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Police detained journalist Afgan Sadygov, deported from Georgia, while he was obtaining an Azerbaijani internal identity card. He was later released, informed that he was still wanted in the database, and issued the document.

Krasnodar resident Maria Smelaya has only seen her son once since reaching a settlement with her child's father. The visit took place in the presence of her ex-husband, and no further arrangements have yet been made for a location, she said. Courts are failing to address violations by fathers, and enforcing the court's requests for interim measures could have led to a different outcome, human rights activists believe.

A Tbilisi court has sentenced Tamaz Goloev, a student at South Ossetian State University, to two months' pretrial detention on espionage charges. According to the Georgian State Security Service, he was collecting information on law enforcement agencies and strategic infrastructure.

The number of applications for various types of payments following the flood in Dagestan reached 223,166, an increase of 4,949 in the last 24 hours. However, only 5,738 people received assistance.

The cassation court, acting on a motion from the Kabardino-Balkarian Prosecutor's Office, overturned the compensation awards to two victims of the cable car collapse in Nalchik, citing violations of substantive and procedural law. The cases were remanded for retrial.

Concerts featuring Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's band should be considered propaganda events, observers have stated. According to them, instances of public sector workers being coerced into attending the performance in Gyumri have been recorded.

A resident of the Gumbetovsky district, suspected of attempting to murder two doctors at a hospital in Makhachkala, has been taken into custody. According to the Ministry of Health, the condition of the injured has improved.

A drone attack resulted in a fire at an industrial site in the Kotelnikovsky district.

A court in Nalchik sentenced a serviceman who was absent from his unit for more than a year during mobilization to a prison term.

Air pollution from the fire and oil spill in Tuapse affected the industrial zone, and popular hotels are located dozens of kilometers from the port. Tour operators said no decline in resort tour sales is expected.

A landslide damaged a section of road in the Charodinsky district, leaving residents of nine villages without transportation.

More than 1,200 children in Dagestani villages have been transferred to distance learning after five school buildings were deemed unfit for use following the flooding. Authorities have requested 1.5 billion rubles for modular school buildings in Dagestan.

Last night, the military shot down about a dozen drones in the Rostov region. According to the governor, there were no injuries.

Alexander Bozhenkov from the Yelansky District was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,766 soldiers from the Volgograd Region have been officially recognized as killed.

In two days, activists say they collected nearly 500 signatures for a petition to Patriarch Kirill asking him to reconsider the decision to build a church on Rozhdestvenskaya Embankment. They reported attempts by police to obstruct the signature collection process.

A landslide destroyed three houses in the village of Butsra, and two more houses are at risk of destruction.

The Don River crossing in the Ilovlinsky District has become more expensive, with local residents noting that the prices are significantly impacting their budget. Complaints to the authorities have proven futile: the prices will not be reduced, and the bridge's construction has been deemed impractical.

The "Patient Monitor and Housing and Utilities" project identified 14 districts in Makhachkala where residents are being denied compensation following the flooding. Makhachkala residents confirmed that they are being denied payments because the areas where they live are not included in the list of those affected by the emergency.

For over 12 days, Chechen security forces have been holding Belkisa Mintsayeva, who arrived in the republic under pressure from law enforcement officers who threatened to send her brother to the Special Military District. She has not been charged with any crimes and has not been provided with a lawyer.

The court seized property from the family of former Krasnodar Regional Court Chairman Alexander Chernov, worth approximately 900 million rubles, for the benefit of the state.