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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.

The head of Chechnya posted a photo with Senator Suleiman Kerimov from Dagestan, whom he threatened with blood feud amid the Wildberries conflict in the fall of 2024. In the caption, Ramzan Kadyrov called Kerimov his brother.

Investigators suspect two residents of Dagestan of involvement in an organization that studied and distributed extremist materials.

Alikhan Tsakayev was awarded the rank of lieutenant general almost two years after the high-profile arrest of the head of the Chechen Ministry of Emergency Situations in Dagestan and the Investigative Committee's silence on the results of its investigation into the conflict between an official close to Kadyrov and local security forces.

The murder of Malvina Magomedova, whose charred remains were found in Dagestan, was the result of her choice to marry a man with multiple criminal records, several social media users pointed out. Other commenters countered that the habit of blaming the victim distracts attention from the main issue—the killer's responsibility.

The investigation into the collapse of a chairlift on Mount Elbrus, which killed three people in September, has been completed. Eleven passengers on the chairlift also suffered injuries.

Alijadzhi Rabadanov from Kaspiysk was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 1,788 fighters from Dagestan have been officially recognized as killed.

Human rights activists helped a young man from an influential Chechen family avoid reprisals from his relatives by organizing his evacuation from the republic.

Work is underway to install cofferdam piles in the Kerch Strait, while the protective structures themselves have already been installed over the sunken parts of fuel oil tankers. Pumping will begin only after the piles are installed, Rosmorrechflot reported.

Dmitry Dryanin and Pavel Nikeshin were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 685 soldiers from the Astrakhan region have been officially recognized as killed.

Narek Samsonyan, co-author of the "Imnemnimi" podcast, was brought to the Yerevan court hearing in a wheelchair. His defense and the opposition blamed his condition on his imprisonment and a 15-day hunger strike.