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Participants in an online discussion about the situation in the Krasnodar Krai tourism industry noted a decline in demand for vacations and declared a crisis in domestic tourism in the country as a whole.

A court in Novorossiysk has seized assets worth 170 million rubles belonging to Dmitry Taksidi, the former deputy head of the Defense Ministry's military construction complex construction department, who is accused of bribery and abuse of power.

Six clergymen of the Armenian Apostolic Church have been summoned to the investigative department as defendants in a criminal case and are banned from leaving the country. The Church has accused the Armenian authorities of interfering in its internal affairs and violating human rights.

Amid escalating tensions between Iran and the United States, negotiations are underway between the authorities of Azerbaijan and Iran. Baku has declared its refusal to use its territory to attack its neighbor, while Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has expressed his readiness to help ease tensions.

Islamudin Sultanov, Samrat Murtuzaliev, and Shamil Suleimangadzhiev were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 1,791 fighters from Dagestan have been officially recognized as killed.

A march against the merger of two major universities, announced as part of education reform, took place in Tbilisi. Participants marched to the Georgian Parliament, where protests against government policies and demanding the release of detained activists have been ongoing for 430 consecutive days.

Some social media users supported Daudov's position that before criticizing tourists for their appearance, they need to improve their own appearance. Others pointed out that tourists are obligated to respect the traditions inherent to the region.

DNA testing has confirmed the death of Andrei Uchkurov, who went to the military operation zone after the court verdict, reported his father, activist Grigory Uchkurov.

Anar Huseynov, an activist with the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, has been sentenced to 30 days in administrative detention on charges of disobeying police and petty hooliganism. The party believes the case against Huseynov is fabricated and politically motivated.

The head of Kabardino-Balkaria reported on the issuance of certificates for new apartments in Nalchik to 124 families relocated from dilapidated housing. Social media users responded to his report with questions about the timeframe for relocation of other families from dilapidated buildings.

The father of Magomedbek Khizbulaev, a conscript from Dagestan who is being treated in Moscow with serious injuries, appealed to Dagestan's parliamentarians to investigate the incident and prevent the matter from being hushed up. Telegram users expressed doubt that the parliamentarians would be able to provide meaningful assistance.

Blogger Yuri Ozarovsky, having discovered old fuel oil spills on the beach near the Mozhepsin River, contacted volunteers and collected five bags of fuel oil in just a few hours. Volunteers can't clean the entire beach themselves, but they can set an example and teach how to clean sand properly, according to the "Net, Sieve, Shovel" headquarters, noting that this is precisely the kind of response they expect to receive.

A court in Derbent has remanded Rajidin Yaraliev in custody until March 27 in connection with the murder of Malvina Magomedova, whose charred and dismembered remains were discovered two days earlier.

Three of the nine patients hospitalized from the village of Novaya Adygeya following the airstrike remain in hospital. Eighteen adults and four children are being held at a temporary shelter.

At a court hearing in Baku, it was revealed that Anar Rahimov, the man Kenan Zeynalov is accused of assaulting, had been cleared of fraud charges shortly before the incident. Zeynalov's fellow party members suggested that this was a condition for Rahimov's participation in a provocation against the opposition leader.

During the closing arguments in the case of Rostov judge Elena Kobleva, accused of accepting a bribe, the prosecutor requested a 10-year prison sentence. For the other two defendants, the prosecution requested seven and nine years in prison.

In the village of Novaya Adygeya, 92 cars were damaged, 27 burned, as a result of an air strike. Authorities announced compensation of up to one million rubles to their owners. VKontakte users debated the extent to which such compensation would cover the damage.

Nikita Kolchenko from the Frolovsky district was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,652 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

Investigators have opened a criminal case in connection with a prolonged heat outage in Volgodonsk. Following a heating main failure, residents of 80 apartment buildings were left without heat for over a day.

A petition by human rights activists calling on Armenian authorities to release the body of murdered Chechen native Ayshat Baimuradova to her friends for burial has garnered 107 signatures.