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Over the past 24 hours, more than 400 people, including two groups of Russian citizens, were evacuated from Iran to Azerbaijan via the Astara checkpoint. One of the groups of Russian citizens departed from Lankaran Airport for Moscow on an Emergencies Ministry plane.

The premiere of a film about journalist and politician Yuri Shchekochikhin took place in Moscow. Attendees praised his work both as a journalist and in politics, noting his integrity and commitment to investigating high-profile cases, including those in Chechnya.

A court in Bataysk sentenced Araz Guseinov, found guilty of attacking a Wagner PMC fighter in 2023, to 10 years in a maximum-security prison colony.

Ramzan Kadyrov reported on the dispatch of a new group of graduates from the preparatory course at the Russian Special Forces University to the war zone in Ukraine.

A homemade plaque in memory of Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya, installed on the facade of her home on the night of March 3, was destroyed in less than 24 hours.

An apartment building was damaged by a drone in the Traktorozavodsky district of Volgograd, with five injured requiring medical attention. The mayor's office arranged for the evacuation of the building's residents to a temporary shelter.

Major repairs to the water supply network in Karabulak, Ingush, where residents have been complaining for years about serious problems with the water supply, have not been completed by the contractor whose company received over 160 million rubles from the budget.

On the 461st day of continuous protests on Rustaveli Avenue, activists congratulated the mothers of political prisoners on Mother's Day, which is celebrated in Georgia today.

The prosecutor's office in Dagestan's Karabudakhkent district has secured a strict pretrial detention order for the director of a child care center in the village of Paraul, where children were poisoned by carbon monoxide.

Igor Sivirin from the Salsky District was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 867 combatants from the Rostov Region have been officially recognized as killed.

The Stavropol Krai Prosecutor's Office has discovered that former Deputy Head of the Stavropol Administration Denis Kravchenko possesses property worth 20 million rubles, which he acquired while serving in municipal service.

Investigators have opened a criminal case against a Nevinnomyssk resident for financing extremist activity.

Kazbek Tokmayev from the Prigorodny district was killed in the North Ossetian Military District. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 561 fighters from North Ossetia have been officially recognized as killed.

The Rostov Regional Court sentenced blogger Sergei Kaplienko to five years in a general regime penal colony for his video and comments about the attack on a city shopping center.

Dagestan native Askhabali Alibekov, known in the blogosphere as the "Wild Paratrooper," was released from a prison colony in Adygea after serving time for assaulting a police officer.

Businessman and former Russian presidential candidate Umar Dzhabrailov was buried in his ancestral village of Novye Atagi in the Shali district of Chechnya.

The head of the Rostekhnadzor department in Kabardino-Balkaria failed to oversee the rectification of violations in the operation of the Elbrus cable car, where three people died in September 2025.

Unidentified civilians abducted Konstantin Rachkovsky, a Russian citizen who had requested asylum in Georgia, from the village of Martkopi, where a migrant camp is located, by car. Within hours, he was deported to Armenia, while Rachkovsky's wife remained in Georgia.

A court sentenced a Dagestani resident to 13 years in prison after finding him guilty of attempting to create an illegal armed group and recruiting acquaintances, including two teenagers, into it.

A court in Krasnodar found Dmitry Korchagin guilty of the death of detainee Ilya Afrosin. The former security officer was sentenced to six years in prison, although the prosecutor had requested an 11-year sentence.