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Anapa's beaches need to open now, before tourists buy trips to other resorts, Telegram users commented on the governor's remarks about the need for a full resort season in Anapa and the Temryuk district.

Zalina Yevkurova, who demanded state attention to elders' pressure in custody disputes and state oversight of violations of the rights of mothers separated from their children, raised a pressing issue in Ingushetia and the North Caucasus. The state must not allow religion and tradition to take precedence over the law, human rights activists emphasized.

A military court in Nalchik sentenced Anzor Kulimov to six years in prison, finding him guilty of leaving his unit without permission during mobilization.

Convicted protester Anastasia Zinovkina has been transferred to a closed prison, with her phone calls and visits restricted. Her defense has appealed the decision.

The Kirovsky District Court of Makhachkala has remanded Ullubiy Khanmurzaev, former head of the Buinaksk District of Dagestan, in custody for two months on suspicion of fraud.

Water supply to homes in the Kemping microdistrict of Kaspiysk has been restored, but residents admitted they are buying bottled water out of concern about the poor quality of tap water.

The investigation's theory that the 16-year-old teenager planned to assemble an explosive device to attack security forces in Nalchik does not seem unrealistic. In recent years, numerous minors have been charged with terrorism-related offenses, according to human rights activists and a lawyer.

Due to design violations in a home for the disabled, security forces conducted searches at the home of Maxim Bondarenko, head of the Primorsko-Akhtarsky district, who was attempting to sue a pensioner for 300,000 rubles for comments she made online.

In Baku, the pretrial detention of six women accused of hooliganism and disturbing the peace for distributing food to believers on the day of mourning has been extended. Human rights activists noted that the court imposed an excessively harsh pretrial detention measure and ignored arguments regarding the defendants' children.

A court in Kutaisi sentenced four protesters in Chiatura to prison, finding them guilty of beating a mine director.

The shootout in which security forces killed a Kislovodsk resident was preceded by a counterterrorism operation in early February 2023. At that time, security forces reported the killing of four suspects in the village of Petrovskoye, suspected of plotting a terrorist attack.

Law enforcement officials reported the murder of a Kislovodsk resident suspected of plotting a terrorist attack in Stavropol. According to the FSB, the man offered armed resistance during an arrest attempt.

Unresolved housing and utilities issues are causing discontent among residents of Dagestan and fueling protests, according to the head of the North Caucasus Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Residents of Makhachkala agreed.

Last night, the military shot down two drones in the Volgograd region and the same number in the Astrakhan region.

Investigators need to investigate the possibility that security forces were involved in the death of a detained Novoshakhtinsk resident, human rights activists said. The police's statement that the man resisted arrest contradicted the information provided by the deceased's acquaintance.

According to the prosecution, Yeysk stand-up comedian Artemy Ostanin* "created an organized criminal group to develop and produce derogatory short performances." Unidentified individuals assisted him in writing, filming, and editing his performances.

The military shot down drones in the Chertkovsky, Milyutinsky, Sholokhovsky, Kasharsky, Sovetsky, and Tatsinsky districts.

Villagers in the Dagestani village of Gulli claim that the plant has contaminated the rivers and left a white coating on the trees. The district administration confirmed that the permit for the plant's construction was legally issued.

Students at a Derbent school were playing snowballs when they hit an elderly security guard, who responded by stabbing one of the teenagers in the neck. The guard has been detained, and investigators are conducting an investigation.

Instead of the 78 cans of free baby food she was entitled to, the daughter of a Tuapse couple, Sergei Kartashov and Tatyana Pimenova, received only 39. The prosecutor's office, which the parents contacted, found no violations and advised them to take legal action.