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Two commuter trains in Dagestan will not operate on the evening of April 2, and seven more will be temporarily cancelled on April 3 due to repair work on the collapsed railway bridge on the Berikey-Kayakent section.

Ilya Sotnikov, a resident of the village of Blagoveshchenskaya, rode an ATV onto the village beach to pick up some collected fuel oil. His report will be reviewed in a few days. While the inspectors are legally correct, as the beach is a specially protected natural area, volunteers and environmentalists pointed out that the purpose of the trip was to assist with beach cleanups.

Another group of fighters trained at the Russian Special Forces University flew from Grozny to the combat zone.

A Moscow court has seized the property of former Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan Rufat Ismailov, worth 533 million rubles, and transferred it to the state.

2,400 claims for compensation for damages have been filed by residents of Chechnya following the flooding.

Searches were conducted at the Kurakhsky District administration and the homes of the deputy head of the district and members of the commission for the prevention and elimination of emergency situations in connection with the illegal payment of financial assistance.

Power and water are gradually returning to the homes of Makhachkala residents, although tap water is unfit for consumption. Pumping water from the flooded streets and courtyards is proceeding extremely slowly, and it took a long time to recover the cars.

The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan dismissed opposition politician Tofig Yagublu's cassation appeal. Having exhausted domestic appeal mechanisms, the defense intends to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.

Private homes in the village of Supsekh were damaged by UAV debris, and drone fragments were also found in Anapa and Novorossiysk. The Russkaya compressor station, which supplies gas to the Turkish Stream gas pipeline, was also attacked.

A "Carpet" regime was introduced at Vladikavkaz Airport on the morning of April 2 amid a drone threat declared in North Ossetia, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported.

Over the past four months, courts in southern Russia have sentenced at least seven people to prison terms for social media posts. The actual number of such sentences is significantly higher, as not all terrorism justification cases are included in public court records.

The opposition United National Movement's lawsuit challenging the legality of the parliamentary commission investigating possible crimes committed by Georgia's previous governments has been dismissed. The lack of oral hearings violated the principles of a fair trial, the opposition claimed.

Four high-ranking officials in the Krasnodar Krai administration have retained their posts despite being arrested in connection with corruption investigations.

More than 100 houses have been completely destroyed by flooding in Chechnya.

Abdulmalik Abdullayev was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,883 fighters from Dagestan have been officially recognized as killed.

The total damage amounted to almost 600 thousand rubles.

Combining Armenia's course toward rapprochement with the EU and membership in the Eurasian Economic Union is "definitely impossible," Vladimir Putin declared at a meeting with Nikol Pashinyan in the Kremlin. He also stated that Moscow would "like" all pro-Russian political forces to participate in Armenia's parliamentary elections.

A court has remanded a Stavropol Krai resident in pretrial detention after he was accused of spreading false information about the Russian armed forces due to comments he made on a messenger app.

A military court in Rostov-on-Don has imposed a fine on a minor resident of Krasnodar accused of justifying terrorism for a comment about Brenton Tarrant.

A state of emergency due to flooding has been extended to 12 municipalities in Dagestan. The republic's authorities have received over 4,000 applications for compensation for damage caused by the floods.