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In the elections for the heads of two rural settlements in the Volgograd region, independent candidates won, while in the remaining 24 settlements, candidates from United Russia received the majority of votes.

A court in Nalchik sentenced Alexei Salov to a term in a penal colony, finding him guilty of leaving his unit without permission during mobilization.

Gali Dzhansultanov and Nurzhan Serkaliev were killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 611 fighters from the Astrakhan region have been recognized as killed in it.

Today, members of 32 Azerbaijani families who left the city during the Karabakh conflict returned to Kelbajar.

An armed resident of Khankendi of Armenian origin, Karen Avanesyan, tried to get to the event site in the city, but was stopped by police. He threw grenades at them, opened fire, was wounded and detained, the Azerbaijani Interior Ministry reported.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said his son Adam had received all his awards for specific achievements and called him a "wonderful guy."

Another fire at a landfill in Novorossiysk has been extinguished, according to the authorities, but the garbage continues to smolder, and the wind carries the soot and stench to residential areas. Environmentalists are alarmed by the constant smoldering of the garbage, which puts the health of local residents at risk.

In Armenia, with the support of the EU, the project "Human Rights with Refugees and for Refugees" was launched, the goal of which is to help forced migrants from Nagorno-Karabakh to realize their rights. Public councils are being formed in Yerevan, Gyumri, Dilijan, Yeghegnadzor.

The family of the author of the entertainment blog chokatella faced threats after refusing to post a campaign poster for one of the candidates running in Anapa. Commentators advised her to file a complaint against the author of the threats and make his name public.

According to the first ballot counts, the current governors are leading by a significant margin in the elections in Krasnodar Krai and Rostov Oblast. The precinct commissions managed to count the ballots and draw up protocols in less than half an hour, said Kondratyev's rival, the Communist Party candidate Alexander Safronov.

On the 291st day of protests, pro-European protesters blocked traffic at the Georgian parliament, chanting slogans: "Until the end" and "Fear the power of the people." The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported a criminal case against the leader of the Droa party, Elene Khoshtaria, for damaging Kakha Kaladze's election banner.

Yarash Abdulvagabov was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 1,555 fighters from Dagestan have been officially recognized as killed.

Voting has ended at polling stations located in the south of Russia, voters were choosing governors, city and district council deputies. Over the first two days of the election, the turnout in gubernatorial elections in Kuban and Rostov Oblast was higher than in municipal elections, and multiple violations were recorded there.

A video message calling on precinct election commissions not to violate the law and on the police to ensure fair elections was recorded by candidates, commission members and observers from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in Anapa.

A pig's head was thrown near the mosque of the village of Kozet, the DUM of Adygea and Krasnodar Krai called the incident a provocation and reported an appeal to the police. As follows from the video from the scene, the man who left the pig's head on the fence near the mosque recorded it on his phone.

SVO participant, CPRF candidate Roman Grekhovodov reported interference in the work of observers and signs of falsifications at a polling station in Rostov-on-Don and filed a complaint with the police about violations.

In Novorossiysk, two young men blocked the entrance to the polling station for the candidate for deputy of the city council, Artur May, and let him through only after the intervention of security forces. The candidate filed a complaint with the police about the violation.

Konstantin Ansimov was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,334 fighters from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed in it.

Candidate Alexander Safronov, in a video address to the head of the Central Election Commission and the deputy head of the presidential administration, voiced information about violations at polling stations in Krasnodar Krai and called for preventing the falsification of election results. Authors of comments on Telegram supported his call.

The head of the political council of the United National Movement, Murtaz Zodelava, accused of interfering with the investigation, left the detention center after posting the bail set by the court.