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The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced three Uzbek citizens to 16 to 18 years in prison for plotting a terrorist attack at the Central Market in Georgievsk.

The "Patient Monitor and Housing and Utilities" project has identified 16 streets and areas in Makhachkala where residents have already contacted them regarding denials of payments following the flooding. Social media users believe the denials are widespread.

Repatriate Albert Ivanov had to go to court after he was repeatedly denied an Abkhaz passport, a document that, according to the law and the Constitution of Abkhazia, he, as an Abaza, has the right to receive.

A Baku court sentenced Russian citizen Alexander Vaysero to four years in prison, finding him guilty of money laundering.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan convicted two local residents of the kidnapping and murder of an eight-year-old schoolgirl in Kaspiysk in 2018. The man was sentenced to life in prison, and his accomplice, a distant relative of the child, was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Krasnodar resident Maria Smelaya agreed to leave custody of the boy's father and was given the right to see her child for a few hours every two weeks. She said the decision was a necessary one: after two years of separation, her son had become attached to his father and no longer recognizes her, and protracted court proceedings are very difficult and expensive.

Krasnodar Krai authorities reported the start of filling the first 3.5-kilometer stretch of Anapa beaches with a 50-centimeter layer of sand in preparation for the resort season. Telegram users noted that the sand resembles clay and risks worsening the beaches' condition.

Khasan Akhilgov and Magomed Bogatyrev were killed in the military operation. Since its beginning, at least 191 fighters from Ingushetia have been officially recognized as killed.

Convicted Karabakh State Minister Ruben Vardanyan demanded that the Armenian government intervene in the fate of Armenian prisoners and asked the ombudsman to visit Azerbaijan with a delegation of prisoners' relatives. Ombudsman Anahit Manasyan declined the visit, citing a lack of authority to protect Armenians outside the country.

Authorities in Dagestan have accepted over 214,000 applications for various types of assistance from residents affected by the floods. Forty-nine homes remain flooded in the republic, and 520 people are in temporary shelters.

Following a landslide, residents of seven villages in the Charodinsky District were left without transportation. The total number of villages blocked in Dagestan has risen to 15.

A resident of the Volgograd region, suspected of passing information about the deployment of Defense Ministry units to Ukrainian intelligence, has been taken into custody.

Workers cleared a road to three villages in the Tsumadinsky district, which was blocked after a rockfall.

The wife of convicted journalist Polad Aslanov in Azerbaijan was denied access to him and was only allowed to speak on the phone for a few minutes. She filed a complaint with the human rights ombudsman.

Last night, the military shot down drones in the Verkhnedonsky district of the Rostov region. According to the governor, there were no injuries.

In the Dagestani village of Kidero, a mudflow cut off the road to the district hospital.

When a drone crashed in Primorsko-Akhtarsk, two commercial buildings, one administrative building, and a private home were damaged.

The court sentenced four residents of Rostov-on-Don to terms ranging from 13 to 20 years, finding them guilty of setting fire to two transformer substations and attempting to set fire to a main oil pipeline.

Prime Minister Pashinyan's Civil Contract party is using the threat of war as a fear factor in the parliamentary elections, while his rivals—Karapetyan's Strong Armenia, Kocharyan's Armenia bloc, and Tsarukyan's Prosperous Armenia—are using the threat of severing economic ties with Russia.

Authorities are reporting normal air quality in Tuapse amid a fire at an oil depot near the port. Meanwhile, city residents are publicizing the aftermath of the "oil rain," declaring an environmental disaster.