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St. Petersburg activist Alexander Sherchenkov, at a picket in front of the Russian embassy in Yerevan, demanded the release of Yuri Mikheev, who was convicted in Russia in a case of sabotage.

Azamat Abuyev was killed in a military operation in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 553 fighters from the Astrakhan region have been officially recognized as killed in it.

The court sentenced two defendants in the case of the assassination attempt on the former Deputy Prime Minister of Ingushetia, assistant to State Duma deputy Sherip Alikhadzhiev, recognizing them as the customer and the perpetrator.

Last night, air defense forces shot down a drone in the Kuibyshevsky district of the Rostov region.

Rosaviatsia has resumed normal operations at airports in Elista and Volgograd.

In the village of Vpered in the Apsheronsky district, security forces identified two local residents who were illegally carrying out missionary activities in a prayer room in a private home; a third illegal missionary was found in the village of Novovelichkovskaya in the Dinsky district.

Representatives of the Azerbaijani diaspora were detained in Yekaterinburg. According to the source, one of them died. Baku called on Moscow to investigate the detention and punish those responsible. A visit to Azerbaijan by Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk was cancelled amid the accusations.

Drivers of more than 200 vehicles are waiting to cross the Crimean Bridge to Krasnodar Krai.

An appellate court in Tbilisi has rejected the appeal against the arrest of social studies teacher Nino Datashvili, who is accused of attacking bailiffs.

A court in Yerevan has chosen a measure of restraint for the head of the Shirak Diocese, Mikael Ajapakhyan, who is accused of calling for the seizure of power. The archbishop's lawyers called the accusation unfounded.

The investigation of criminal cases of participation in military operations in Chechnya allows security forces to curry favor, but leaves doubts about the objectivity of the investigation and the guilt of the convicted, the human rights activist and political scientist pointed out.

The military has neutralized a drone launched from Ukraine in Krasnodar Krai. Seven more drones have been shot down over the Azov and Black Seas.

A Tbilisi court has sentenced opposition politician Nika Melia to eight months in prison after finding him guilty of disobeying a parliamentary investigative commission.

Security forces in Armenia have detained Archbishop Mikael Ajapakhyan, he is charged with calls to seize power. Ajapakhyan has declared his innocence.

A resident of the village of Belozerny was detained for setting fire to an electrical cabinet on the railway; a criminal case was opened under the article on a terrorist act.

The leader of the opposition party "Droa" Elene Khoshtaria declared an indefinite hunger strike outside the parliament building, protesting against the policies of the Georgian authorities.

The claim to limit the parental rights of activist Lyudmila Borzilo, a mother of many children, was withdrawn by the applicant herself, the guardianship and trusteeship authority of the Orlovsky district of the Rostov region.

Another child injured in a gas explosion in Dagestan's Buinaksk region has died in hospital, bringing the death toll from the incident to three.

Ramzan Kadyrov's third son, 17-year-old Adam Kadyrov, is marrying a fellow villager named Medni. The wedding is being celebrated in the Kadyrovs' ancestral village, his older sister Aishat reported.

Nikolai Volokhov, killed in Ukraine, is buried in Lermontov. Since the start of the Russian operation in Ukraine, the authorities have publicly named at least 767 soldiers from Stavropol Krai killed there.