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Former Senator from Karachay-Cherkessia Rauf Arashukov, accused of bribing prison staff, asked the court to question the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) for the Orenburg Region, but his request was denied. The court granted Arashukov's requests to question prison staff and inmates.

The investigation into the murder of the Gasanguseinov brothers by security forces has yielded no results for many years, stated Murtazali Gasanguseinov, the father of the murdered brothers. His picketing attracted the attention of Makhachkala police.

The Baku Court of Cassation upheld Bakhtiyar Hajiyev's 10-year prison sentence. The decision was made despite arguments about the activist's innocence and violations in the case.

An Armenian court has extended the pretrial detention of businessman Samvel Karapetyan, who is accused of calling for the overthrow of the constitutional order and economic crimes.

The father of Murtazali Gasanguseinov, the shepherd brothers killed by security forces, held a solitary picket in Makhachkala demanding that investigators provide information on the progress of the criminal investigation.

Over the next two years, Kuban authorities plan to transfer more than 439 million rubles to the budgets of Anapa and the Temryuk district to restore beaches after fuel oil spills.

Sergei Bakholdin was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,503 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

Today, members of 37 Azerbaijani families who fled the village during the Karabakh conflict returned to the village of Khorovlu in the Jabrayil region.

The Ministry of Defense reported three drones shot down in the Rostov Region. No drone attacks were recorded in other regions of the Southern and North Caucasian Federal Districts last night.

Orphans from Petrov Val recorded a video message complaining about the substandard housing provided to them by the authorities. Investigators have opened a criminal case for negligence.

Last night, at least one drone attack occurred in the Chertkovsky district of the Rostov region.

The court fined Goryachy Klyuch City Council candidate Valentina Shostak 2,000 rubles, finding her guilty of interfering with the work of the electoral commission during the September 12-14 elections. Shostak's case is typical of how pressure is exerted on independent candidates and observers, the lawyer believes.

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze stated that there is no chance of former President Mikheil Saakashvili being handed over to Ukraine.

Sergei Guriev*, a native of North Ossetia and an economist, has been added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of terrorists and extremists.

A court in Krasnodar granted a motion filed by Albert Romanov, the representative of the Chechen leader in Kaliningrad, who is accused of bribing Rostov judges, to suspend proceedings due to the signing of a contract with the Ministry of Defense and his deployment to the SVO zone.

Following the arrest of David Ambartsumyan, who was sentenced to imprisonment for organizing mass riots, Norayr Hakobyan, a representative of his bloc, became the head of the Masis community.

Soslan Nigkolov and Timur Magkoev from the Digorsky district were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have named at least 515 combatants from North Ossetia killed there.

At least six residents of the village of Goyty in the Urus-Martan district of Chechnya were killed in the war zone in Ukraine on the same day. Another native of the village is hospitalized with injuries.

Eight opposition members, who have been on hunger strike outside the Georgian parliament for three weeks, are barely able to move due to weakness, but they have no plans to end their protest.

On the 355th day of continuous protests, marchers in Tbilisi performed the national anthem at the Ilia Chavchavadze House Museum and placed Georgian and EU flags on the Saarbrücken Bridge.