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The Supreme Court of Dagestan placed pregnant Jamila Garunova under house arrest. Human rights activists said the move was facilitated by the publicity surrounding the situation.

The court sentenced Arslan Taushev and Rasul Koshmanbetov to lengthy prison terms, finding them involved in the 2000 attack on Pskov paratroopers in Chechnya. The defendants denied their guilt.

Official Baku and the Armenian opposition extracted political benefits from an unsubstantiated report about Azerbaijanis demolishing the "We Are Our Mountains" monument in Stepanakert.

Security forces seized documents from the Dagestan Ministry of Natural Resources as part of a search in connection with a case of fraud involving the construction of waste processing plants, a source reported.

In Anapa, after cleaning and renewing the sand, a 3.5-kilometer stretch of beach from the Bimlyuk sanatorium to the Ryabinushka sanatorium was removed from the danger zone.

Police and Investigative Committee officers conducted a search today at the apartment of opposition figure Avetik Chalabyan and subsequently detained him. The Investigative Committee clarified that Chalabyan was detained as part of a criminal investigation.

Unidentified individuals smashed streetlights in Anapa's Orekhovaya Roshcha. Local residents, commenting on the incident on social media, called on authorities to find and punish those responsible and to establish nighttime security for the area.

At least 4,628 soldiers from the North Caucasus Federal District and 4,672 soldiers from the Southern Federal District have been officially recognized as killed in the special operation in Ukraine.

Tehran Rustamov, Shikhaili Fuganov, and Ramin Ismailov were killed in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 2,015 fighters from Dagestan have been officially recognized as killed.

Acting Governor of Dagestan Fyodor Shchukin promised to address the rapidly rising gasoline prices, including by involving the antimonopoly service. Residents of the republic, commenting on his words on social media, questioned why officials allowed fuel prices to rise. They called on Shchukin to back up his words with results.

Lithuanian authorities deported a Chechen native after denying him an extension of his refugee status, despite him having lived legally in the country for more than 20 years.

In a collective letter, members of the Krasnodar Krai election commissions called on the Russian Central Election Commission to hold the State Duma elections within a single day due to the high risk of overnight fraud. In response, the Central Election Commission stated that their letter contained no evidence of fraud due to the multi-day voting.

Three residents of the village of Gudben have been charged with organizing an extremist group. They are also accused of extortion committed by an organized group.

Arsen Alibekov from the Botlikh district was killed in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 2,012 fighters from Dagestan have been officially recognized as killed.

Residents of Bataysk recorded a video message demanding urgent action to save Salt Lake, which they say is under threat due to severe pollution. Appeals to various authorities have been unsuccessful.

The father of Magomedbek Khizbulaev, a conscript from Dagestan, is forced to borrow money to continue caring for his seriously injured son. The family has received no support from officials or lawmakers, and investigators insist on an accident, ignoring the soldier's claims of beatings.

The Krasnodar Regional Court found 62-year-old Sochi resident Natalya Nikolaeva guilty of rehabilitating Nazism and sentenced her to two years' probation for a social media comment.

Roman Alshanov was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, at least 748 combatants from the Astrakhan region have been officially recognized as killed.

The Public Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Ali Kerimli, Chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, expressed concern for his safety in pretrial detention after he was transferred to a cell with a mentally ill inmate.

The Achkhoy-Martan Court in Chechnya received an administrative case against a local resident accused of searching for prohibited materials online. His case marks the fifth known instance of this statute being applied in Russia and the second in Chechnya.