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Nineteen political forces, including 17 parties and two blocs, have submitted a full package of documents to participate in the April 7 parliamentary elections, the Central Election Commission of Armenia reported.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called the burning of the Turkish flag by ARF Dashnaktsutyun activists in Yerevan "clearly provocative behavior." Official Yerevan has no practical influence on the process of normalizing relations with Turkey, according to the ARF leadership.

The open fire in the port of Tuapse has been extinguished, the Kuban emergency response center reported on the evening of April 23. Tuapse residents called on the authorities to switch all schoolchildren to distance learning. Children are particularly vulnerable to the effects of toxins released into the atmosphere following the oil fire, the scientist noted.

The Immortal Regiment march in Kabardino-Balkaria will not take place for security reasons. As with last year, authorities have proposed using an online format for the event.

The state prosecutor has requested a 23-year sentence in a maximum-security penal colony for Sergei Kibalnikov, who is accused of murdering federal judge Vasily Vetlugin.

Participants in the protest on Rustaveli Avenue, on the 512th day of continuous protests, demanded the release of political prisoners and the purchase of medications for children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

A knife-wielding man seriously injured two doctors in the emergency room of the Republican Clinical Hospital in Makhachkala. The attacker fled the scene but was apprehended by police a short time later.

Participants in a torchlight procession in Yerevan, timed to coincide with the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, burned the Turkish flag.

Ayshat Khizrieva, a native of Chechnya who was the subject of an attempted kidnapping in Novosibirsk, has urgently fled Russia. She thanked everyone who publicized her case.

The court sentenced Yashar Gasimov, an activist with the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, to five days' detention on charges of petty hooliganism. The charge was filed against Gasimov after he shared a video of a rural school in disrepair on social media.

Krasnodar police warned activist Yana Antonova against participating in protests marking the arrival of Patriarch Kirill.

Ingushetia's investigative authorities have completed their investigation into a local resident's involvement in an armed group, illegal possession of weapons, and supplying food to Amirkhan Gurazhev's group.

Aishat Khizrieva fled Chechnya due to domestic violence and did not seek evacuation assistance. An attempt to return her to her family could be repeated, and nothing is known about the police's actual actions to protect her, human rights activists stated.

A court in Nalchik sentenced Valery Gorbashchenko to five years in prison, finding him guilty of leaving his unit without permission during mobilization.

The ongoing fire at the Tuapse marine terminal poses a danger to residents due to the release of combustion products, which are carcinogenic and toxic. Environmentalists emphasized that the "black rain" that fell in Tuapse reduced the level of harmful substances in the air but led to soil contamination.

Former head of the Rostov-on-Don Department of Internal Affairs, Sergei Shpak, demanded bribes from the Pokrovsky concern for protection. Shpak pleaded not guilty during a court hearing in the Pervomaisky District Court of Rostov-on-Don.

The arrest of Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, accused of plotting to seize power in Armenia, has been extended for two months.

Krasnodar activists have announced a petition drive to Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus', who, according to unofficial reports, will lay the foundation stone for a cathedral on Rozhdestvenskaya Embankment on April 25. They are asking the Patriarch to reconsider his decision to build the church.

Water has been pumped out of all homes and properties in Dagestan and Chechnya. In Dagestan, 522 people remain in temporary shelters, according to rescuers.

Armenian law enforcement has no complaints against Chechen native Zelimkhan Murtazov, who arrived in Yerevan after four months in the transit zone of Astana Airport. However, his family and human rights activists believe it is premature to assume he is safe.