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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.

Oil spill responders in Tuapse scoop out buckets of thick fuel oil that spilled into the Black Sea after booms burst. Kuban authorities previously attributed the leak to heavy rains, making no mention of a breach.

Mukhtar Gadzhiev from Khasavyurt was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have acknowledged at least 1,902 combatants from Dagestan killed there.

Participants in the protest outside the Georgian Parliament, on the 513th day of daily protests, marched to the government chancery building, where a protest by parents of children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy has been underway for five days.

Lump sum payments to World War II veterans and equivalent categories of citizens in Azerbaijan have been increased by presidential decree. The assistance will reach approximately 2,000 people, including 13 direct participants in the war, and will be transferred before Victory Day.

A local emergency has been declared in the Yuzhnenskoye rural settlement of the Belorechensky District of Krasnodar Krai due to heavy rains and rising water levels. At least 40 residential areas are flooded.

State Duma deputy from Chechnya Shamsail Saraliev announced the latest prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine, expressing special thanks to Ramzan Kadyrov.

The North Ossetian Investigative Committee has opened criminal cases against former Deputy Prime Minister Larisa Tuganova and her son. They are suspected of accepting a large bribe and acting as an intermediary in bribery.

The fire at the Tuapse sea terminal, which was caused by a drone attack on Monday night, has been completely extinguished, according to regional governor Veniamin Kondratyev.

Oil spilled into the sea and onto the beach in Tuapse after booms failed, the emergency response center reported. Social media users expressed regret over the damage to nature and animals as a result.

A Moscow court has arrested Semyon Slepakov*, a singer and comedian from Stavropol Krai, in absentia on charges of evading his duties as a foreign agent.

Sagidadam Kurbanov from the Botlikh district was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have acknowledged at least 1,901 combatants from Dagestan killed there.

A Tbilisi court has ruled inadmissible the second lawsuit filed by Netgazeti and Batumelebi founder Mzia Amaglobeli against Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, who demanded that statements made by the head of government about her be declared false.

The defense stated that there are no grounds for prosecuting convicted political scientist Azer Gasimli's wife, Samira, on charges of libel and insult and proposed transferring the case to the court in her client's place of residence. Gasimli believes the prosecution is an attempt to stop her activities in support of political prisoners.

The Supreme Court of Russia returned a lawsuit filed by activists regarding the illegal construction of a house on a spruce grove site in Rostov-on-Don to the appellate court. The lawyer called the ruling a favorable outcome. The city residents have been fighting to preserve the spruce trees on the site for several years.