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The electricity tariff in Dagestan will increase by 11.3% starting October 1, the republican Ministry of Energy reported. Residents of the republic, commenting on the announcement of the tariff increase on social media, complained about rising expenses against the backdrop of low salaries and pensions, and also pointed out regular power outages.

On the first day of voting at polling stations in Elista, many came to vote, residents reported. According to the Kalmykia election commission, turnout exceeded 21%.

Residents of Grozny said that they do not plan to express protest through voting or to refuse to show up at the polling station on election days.

Authorities in Sochi have restricted access to beaches and embankments due to the threat of an attack by unmanned boats.

The safe with filled ballots was found outside the video surveillance zone at the polling station in Gelendzhik, said observer Svetlana Terezhol.

Convicted citizens of Armenia in Azerbaijan are deprived of phone communication and visits with relatives, they are not provided with medical examinations, and their walking time has been reduced, stated the former state minister of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The military shot down drones in Rostov-on-Don and two districts of the Rostov region.

More than 50 Azerbaijani NGOs stated in a joint statement that claims against Baku due to the visit of foreign diplomatic missions to Karabakh hinder the establishment of relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan supported the authorities' version that the Gandzasar Monastery is a monument of Caucasian Albania.

The puppet theater actress Olga Shchekina, who was kidnapped by unknown individuals while leaving a special detention center in Rostov-on-Don, is accused of violating the curfew in Donetsk.

At the polling stations in Sochi, there was varying activity; however, a significant portion of voters voted early, noted members of the precinct electoral commissions. They pointed out that many voters do not see elections as a way to influence what is happening in the country.

Residents of Astrakhan named the main problems in the region and the country as fuel shortages, poverty among the population, and rising prices, while they assessed the prospects for protest voting in the elections skeptically.

Employees of budget institutions in North Ossetia reported that the management is forcing them to participate in the elections and even send photo reports. Some residents believe that protest voting in these elections is impossible, while others are convinced that this is a way to express their dissatisfaction.

In the latest presidential candidate debates in South Ossetia, only Murat Valiev and Kazbek Kodoev participated. Marat Kambolov once again did not show up, and candidate Zurab Kokoev was absent from any of them. The candidates touched on topics of local self-government, preservation of the Ossetian language, and ecology.

At polling stations in Rostov-on-Don, there was a noticeable mass voting by budget employees on the morning of September 18, and the election commission reported a turnout of 25% only in the first half of the day. Residents of the Rostov region, surveyed by "Caucasian Knot", noted electoral apathy and do not believe in protest voting.

Participants of the rallies in Batumi and Tbilisi on the 660th day of protests demanded the release of political prisoners. One of them, doctor Georgy Chakhunashvili, was released today as part of a plea deal with the prosecution.

The Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, stated that he will not allow the activities of state structures of Nagorno-Karabakh on the territory of the country. The authorities of the unrecognized republic intend to start consultations with Armenian parties, while Karabakh activists demand to legally enshrine the status of displaced persons as victims of genocide.

The authorities of Dagestan reported on payments to nearly 89 thousand residents of the republic who were recognized as victims of the flooding. The total amount of payments reached 3.4 billion rubles.

The defense of the two minor sons of the leader of "Muslim Unity" Taleh Bagirzade, accused of beating a schoolgirl, insists on the absence of a crime, but the court rejected the lawyers' petition to dismiss the case. The mother of the teenagers claims that their prosecution has political motives.

The Derbent City Court fined a 40-year-old local resident, finding him guilty of publicly displaying the symbols of an extremist organization.

In Volgograd, the police warned civil activists about the inadmissibility of actions during the elections. At some polling stations in the regional center today, there were queues of budget employees.