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For the 331st consecutive day, protesters in Tbilisi blocked traffic on Rustaveli Avenue near the parliament building. Throughout the day, police detained approximately 25 people for participating in the protests of the previous days.

The third group of volunteer soldiers since the beginning of October was sent from Grozny to the war zone in Ukraine after training at the Special Forces University in Gudermes.

The Shirvan Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal against the sentence of ethnic researcher and editor-in-chief of the website "News of the Talysh National Academy" Igbal Abilov.

Investigators in Rostov-on-Don have charged an 18-year-old man and two 16-year-olds with arson on a railroad. The young men's actions are classified as terrorist attacks, and the elder is also charged with money laundering.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has added journalist Ruslan Suleymanov*, who currently lives in Azerbaijan, to the register of foreign agents.

Investigators have blamed officials in the Khivsky District administration for the delayed construction of a kindergarten in the village of Khorej, where residents complained to Dagestan's head, Sergei Melikov. A criminal case is being investigated under the article on negligence.

The Prikubansky Court of Krasnodar fined Alexander Loiko for discrediting the army for his words in a telephone conversation.

The Chechen authorities' decision to conduct educational talks with girls without head coverings and their parents should be interpreted as psychological violence.

Today, 85 members of Azerbaijani families who fled the Khojaly region during the Karabakh conflict returned to the villages of Dashbulag and Seyidbeyli. Authorities reported that more than 6,300 people have been provided with jobs in the districts that have come under Azerbaijani control.

Specialists have restored power to Novoshakhtinsk residents' homes, which was interrupted overnight by a drone attack.

Police officers spoke with residents of the village of Nogir, who opposed the transfer of agricultural land for the construction of a satellite city of Vladikavkaz. However, officials failed to respond to the villagers' calls to prevent the development.

A court in Nalchik sentenced Alexander Nemchenko to five years in prison, finding him guilty of leaving his unit without permission during mobilization.

Environmental activists have begun cleaning up fuel oil spills found on the seashore in Anapa and the Temryuk district. Authorities have enlisted local government staff to help.

The former Georgian prime minister has been charged with money laundering. A search of Garibashvili's home revealed $6.5 million, the Prosecutor General stated, and requested that the former official be released on bail equivalent to $369,000.

Volunteers discovered oil spills today in the village of Veselovka, on the Bugaz Spit, and in the village of Blagoveshchenskaya. The monitoring was conducted following a warning from Kuban authorities that a slick of fuel oil weighing up to 900 tons was moving toward the shore.

Airports in Volgograd, Gelendzhik, and Krasnodar have lifted restrictions imposed due to flight safety concerns.

Air defense forces intercepted 111 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over Russian regions, including more than forty in the south.

Following a massive drone attack on the Rostov region, Novoshakhtinsk was left without power after a transformer burned out.

During the night, the military intercepted drones in Taganrog, Novoshakhtinsk, Krasnosulinsky, Myasnikovsky, Kamensky, Zimovnikovsky, Tarasovsky, Millerovsky, Kuibyshevsky and Sholokhovsky districts.

Krasnodar and Gelendzhik airports are temporarily closed to aircraft due to the threat of drone attacks.