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Human economic activity has altered the climate and precipitation patterns, and existing infrastructure is no longer functional under the new conditions, said Alexey Gunya, head of the Mountain Research Center at the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, commenting on the flooding in Dagestan.

A court in Nalchik sentenced Savarbek Kartoyev to five years in prison, finding him guilty of evading military service during mobilization.

Authorities in Dagestan's Dakhadayevsky District have declared a state of emergency due to a sharp increase in landslides amid heavy rainfall. Eleven homes have already been damaged, and residents of another ten have been evacuated from the danger zone.

Another group of combatants departed from Grozny for the war zone in Ukraine. Before departure, the soldiers praised the Russian Special Forces University and thanked Kadyrov.

Security forces in Vladikavkaz conducted a search of the editorial offices of the Telegram channel "Sapa" this morning. The Investigative Committee reported the arrest of the project's editor-in-chief, Alina Dzhikaeva, and a police officer from Makhachkala.

At a military court hearing in Rostov-on-Don, the state prosecutor requested sentences of 9 to 11 years in prison for Ivan Blagodatskikh, Ilya Kudinov, and Akhmed Ramaldanov, accused of attempting to set fire to a military enlistment office. Journalists have discovered that an FSB informant oversaw the preparations for this arson.

Vladimir Faber and Artem Breusov from the Novoanninsky District were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, officials have publicly named at least 1,755 service members from the Volgograd Region killed in the conflict.

A Baku court has extended the pretrial detention of Azerbaijani lawyer and human rights activist Namizad Safarov for another three months. Safarov's defense team intends to appeal the decision.

An employee of the Mine Action Agency was killed in the Fizuli district. The death toll from mine explosions since the 44-day Karabakh war has reached 422, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry stated.

Today, 102 members of Azerbaijani families who fled during the Karabakh conflict returned to six villages in the Aghdere and Khojaly districts.

The appellate court upheld the decision to seize property worth 1.6 billion rubles from the former mayor of Sochi and transfer it to the state.

Sochi has lost its lead to Anapa in the number of May holiday tour bookings, according to tourism industry representatives. According to them, the situation in Sochi has a greater impact on booking dynamics than the oil spill zone.

349 adults and 181 children evacuated from flood zones in Dagestan are in temporary accommodation centers. 508 residential buildings remain flooded in the republic.

A shipment of 1,298 tons of diesel fuel was exported from Azerbaijan to Armenia. The same train also carried 240 tons of agricultural fertilizer from Russia.

Following the outbreak of hostilities in Iran, 3,505 people were evacuated to Azerbaijan, including 613 Azerbaijani citizens, 374 Russians, and 21 Georgian citizens.

Restrictions on travel on the Transcaucasian Highway between Russia and South Ossetia have been lifted.

A court in Yekaterinburg sentenced the head of the Azerbaijani diaspora, Ural Shahin Shykhlinski, and his son, Mutvala, to prison terms, finding them guilty of using violence against a special forces soldier during his arrest.

Andrey Barannik from the Zhirnovsky district was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,753 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

Participants in the Congress on the National Mobilization of the Armenian Diaspora, held in Paris, expressed the need to mobilize against the current government in Armenia, to protect the Armenian Apostolic Church, and to defend the rights of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh.

Dagestan's high-altitude villages were hit by heavy snowfalls, effectively cutting them off from the outside world. The storm knocked out power, and livestock died due to a lack of feed. However, authorities provided little information about the problems in these remote villages.