tornike Toshkhua at the Supreme Court building in Tbilisi, and in the evening they again blocked traffic along Rustaveli Avenue near the parliament.

The investigation into the Meydan TV case has been completed, and those arrested have been charged under eight articles of the criminal code. Today, the 12th suspect, photojournalist Ahmed Mukhtar, was arrested.

Instead of the five hours a week allocated in schools for studying the Chechen language and literature, starting this year only one hour will be allocated, the Chechen Minister of Education announced, explaining that this hour will be extracurricular.

Sabur Velikhanov was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 1,525 fighters from Dagestan have been officially recognized as killed.

Abkhazian native David Kalaydzhyan, who served in the Russian army, died in the zone of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine.

The cache found by security forces on the outskirts of Arshty in Ingushetia belonged to a former militant leader killed in Chechnya.

Sergei Skornyakov was killed in a military operation in Ukraine. Since its beginning, at least 803 fighters from Stavropol have been officially recognized as killed.

In the Rostov region, two people were charged under the article on filming the consequences of drone attacks, and they were fined.

Regular power outages paralyze the work of the Central District Hospital in Untsukulsky District, which is carried out entirely electronically. Hospital employees have appealed to deputies and Rosseti with a request to stop the outages.

The authorities of the Rostov region are considering the issue of assessing the damage to cars damaged in drone attacks and compensating for the damage; in total, about 80 cars were damaged.

The administration of the penal colony where Krasnodar activist Daria Polyudova is serving her sentence allows only one phone call per week. Polyudova calls her mother weekly and, due to the restrictions, can contact a lawyer.

Evgeniy Vaschenko, Andrey Statsenko, Aleksandr Rud, Murat Khachekozhev, Aleksey Kochkalov, Aslan Shogenov, Sergey Rudenko, Aleksandr Mirgorodsky, Konstantin Kholstinin and Tyngiz Bochkov were killed in the military operation in Ukraine. Since its beginning, at least 109 fighters from Adygea have been officially recognized as killed.

In the Pshad forestry, a fire caused by falling drone debris has engulfed 3.2 hectares. Some tourists are cut off from evacuation routes, a boat has been sent for them. The fire at the Afipsky Oil Refinery has been extinguished.