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Two people were detained today in connection with a pre-election bribery case, one of whom is 18-year-old journalist Aram Davtyan from Gyumri. Law enforcement officials conducted searches today at the ARF Dashnaktsutyun office in Gyumri. Supporters of various parties are preparing to pay election bribes in the final days of the campaign, the Anti-Corruption Committee stated.

Gadzhimurad Abdullayev was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 1,961 fighters from Dagestan have been officially recognized as killed.

Sand sifting from the Medical Beach to the Bimlyuk Sanatorium has been completed, the mayor of Anapa announced. Authorities promised to open all beaches by June 1, but commentators noted that most sandy beaches remain closed.

Over 149,000 rubles were raised in three weeks to provide food parcels for Zarema Musayeva in the penal colony. This amount will cover three months of supplies. The fundraising effort is ongoing, and 300,000 rubles are needed to cover the remaining six months.

Rospotrebnadzor (the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing) has identified violations of sanitary and epidemiological regulations at a café in Pyatigorsk, where 30 people were poisoned. The café has been suspended for 80 days.

Residents of the villages of Urma and Khankov-2 in the Slavyansky District were evacuated, as were residents of the village of Zapadny in the Krymsky District due to dam failures. Fifty-six people are in temporary accommodation centers.

A Volgograd resident is accused of collaborating with the Ukrainian armed forces and activating SIM cards used to send mass messages about terrorist threats.

A money transfer to the account of an organization banned in Russia led to the criminal prosecution of a Stavropol resident.

Dmitry Ibneev, Artur Kachkanyan, and three of their fellow countrymen from the Tuapse region were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have named at least 849 Kuban soldiers killed there.

The Rostov Garrison Military Court suspended proceedings in the case of the commander of the special forces of the Ministry of Defense of South Ossetia, Shalva Gabaraev, and he returned to the combat zone in Ukraine, accused of attempted murder and hooliganism.

Despite the official opening of the resort season, many beaches in the Tuapse district are not ready for safe recreation: the storm washed ashore with large amounts of debris and complicated the cleanup of oil spills, according to local residents, activists, and environmentalists.

A court in Adygea has sentenced in absentia a resident of the republic suspected of involvement in two terrorist organizations banned in Russia.

Gagik Tsarukyan, leader of the Prosperous Armenia Party and former MP, has filed a lawsuit against Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan for the protection of his honor, dignity, and business reputation.

Supporters of Georgia's European integration protested for the 553rd day in a row. Those opposed to the government's policies also gathered outside the Constitutional Court in Batumi. Parents of children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy secured a meeting with the country's prime minister, but continued their protest demanding that their children receive medication.

Forcing public sector workers to participate in primaries has become commonplace throughout Dagestan. Promises of financial payments to voters, as reported by an activist from DagOgni, are an attempt by non-systemic candidates to circumvent administrative resources. A total of 207,000 people participated in the republic's primaries.

Armenia's Anti-Corruption Committee has opened a criminal case against blogger Mikael Badalyan, who promised Armenian citizens living in Russia favors in exchange for participation in the upcoming National Assembly elections.

In the village of Krasyukovskaya in the Rostov region, local residents recorded a video message to the head of the Russian Investigative Committee asking him to stop the development of a sand quarry that could leave them without drinking water.

Residents of three settlements in the Krymsk district of Krasnodar Krai are being evacuated due to the partial overflow of the Kuban River over a dam near the village of Zapadny.

A fundraising campaign was launched on Telegram to install oil-repellent nets on the beaches of the Tuapse village of Tyumensky. The required sum, 80,000 rubles, was raised in less than a day.

Moscow's Savelovsky Court sentenced Alexander Ablaev, former head of the Krasnodar Ministry of Internal Affairs duty unit, to five years in prison for allegedly accepting bribes from journalists at the online publication "Baza."