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A court in Derbent has remanded Rajidin Yaraliev in custody until March 27 in connection with the murder of Malvina Magomedova, whose charred and dismembered remains were discovered two days earlier.

Three of the nine patients hospitalized from the village of Novaya Adygeya following the airstrike remain in hospital. Eighteen adults and four children are being held at a temporary shelter.

At a court hearing in Baku, it was revealed that Anar Rahimov, the man Kenan Zeynalov is accused of assaulting, had been cleared of fraud charges shortly before the incident. Zeynalov's fellow party members suggested that this was a condition for Rahimov's participation in a provocation against the opposition leader.

During the closing arguments in the case of Rostov judge Elena Kobleva, accused of accepting a bribe, the prosecutor requested a 10-year prison sentence. For the other two defendants, the prosecution requested seven and nine years in prison.

In the village of Novaya Adygeya, 92 cars were damaged, 27 burned, as a result of an air strike. Authorities announced compensation of up to one million rubles to their owners. VKontakte users debated the extent to which such compensation would cover the damage.

Nikita Kolchenko from the Frolovsky district was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,652 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

Investigators have opened a criminal case in connection with a prolonged heat outage in Volgodonsk. Following a heating main failure, residents of 80 apartment buildings were left without heat for over a day.

A petition by human rights activists calling on Armenian authorities to release the body of murdered Chechen native Ayshat Baimuradova to her friends for burial has garnered 107 signatures.

A court in Nalchik sentenced Asker Dzhalalov to a year in prison, finding him guilty of leaving his unit without permission during mobilization.

Alexey Kravchenko was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,651 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

Fifty-two internally displaced persons have returned to the village of Gasanriz in the Agdere region of Azerbaijan and have been given keys to their own homes.

An Armenian court has remanded in custody for two months the brother of Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II, Gevork Nersisyan, who is accused of hooliganism and obstructing election campaigning.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced nine residents of Kherson, finding them guilty of attempting to assassinate local officials. The defendants were sentenced to 14 to 20 years in prison.

Recording children on video without parental consent is prohibited, but school administrators often obtain permission for such filming, lawyers noted in response to a video message from Rostov kindergarten students addressed to "Akhmat." They noted that the video touches on interethnic and ethical issues.

Following the reopening of the investigation into abuse of power by staff at Rostov Prison Hospital MOTB-19, one patient has been questioned as a witness, but he does not yet have victim status. Investigators are gathering materials for the case.

The Court of Cassation refused to change the decision to seize the property of the former chairman of the Krasnodar Regional Court, Alexander Chernov, in favor of the state.

Students and faculty from Georgia's two largest universities held new protests against the government's decision to merge the universities, and then joined a rally outside the parliament building on Rustaveli Avenue.

The Prosecutor General's Office's second claim for the confiscation of assets of former head of the Adygea Supreme Court Aslan Trakhov and his son, former chairman of the Prikubansky District Court of Krasnodar Rustem Trakhov, has been upheld.

The anti-corruption project "Watch in Volgograd"*, created by activist Evgeny Kochegin, has been added to the register of foreign agents. Project representatives stated that the Ministry of Justice has classified random individuals and even deceased people as their participants.

Andrei Minakov from the Novoanninsky District was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,650 soldiers from the Volgograd Region have been officially recognized as killed.