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2,485,851 people are included on the voter lists, including 5,239 police officers who have been dispatched to polling stations. The Migration and Civil Service departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Armenia will accept applications for inclusion on additional lists on the day of the parliamentary elections.

Security forces in Armenia have detained Artur Astoyan, a member of the political council of the "Country for Life" party. The party leader claimed the arrest was politically motivated.

Kirill Mukhtarov was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,803 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

A fire broke out at an oil depot in Ust-Labinsk after a drone attack. Sixty people were evacuated from nearby homes. Rospotrebnadzor (the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing) urged residents to keep their windows closed and stay indoors.

The Central Election Commission has authorized the criminal prosecution of six parliamentary candidates from the Strong Armenia bloc suspected of money laundering and voter bribery.

Last night, drones were shot down over Russian regions, as well as in Abkhazia and over the waters of the Azov and Black Seas, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.

An Armenian court has remanded former Education Minister and Republican Party Deputy Chairman Armen Ashotyan in custody on charges of money laundering and abuse of office. The former president's supporter was arrested following the Republican Party's withdrawal from the parliamentary elections.

Last night, the military shot down drones in the Millerovsky District. According to the governor, there were no injuries.

The court dismissed Sochi resident Alexander Batalin's claim to invalidate the sale of a neighboring garden plot to a woman seeking to have a road built through Batalin's property. The judge disregarded the argument that the neighboring plot had previously been sold under a power of attorney from the deceased owner.

Workers cleared a road to a village in the Kurakhsky district, which had been without transport links since May 25 after the river's water level rose.

A court in Yoshkar-Ola has placed journalist Alexei Seregin*, who was detained the day before for a comment about Dzhokhar Dudayev, in pretrial detention.

Authorities have not recorded any further threat of flooding in the Slavyansky district of Kuban, as a result of which 17 evacuated residents of two villages have returned home.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia filed a lawsuit demanding the cancellation of the privatization of the Ararat Cement enterprise, which belongs to the leader of the Prosperous Armenia Party, Gagik Tsarukyan.

The prosecutor's office has charged a cosmetologist from Dagestan who performed liposuction in 2023, after which a client developed complications that caused serious harm. Another victim is also involved in the case.

The overwhelming majority of Armenians surveyed by the "Caucasian Knot" have confidently decided who they will vote for in the June 7 elections. Russia's recent political moves have strengthened the convictions of both pro-Russian and pro-Western voters.

There will be no abrupt rupture in Armenia's economic relations with Russia. The European Commission president's announcement of support for a 50 million euro support package is a purely political gesture, but such gestures will continue in the future.

The Central Electoral Commission of Armenia rejected the appeal of the Republic Party, which demanded the cancellation of the registration of Samvel Karapetyan's political party in the parliamentary elections.

Protesters on Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi, marking the 555th day of uninterrupted protests, called on the Georgian Dream party to resign. An Iranian opposition figure, facing deportation to his homeland, was able to leave for a third country.

Residents of the city of Prokhladny in Kabardino-Balkaria stated that utility services are failing to fulfill their responsibilities, and appeals to authorities are yielding no results.

Senior Lieutenant Naran Ochir-Goryaev was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 228 combatants from Kalmykia have been officially recognized as killed in Ukraine.