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A drone attack caused a fire at the Ilsky Oil Refinery. A tank containing petroleum products also caught fire in the village of Volna in the Temryuk District.

A Baku court has sentenced former Karabakh state minister Ruben Vardanyan, who is accused of war crimes.

At a Baku court hearing, Rufat Safarov, head of the Defense Line, described his criminal prosecution as a politically motivated act in retaliation for his human rights work. A witness who testified at the hearing did not confirm the investigation's version of events.

Priest Sergiy Fufayev, having criticized the ideas in Apti Alaudinov's book, voiced the official position of the Russian Orthodox Church, citing distortions of key tenets of the Christian religion as the basis for his criticism.

Last night, the military shot down drones in the Azov region and Taganrog. According to the governor, there were no injuries or damage.

Today, members of 120 Azerbaijani families who fled the city during the Karabakh conflict returned to the city of Aghdam.

Kuban pensioners Nikolai Nabiyev, Sergei Kuzovenko, and Marina Zakharova, accused of creating an illegal armed group, received packages from sympathizers timed to coincide with the start of Maslenitsa week. A relative of Nabiyev's reported that they are prohibited from visiting, but are allowed to correspond.

In addition to Irchi Kazaka Street, where Makhachkala authorities have failed to patch a pothole for over 170 days, the city faces numerous problematic roads. Activists have announced the launch of the "Road Monitor" project, which aims to help officials identify and fix these defects.

Armenia's Central Election Commission has begun accepting applications for participation in the parliamentary elections and approved the schedule of key events. Analysts believe the parties of Nikol Pashinyan, Robert Kocharyan, and Samvel Karapetyan will be the key contenders in the elections.

Any civic expression, whether a plaque commemorating Anna Politkovskaya or a "Last Address" sign for a victim of Stalin's repressions, provokes active aggression among supporters of the government in Russia. Impunity encourages spontaneous acts of vandalism, even without direct orders from above.

In the village of Ilsky, two people were injured and hospitalized when a drone crashed. Four private homes were damaged.

Valery Gornich, head of the Proletarsky District of the Rostov Region, suspected of abuse of power, filed a complaint against the pretrial detention measure, but the appellate court upheld his arrest.

For the 16th consecutive time, activists have installed a homemade memorial plaque in memory of journalist Anna Politkovskaya on the facade of her Moscow home. The previous plaque remained in place for less than a day.

Activist Vladimir Telpuk was detained with flowers at the "Departing to Heaven" monument to victims of political repression in Volgograd on the anniversary of the death of politician Alexei Navalny. He spent about an hour in police custody and was released without charge.

On the 446th day of continuous protests, participants gathered outside the Georgian Parliament to protest Georgian Dream's plans to introduce an article on extremism and the grounds of "non-recognition of the government" into the criminal code. Students from Sukhumi State University, located in Tbilisi, staged the protest against education reform.

Chechen native Bashir Alibiyev, arrested in France after the murder of his ex-wife, Larisa Arsanukayeva, died in a detention center cell. Sources have ruled his death a suicide, although his relatives claim cardiac arrest.

The Leninsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don sentenced Irakli Bzhinava to two months in jail for making anti-Russian statements and attempting to incite ethnic hatred online.

The Baku Court of Appeals rejected the appeal to extend the arrest of Ali Karimli, leader of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan. The opposition politician released a statement denying the charges against him.

The reconciliation between Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and Dagestani senator Suleiman Kerimov took place in the Kremlin, where both were invited by Putin, according to Ravil Gainutdin, head of the Russian Muslim Spiritual Directorate. Other sources also mentioned Putin's involvement in the reconciliation, calling it a commercial deal.

Yarash Shamshidov from Makhachkala was killed in the military operation in Ukraine. Since its beginning, at least 1,809 fighters from Dagestan have been officially recognized as killed.