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Drone debris fell on the grounds of an oil depot in Novorossiysk. Two local residents were injured during the air strike and were hospitalized. A private home was damaged in Anapa.

The UN Human Rights Committee's position on the case of Chechen native Mansur Movlayev does not preclude his extradition from Kazakhstan to Russia. Movlayev's extradition would violate international law, and his appeal to the European Parliament is intended to convey to the Kazakh authorities the political consequences of such a move.

A group of activists and human rights defenders wrote letters to the head of Rostov-on-Don's Pre-Trial Detention Center No. 1, where Kuban pensioners Zakharova, Kuzovenko, and Nabiyev are being held, asking for medical care and adequate conditions.

Karabakh activist Artur Osipyan, arrested in Yerevan, has declared a hunger strike in a pretrial detention center, demanding an apology from Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan for the insults he suffered. Observers believe Osipyan's prosecution is politically motivated, as he has not broken the law.

South Ossetian resident Ruslan Gazzaev was killed in the combat zone. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have officially acknowledged at least 97 South Ossetian servicemen killed there.

Participants in a rally outside the Georgian parliament on the 541st day of continuous protests demanded the release of political prisoners and funding for the purchase of medications for children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

A suspect in preparing to blow up an energy facility has been detained in Novorossiysk.

The Adygea Prosecutor's Office has submitted to court the case of a teenager from Adygea, who is accused of justifying terrorism due to his comments on social media.

A resident of Chechnya's Vedensky District beat up a man who had come to a stadium with his wife, saying that women shouldn't be in public places. When he was taken into police custody, he also struck a security officer.

Vladimir Popov, 59, was released after spending nearly six years in prison on extremism charges. One of the six convicted Jehovah's Witnesses* from Gukovo remains in prison.

Statements made in public in 2024 have become the basis for criminal prosecution of a resident of Dagestan's Derbent district. The man faces up to five years in prison.

For three weeks, the authorities failed to provide assistance to Tuapse resident Anastasia Guchapsheva in repairing her home, which caught fire during a fire at an oil refinery in late April. The condition of the buildings, which were not properly dried out, only worsened during this time.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has added human rights activist Stanislav Dmitrievsky*, who has worked in the armed conflict zone in Chechnya since 1995, to the register of foreign agents.

Nikol Pashinyan stated that Armenia will never enter into conflict with Moscow, while his main opponents in the parliamentary elections focused on the country's future and the security of its residents.

At the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, a hearing on the Meydan TV case was disrupted after journalist Khayala Agayeva spoke out, declaring that the persecution of the publication’s employees was politically motivated and recalling corruption scandals involving Azerbaijani politicians.

Ilyas Karaketov was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 195 fighters from Karachay-Cherkessia have been officially recognized as killed.

6.5 kilometers of beaches in Anapa have been filled with imported sand, and there are no fuel oil emissions on the coast. The decision has been made to immediately remove beaches from the "danger zone" as soon as the sand is filled, the governor of the Krasnodar Krai reported. The blogger reiterated that sifted sand is better suited for beaches.

In Sukhumi, wreaths were lowered into the sea and a "Nart bonfire" was lit to commemorate the end of the Caucasian War. A procession was held in Damascus, Syria, and Circassians gathered in Aleppo to honor the memory of the fallen. Commemorative events were also held in cities and towns across the Caucasus republics.

Following a brawl between local residents in the village of Solodushino in the Nikolaevsky district, four participants were charged, and one victim was hospitalized. Representatives of the Roma community apologized for the incident, adding that the other side in the conflict was also at fault. Their opponents claimed the conflict had been going on for years.