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At polling station No. 9/51, an electronic system failure paralyzed voting in the Armenian parliamentary elections. Technical problems were observed at some polling stations, the Chairman of the Central Election Commission acknowledged.

Violations of voting secrecy and ballot filling by relatives of voters have been recorded at polling stations in Armenia.

Today, before the opening of polling stations, security forces conducted searches at the headquarters of the Armenia bloc in Gyumri and detained parliamentary candidate Hasmik Sagradyan. Searches were also conducted at the headquarters of the Strong Armenia party.

2,005 polling stations have opened in Armenia for voting in the National Assembly elections.

The military shot down drones in the Millerovsky District. According to the Rostov Region Governor, there were no injuries.

Four Azerbaijani citizens were killed in a drone attack on cargo ships in the Sea of ​​Azov, and a fifth was identified as a Russian citizen. Two of the four injured have already been discharged from the hospital in Yeysk.

Zaruhi Postanjyan, who is representing Gyumri Mayor Vardan Ghukasyan, who was arrested on corruption charges, and his son, stated that statements by Armenia's top officials, including Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, suggest the persecution of her clients is politically motivated.

In Chechnya, Mansur Movlaev's parents were forcibly taken away to an unknown location.

Law enforcement officials fined Andrey Makovozov, a blogger from Anapa, a large sum for filming a video against the backdrop of a convoy of fuel tankers parked along a road in Crimea and publishing it on social media.

In Sochi, debris from a drone fell onto the roadway, and the blast wave blew out the windows of a minibus.

The number of Azerbaijani citizens injured in the drone attack on a cargo ship in the Sea of ​​Azov has reached four, all of whom have been hospitalized in Yeysk. Two are in moderate condition, while the other two are in satisfactory condition.

A march under the slogan "Together Against Violence and Oppression" took place in Tbilisi on the 556th day of daily protests. Before the protest began, activist Tamuna Giorgadze and photographer Levan Zazadze were attacked; according to the activists, they were attacked by an instigator.

The Prosecutor's Office has appealed to the Central Election Commission to open a criminal case and imprison David Kazinyan, a candidate for parliament from the Strong Armenia bloc, who, according to the Anti-Corruption Committee, distributed bribes to voters in Yerevan's Abakir district.

The introduction of the VTB card as a pass at Volgograd State University has sparked outrage among students. The university claims that only the new campus cards grant access to the institution, and students have had to spend significant time in line to obtain the card. Lawyers have deemed the university's actions a violation of the law.

The volunteer headquarters "Volunteers of the SSL" sent booms from Anapa to Tuapse. Volunteers installing booms on the beach in Nebug asked for drinking water, and Telegram users also ordered groceries.

More than 100 voters in the Artashat community received bribes from a Strong Armenia candidate, and 40 were detained, the Investigative Committee announced. A total of 194 people have been detained in connection with election-related cases, the Anti-Corruption Committee reported.

A batch of Strong Armenia ballots was missing from a polling station in the village of Jrapi, Shirak Province. The Central Election Commission called the incident a misunderstanding.

Three officials assured the safety of Anapa's beaches, comparing them to the French Riviera and the sand to that of Thailand. The officials' claims are unsubstantiated, and the prolonged sanding is discouraging tourists, Telegram users commented.

The parents of the woman who died in the Elbrus cable car collapse will receive 3 million rubles in compensation in 2025. Witnesses are being questioned in the criminal case against the director and chief engineer of Pendulum Cable Car LLC.

Failure to appear for a training camp entails criminal liability, the Armenian Prosecutor's Office stated, following reports of summonses being served to voters arriving from abroad.