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The commission assessing the damage caused by the flood in Chechnya has received more than 13,000 applications from residents of the republic for compensation.

Since the powers of Judge Patimat Makhatilova of the Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala were terminated after the collapse of an illegally constructed structure during the flood, the trial of Kurban Dalgatov, who died in a police station, will begin anew and may be delayed.

A young resident of Dagestan who was helping residents of the flooded village of Mamedkala died in a Makhachkala hospital. He suffered a severe head injury during his volunteer work.

One of the victims of the explosion at a fireworks warehouse in Vladikavkaz died in the hospital. The death toll from the incident has risen to three.

Pipes across the riverbed that floods homes in the Makhachkala villages of Gazoraspredelitel and Palmira were laid by local residents themselves during the haphazard development of these areas.

Doctors were unable to save a resident of the village of Shaitli, who suffered multiple injuries after being caught in an avalanche. She is survived by four children.

The period during which the third wave of floods in Dagestan was predicted did not bring worsening weather conditions on the scale observed previously, stated the head of the republic, Sergei Melikov.

Members of the Elbrus High Mountain Rescue Team have been sent to Dagestan to work in flood-affected areas.

Protesters outside the Georgian parliament celebrated the defeat of Viktor Orban's Georgian Dream party in the Hungarian elections on the 502nd day of continuous protests.

Captain Ivan Otrakovsky, who arrived in Dagestan to help flood victims, was released today after three days of administrative detention. He dismissed reports of his detention as lies.

The village of Khosrekh in the Kulinsky District is trapped in a snow blockade at an altitude of over 2,000 meters. The villagers, cut off from the outside world by the inclement weather, are left without electricity or communication.

Security forces reported the arrest of a 46-year-old resident of Novocherkassk, suspected of financing a terrorist organization.

Investigators in Ingushetia have opened a criminal case against the director of a furniture factory, suspected of using illegal migrant labor and forcibly keeping them on the factory floor. He has been arrested by court order.

The director of the water utility in Dagestan's Karabudakhkent district has been detained on suspicion of providing substandard water services, resulting in more than 50 people seeking medical attention for signs of acute intestinal infection.

Sheikhyusuf Kerimov from the Derbent district was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have acknowledged at least 1,894 combatants from Dagestan killed there.

The mother suffered multiple fractures, but the seven-year-old child was not injured.

Two of the wounded are in serious condition.

Imprisoned activist Elvin Nazarov has experienced a sharp increase in pain in recent days, but he is not receiving the necessary medical examination and treatment in the penitentiary institution.

Many social media users considered the photo shoot with a Georgian flag, for which a Sochi resident and her son were deported from Abkhazia, to be a provocation. Other participants in the discussion expressed support for the detained Sochi residents.

Dagestani analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" cited ill-considered development, natural factors, and the deplorable state of hydraulic structures as among the causes of the devastating flood. They also unanimously praised the significant contribution of volunteers in the flood relief effort.