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A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Dagestani native Makhach Bashirov to 15 years in prison, finding him guilty of financing ISIS*. Bashirov had previously received a lengthy prison sentence for plotting a terrorist attack in Kislovodsk.

Senior Warrant Officer Nikita Khabibulin from Stavropol Krai was killed at a border post in Belgorod Oblast in an attack by Ukrainian armed forces. Since the beginning of the military operation, authorities have officially named at least 951 soldiers killed in Stavropol.

The exclusion from the Constitution of Kabardino-Balkaria of provisions guaranteeing territorial integrity and inviolability, as well as the powers of the head of the KBR to preserve the republic's territorial integrity, threatens the republic's future, human rights activists stated.

The kidnapping of Mansur Movlaev's family, who faces extradition to Russia, is an attempt to silence him. Fear for the lives and health of loved ones often becomes the main constraint on political activity, but such pressure does not always produce the desired results for the Chechen authorities.

One and a half billion rubles have been paid out to 39,000 residents of Dagestan affected by the flooding. Payments were received by 14.5% of applicants.

An additional 140 votes were added for Prosperous Armenia as a result of the recount. The recount is ongoing at many polling stations, as errors were made, and only five of the 2,005 polling stations have accurate protocols.

Protesters on Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi, marking the 560th day of uninterrupted protests, demanded the release of political prisoners and new elections. The court sentenced 14 defendants in the presidential palace storming case to suspended prison terms after pleading guilty.

The Proletarsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don extended the arrest of Sergei Simonenko, former deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for Krasnodar Krai, who is accused of organizing a murder plot.

Scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Oceanology have documented layers of fuel oil near Dzhemete, along with shellfish and crustaceans stained with it. Beach fill continues in Anapa, but tourists have settled along the entire coastline, bloggers report.

The Cherek District Court of Kabardino-Balkaria sentenced the organizer of the "Sharia Patrol" to four years and three months in prison. The remaining members of the group were sentenced to terms of two years and more.

The prosecutor has decided to lift the pretrial detention order against Artur Osipyan, a refugee from Nagorno-Karabakh who was detained after an argument with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan during a campaign for the Civil Contract party.

A car rammed the gates of a fire station in Grozny, killing two employees and injuring five others. The driver's fate has not been reported, and the Investigative Committee has not announced an investigation or criminal case.

Sirazhutdin Agalarov, Leonard Gasanov, and Elmar Tagiev from the Suleiman-Stalsky district were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, officials have publicly named at least 1,977 Dagestani combatants killed there.

Anastasia Shevchenko* was sentenced in absentia to 17 years in prison. The sentence stemmed from a video in which Shevchenko* talked about donating to Azov.**

A Baku court has extended the arrest of Ali Karimli, head of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, for another five months.

Blogger Arsen Markaryan, sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for Nazi rehabilitation, appealed to the court for a sentence that did not involve actual imprisonment. The prosecutor's office, however, insisted on a harsher sentence.

Residents of the villages of Nizhniy Chiryurt, Gelbakh, and Bavtugay in the Kizilyurt district returned home after experts determined there was no threat to their homes.

A 68-year-old resident of the Baksan district and his associates exerted physical and psychological pressure on other local residents, forcing them to observe religious canons, the Ministry of Internal Affairs stated.

A gas pipeline fire in Dagestan was caused by a leak, authorities said.

Tourists displaying Georgian symbols should face strict measures, including entry bans, local residents stated on Facebook*, commenting on an incident involving a Sochi resident who was walking in Gagra wearing a Panama hat emblazoned with the Georgian flag.