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A resident of the Volgograd region, suspected of passing information about the deployment of Defense Ministry units to Ukrainian intelligence, has been taken into custody.

Workers cleared a road to three villages in the Tsumadinsky district, which was blocked after a rockfall.

The wife of convicted journalist Polad Aslanov in Azerbaijan was denied access to him and was only allowed to speak on the phone for a few minutes. She filed a complaint with the human rights ombudsman.

Last night, the military shot down drones in the Verkhnedonsky district of the Rostov region. According to the governor, there were no injuries.

In the Dagestani village of Kidero, a mudflow cut off the road to the district hospital.

When a drone crashed in Primorsko-Akhtarsk, two commercial buildings, one administrative building, and a private home were damaged.

The court sentenced four residents of Rostov-on-Don to terms ranging from 13 to 20 years, finding them guilty of setting fire to two transformer substations and attempting to set fire to a main oil pipeline.

Prime Minister Pashinyan's Civil Contract party is using the threat of war as a fear factor in the parliamentary elections, while his rivals—Karapetyan's Strong Armenia, Kocharyan's Armenia bloc, and Tsarukyan's Prosperous Armenia—are using the threat of severing economic ties with Russia.

Authorities are reporting normal air quality in Tuapse amid a fire at an oil depot near the port. Meanwhile, city residents are publicizing the aftermath of the "oil rain," declaring an environmental disaster.

FSB officers have accused a Vladikavkaz resident of justifying terrorism, after he had previously come under scrutiny for rehabilitating Nazism.

On the 510th day of continuous protests, protesters on Rustaveli Avenue supported parents' demands for medications for children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The parents themselves decided to spend a second night in a row outside the government building.

The Central Election Commission of Armenia has accepted documents from more than 20 political parties and alliances expressing their intention to participate in the parliamentary elections on June 7. Registration of electoral lists will begin on April 23.

A Kuban resident discovered a drone fragment stained with fuel oil on the seashore. In Tuapse, an environmentalist reported that an "oil rain" occurred amid a fire at an oil terminal.

A Sochi court fined a local resident for publicly displaying Nazi symbols after he posted an image of "Kotolf Kitler" on Telegram.

Zelimkhan Murtazov's brother thanked the human rights activists who helped secure permission for his departure from Kazakhstan and ensured his safe arrival in Armenia.

At the latest hearing in the case of Ingush imam Muhammad Tamaskhanov, witness Alikhan Ozdoyev told the court that he gave false testimony to investigators against the religious figure.

The Krasnodar Regional Court refused to reduce the sentence of Tuapse resident Alexander Maksimenko, who received a prison sentence for inciting violence on ethnic grounds.

After 116 days in the transit zone of Astana airport, defector Zelimkhan Murtazov, a native of Chechnya, was able to leave Kazakhstan. According to his brother, Murtazov managed to fly to Armenia.

Maxim Biryukov was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,764 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

At a court hearing in Baku, the victim acknowledged the lack of evidence of the transfer of funds that human rights activist Rufat Safarov is accused of embezzling. The victim's testimony underscored the inadequacy of the charges, the defense argued.