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The Temryuk District Court sentenced Yuri Sysoev to five years in prison for a social media post. He pleaded not guilty.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled that the criminal prosecution of Azerbaijani activist Elgiz Gahraman (Gahramanov) in a drug case in 2016 was unlawful. The ECHR ordered the Azerbaijani government to pay him compensation in excess of 12,000 euros.

Supporters of Georgia's European integration held their traditional rally outside the parliament building on the 412th day of continuous protests. Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Sadigov burned an effigy of Irakli Kobakhidze during the rally.

A conscript soldier from Dagestan, Magomedbek Khizbulaev, stated in the hospital that he had been beaten, and that his commanders' version of a fall from a tower was inconsistent with the nature of his injuries. His family received information about the incident from a fellow soldier; the military unit did not notify the family.

Aleksandr Sakaniya, a member of the Russian Volunteer Corps* who was involved in selecting candidates for recruitment from Georgia, was sentenced to 19 years in prison in Russia.

An elderly woman died in one of the buildings destroyed in a drone attack in Taganrog, the governor of the Rostov region reported.

A criminal case has been opened in Kaspiysk due to a prolonged water outage. For some residents, normal water service has still not been restored.

A barrier and paid entrance to the Severny bus station in Nalchik are necessary to maintain order on the premises, but free parking will be provided for passengers.

The Tbilisi City Court remanded in custody eleven people accused of organizing riots in Tbilisi during a protest on the day of the municipal elections on October 4.

The father of Khalit Mustafayev, who was killed by security forces during a pursuit in Stavropol in 2020, intends to seek reopening of the case against the security officer in higher courts. He escaped prosecution by going to the front. Mustafayev believes there is a corruption element in the dismissal of the case.

The property and accounts of relatives of Mikhail Nadezhda, former head of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations' Directorate for Kabardino-Balkaria, have been frozen until the end of February in connection with a bribery case.

Oleksandr Gaivoronsky from the Rudnyansky district was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, authorities have named at least 1,621 soldiers killed there.

Chechnya's head of government, Magomed Daudov, reported that 67,440 fighters have been sent to the military operation zone.

After the New Year holidays, queues of patients once again formed at the reception desk of Kaspiysk's only clinic. Telegram users expressed outrage that the problem of Kaspiysk residents' access to free medical care has been unresolved for a long time.

The court found the former senator from Karachay-Cherkessia, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, guilty of attempting to bribe a prison colony employee and ordered him to pay a fine of 120 million rubles.

An early morning airstrike in Taganrog damaged eight residential buildings, six cars, and two industrial facilities. Authorities promised assistance to all victims and declared a local state of emergency in the area.

Andrei Kalinin from the Rudnyansky district was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,620 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

All types of vehicles are prohibited from leaving North Ossetia through the Verkhniy Lars checkpoint due to deteriorating weather conditions in Georgia.

The head of the Akhmat special forces, Apti Alaudinov, suggested that the Ukrainian president's proposed attempt to kidnap the Chechen leader would have failed.

Today, the military shot down seven drones in the Rostov region. In Taganrog, the attack damaged gas pipelines, an industrial facility, as well as residential buildings and cars.