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British citizen and English teacher Kuldip Singh was expelled from Abkhazia after being accused of espionage. Social media users pointed out the lack of evidence for the accusations.

The Nalchik Garrison Military Court sentenced serviceman Alexander Pavlyukov to nine years in a maximum-security penal colony for fraud against wounded soldiers, whom he promised evacuation from the front lines for money.

Several hundred employees of Rustavi Azot have declared a strike in the city of Rustavi. The employees are demanding higher wages, otherwise they have vowed to engage in continuous protests and paralyze the work process.

Khadizhat (Karina) Ramzanovna Kadyrova is the second daughter of Ramzan Kadyrov and a Chechen statesman. Since 2024, she has served as First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Chechen Government and Head of Administration.

Ernest Khachaturov questions the forensic examination findings, which identified heart disease as the cause of his son Alexander's death in the SVO zone. He is demanding a re-examination. According to his fellow soldiers, Alexander Khachaturov was killed in action.

Investigative Committee Chairman Alexander Bastrykin has opened a criminal case against Valery Sluka, a retired judge of the Sochi Central District Court. The case involves seven counts of mismanagement of municipal land plots in Sochi.

Ullubiy Khanmurzaev, the former head of the Buinaksk district and a suspect in fraud, ended his week-long hunger strike in Makhachkala's Pretrial Detention Center No. 1. According to investigators, he instructed local school directors to fictitiously employ his common-law wife.

A court in Krasnodar reduced the sentence of 54-year-old teacher Irina Kostrova by two months. She was convicted of using a Nazi-era propaganda poster on social media. She will now serve one year and four months in a penal colony.

Old fuel oil emissions and nets left over from washed-out protective embankments have been discovered on the shores of Anapa and the Temryuk district, volunteers reported.

Journalist Nurlan Gahramanli, who is on a hunger strike, reported that his blood pressure had risen. Only after Gahramanli's lack of assistance became public did prison doctors come to him.

Mikhail Turobov and Sergei Timokhin have been killed in combat since the start of the military operation in Ukraine. At least 1,648 fighters from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

Law enforcement sources reported a shootout in which two unidentified individuals were killed after allegedly opening fire on law enforcement officers. However, there are no visible signs of a shootout in the photos of the car the victims were traveling in.

The Sunzha authorities' sluggish response to residents' complaints about an illegal dump has drawn federal attention to the problem and created an "uncontrollable reputational risk," the head of the regional control center complained to the Ingush government. This discussion came amid a statement by an Interior Ministry general that unresolved housing and utilities issues are fueling protest activity.

This morning, the military shot down two drones in the Astrakhan region and one in the Krasnodar region.

Two criminal cases have been opened in connection with the prolonged water outage in homes of residents of Gukovo, Zverevo, and several villages in the Rostov region. Investigators stated that officials failed to promptly address the emergency and committed violations in water delivery.

Authorities have received approximately 1,000 requests for financial assistance from residents of houses damaged in the airstrike in Novaya Adygeya. Twenty-five people are currently being held at a temporary shelter.

Last night, 24 drones were shot down in the Krasnodar Krai, four in the Astrakhan Region, and one each in the Rostov and Volgograd Regions. Another nine drones were destroyed over the Sea of ​​Azov and the Black Sea.

Today, members of 20 Azerbaijani families who fled the village during the Karabakh conflict returned to the village of Khorovlu in the Jabrayil region.

Authorities in the Sredneakhtubinsky District presented awards to the relatives of soldiers killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,646 soldiers from the Volgograd Region have been officially recognized as killed.

As a result of the drone attack, two houses in the village of Svobodny and two in the village of Severskaya were damaged.