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Azerbaijani actor Akhmed Akhmedov, known for his critical writings about the country's authorities, spent several days in a Baku police station and died.

Residents of the village of Leninkent reported that due to a shortage of space at the local school, they are forced to send their children to schools in Makhachkala. Furthermore, children are forced to cross the dangerous federal highway between Makhachkala and Buynaksk.

Several dozen activists held signs outside the Georgian Special Penitentiary Service building in Tbilisi, demanding medical care for political prisoners Anastasia Zinovkina and Nana Sander. Teacher Nino Datashvili, who also sought medical care in prison, joined the protest.

The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan rejected activist Mohyaddin Orujov's appeal, upholding his three-year sentence in a drug case. His defense intends to appeal the conviction to the ECHR.

Dmitry Belkin was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,639 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

At a Moscow court hearing, the prosecution requested a five-year, 11-month prison sentence and a 300,000-ruble fine for Yeysk stand-up comedian Artemy Ostanin. The maximum sentence under the extremism charge is six years in prison.

The consequences of the water main break in Makhachkala have been cleared and water supply has resumed, the water supply operator reported. Commenters noted that water was still not restored to homes several hours after the announcement.

Law enforcement sources reported that security forces are conducting an investigation into former Kuban Deputy Governor Anna Minkova.

At the court hearing of Azerbaijani human rights activist Rufat Safarov, the victim admitted that he had not undergone a medical examination, despite the investigation file containing a medical report. The victim's testimony further confirmed the theory that the case was fabricated and Safarov's innocence.

A Makhachkala resident has become a suspect in a criminal case involving the torture of a child. According to sources, the suspect is a teacher who beat the student with a belt.

Three Azerbaijani residents have been taken into custody; according to investigators, they were preparing a terrorist attack on a foreign embassy in Baku.

Library and educational institution staff, as well as representatives of Jewish communities in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts, held lectures, meetings, and other informational events to mark Holocaust Remembrance Week.

54-year-old Roman Kilyachkov was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,638 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

Today, members of 20 Azerbaijani families who fled the village during the Karabakh conflict returned to the village of Mamedbeyli in the Zangilan region.

The Ministry of Defense reported the downing of five drones in Kuban, the only region in southern Russia where a drone attack was recorded last night.

Vladimir Zaitsev from the Novoanninsky District was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,637 soldiers from the Volgograd Region have been officially recognized as killed.

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled the liquidation of the "Council of Teips of the Ingush People" in 2020, as well as the fine imposed on its chairman, Murat Daskiev, in 2019, illegal.

In Makhachkala, several districts have been without water for over a day due to a pipeline rupture. The authorities' promised restoration deadlines have long passed, but local residents say there is still no water. They wonder if such accidents are too common in Dagestan.

More than a thousand citizens have signed a statement in defense of the Armenian Apostolic Church, initiated by a group of lawyers and public figures. They called the authorities' actions against the church unconstitutional.

Cossacks from the Rostov and Volgograd regions, as well as the Krasnodar Territory, attended memorial services for the victims of the Decossackization and honored their memory. A requiem concert was held in Volgograd for the victims of Cossack repression.