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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.

The court sentenced Ivan Blagodatskikh, Ilya Kudinov, and Akhmed Ramaldanov to terms ranging from 8 to 10 years, finding them guilty of attempting to set fire to a military enlistment office in Rostov-on-Don. The testimony of a secret witness played a key role in the case.

Some social media users, including commenters with Ukrainian and Georgian surnames, responded with glee to the news that a fighter from South Ossetia had been killed in the SVO zone. Their opponents expressed condolences to the family and called for humanity.

350 tons of grain from Russia were shipped via Azerbaijan to Armenia. Since the start of shipments, 24,000 tons of grain have been transported to Armenia via Azerbaijani railways.

Only 5,293 people have received payments following the flooding in Dagestan, although 218,217 applications for various types of payments have already been submitted. 557 people remain in temporary accommodation centers.

Second-grade sand is being used to fill Anapa's beaches, a representative of the supplier company reported. This sand cannot serve as a full-fledged replacement for the sand previously removed from the beaches, according to social media users.

The prosecutor requested a 12-year prison sentence for the former head of the Ingush branch of the Social Insurance Fund, Yakub Belkhoroev, for embezzlement of budget funds, and for his relatives, who illegally received payments, to sentences of 3 to 4 years.

The Moscow City Court rejected the appeals and upheld the decision to confiscate the property of former Supreme Court judge Viktor Momotov and his partner, Andrei Marchenko, for state use.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced Vadim Abdullaev to 14 years in prison for participating in the Islamic State* terrorist organization and inciting a terrorist attack at a school in Makhachkala.

The Tbilisi City Court sentenced former Georgian Defense Minister Juansher Burchuladze to 10 years in prison on charges of corruption and money laundering.

Rasul Lukmanov from the Kazbekovsky district was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have acknowledged at least 1,900 combatants from Dagestan killed there.

Nineteen political forces, including 17 parties and two blocs, have submitted a full package of documents to participate in the April 7 parliamentary elections, the Central Election Commission of Armenia reported.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called the burning of the Turkish flag by ARF Dashnaktsutyun activists in Yerevan "clearly provocative behavior." Official Yerevan has no practical influence on the process of normalizing relations with Turkey, according to the ARF leadership.

The open fire in the port of Tuapse has been extinguished, the Kuban emergency response center reported on the evening of April 23. Tuapse residents called on the authorities to switch all schoolchildren to distance learning. Children are particularly vulnerable to the effects of toxins released into the atmosphere following the oil fire, the scientist noted.

The Immortal Regiment march in Kabardino-Balkaria will not take place for security reasons. As with last year, authorities have proposed using an online format for the event.

The state prosecutor has requested a 23-year sentence in a maximum-security penal colony for Sergei Kibalnikov, who is accused of murdering federal judge Vasily Vetlugin.

Participants in the protest on Rustaveli Avenue, on the 512th day of continuous protests, demanded the release of political prisoners and the purchase of medications for children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

A knife-wielding man seriously injured two doctors in the emergency room of the Republican Clinical Hospital in Makhachkala. The attacker fled the scene but was apprehended by police a short time later.

Participants in a torchlight procession in Yerevan, timed to coincide with the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, burned the Turkish flag.