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Investigators convinced a court in Slavyansk-on-Kuban to extend the house arrest of Hieromonk Ilya Sigida, who is accused in a criminal case. A parishioner of the church where Sigida lives reported a search of her home.

Last night, military personnel shot down drones in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Donetsk, and three districts of the Rostov region.

South Ossetian border guards expelled Georgian citizen Gela Berianidze from the republic after he crossed the border in the Leningor district the day before.

One of the leaders of the Georgian opposition, Giorgi Vashadze, who was sentenced to seven months in prison for failing to appear at a meeting of a parliamentary commission, was released from Rustavi Prison.

Pavel Trunov, one of the heads of the power grid, who was convicted in the case of the fire on Teatralny Spusk in Rostov-on-Don, was unable to appeal the verdict.

A court in Cherkessk extended the pretrial detention of 29 defendants in the case of embezzlement of funds from the Russian Pension Fund until April 30, including Magomed-Bashir Kalimatov.

A military court in Nalchik sentenced a serviceman named Wilhelm to 21 years in prison for raping one woman and beating another while absent from his military unit without leave. The woman later died from her injuries.

In a statement about 11 displaced persons, Armenia's Minister of Labor and Social Affairs referred to Nagorno-Karabakh as Azerbaijani territory. Karabakh refugees called the official's language unacceptable to the forcibly displaced persons.

The court overturned the acquittal of Gagik Ambartsumyan, Zhora Avetisyan, and Mesrop Yesayan, who were arrested during a protest outside the Armenian Foreign Ministry in May 2024. The case has been sent back for a new trial.

Supporters of Georgia's European integration, who gathered outside the parliament building on Rustaveli Avenue for the 422nd day in a row, called the arrests of demonstrators for standing on the sidewalk an unprecedented violation of human rights.

The Sunzha administration and the Ingushetia Central Regional Center responded to complaints from Sunzha residents, who reminded the authorities of their unfulfilled promise to eliminate the landfill.

The Khazar District Court in Baku sentenced activist Kenul Akhmedova to 20 days in jail for disseminating prohibited information on social media.

Saidbeg Abdulmalikov from Khasavyurt was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have officially acknowledged at least 1,781 Dagestani servicemen killed there.

Fifty asylum seekers from Dagestan, Chechnya, and Ingushetia, held in the Ezevo immigration prison in Croatia, have gone on hunger strike to protest gross violations of their rights.

A court in Kuban has fined former police officers Andrei Kolontaevsky and Alexander Moiseenko for abuse of power and large-scale bribery. According to the court, the officers demanded ammonium nitrate as a bribe.

Repairs to apartments damaged by a recent drone attack in the Takhtamukaysky District of Adygea are planned to be completed within five weeks, according to the head of the republic, Murat Kumpilov.

Amid the ongoing discussion of his car accident in Grozny, Ramzan Kadyrov's third son, Adam, posted a story on his Instagram account featuring a monologue from the series "Game of Thrones" and music by Chechen bard Timur Mutsuraev.

Ramzan Kadyrov would like to see his third son, Adam, as his successor, but in reality, neither Adam nor the other sons of the head of Chechnya have received guarantees from the Kremlin that would allow them to claim power in the republic.

The Supreme Court of Ingushetia has changed the pretrial detention measure for former Deputy Chief of the 2nd Department of the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs Ibragim Chaniev from house arrest to pretrial detention in a case involving abuse of power and drug possession.

Activists have restored for the fourth time a memorial plaque on the Moscow building where journalist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered.