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Captain Ivan Otrakovsky, who arrived in Dagestan to help flood victims, was released today after three days of administrative detention. He dismissed reports of his detention as lies.

The village of Khosrekh in the Kulinsky District is trapped in a snow blockade at an altitude of over 2,000 meters. The villagers, cut off from the outside world by the inclement weather, are left without electricity or communication.

Security forces reported the arrest of a 46-year-old resident of Novocherkassk, suspected of financing a terrorist organization.

Investigators in Ingushetia have opened a criminal case against the director of a furniture factory, suspected of using illegal migrant labor and forcibly keeping them on the factory floor. He has been arrested by court order.

The director of the water utility in Dagestan's Karabudakhkent district has been detained on suspicion of providing substandard water services, resulting in more than 50 people seeking medical attention for signs of acute intestinal infection.

Sheikhyusuf Kerimov from the Derbent district was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have acknowledged at least 1,894 combatants from Dagestan killed there.

The mother suffered multiple fractures, but the seven-year-old child was not injured.

Two of the wounded are in serious condition.

Imprisoned activist Elvin Nazarov has experienced a sharp increase in pain in recent days, but he is not receiving the necessary medical examination and treatment in the penitentiary institution.

Many social media users considered the photo shoot with a Georgian flag, for which a Sochi resident and her son were deported from Abkhazia, to be a provocation. Other participants in the discussion expressed support for the detained Sochi residents.

Dagestani analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" cited ill-considered development, natural factors, and the deplorable state of hydraulic structures as among the causes of the devastating flood. They also unanimously praised the significant contribution of volunteers in the flood relief effort.

According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the number of people taken to temporary accommodation centers in Dagestan increased by 18 in the past 24 hours. 508 residential buildings in the republic remain flooded.

An avalanche buried two houses in the mountain village of Shaitli. According to rescuers, a woman and child were trapped under the snow.

At least 4,435 soldiers from the North Caucasus Federal District and 4,565 from the Southern Federal District have been officially recognized as killed in the military operation in Ukraine.

Residents of the Adilyotarsky village council lost 400 head of cattle, 360 head of sheep and goats, and nearly 30,000 poultry as a result of the flood. Most of the villagers' homes were damaged by the flood, and many remain submerged.

In the Kalachevsky district, awards were presented to the relatives of soldiers killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,752 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

The court sentenced the owner of the warehouse that exploded in Vladikavkaz on April 10, and two organizers of pyrotechnics production, to two months' arrest.

The death of a three-year-old girl as a result of domestic violence is unique to Abkhazia, but human rights activists have documented similar cases. A law is needed that would protect victims of domestic violence, not just document its consequences.

Due to bad weather, all motor vehicle traffic is prohibited on the Transcaucasian Highway.

It's premature to talk about the complete safety of Anapa's beaches, which authorities have declared ready to open for the start of the holiday season. There's no public picture of the state of the environment, and it takes time for the ecosystem to recover.