Chechnya's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, is part of the Russian delegation at the talks between the presidents of Russia and the United Arab Emirates in the Kremlin, the only head of a Russian region, TASS reports.

An independent investigation by InFact has revealed that Russian tankers, resorting to roundabout routes, systematically use the Georgian ports of Batumi and Poti to transport oil. This sanctions-evasion scheme utilizes vessels with opaque ownership structures and problematic insurance, allowing Russia to undermine the international price cap mechanism.

The FSB's Public Relations Center has released a video of the murder scene of two Dagestani residents in the Karabudakhkent district.

Ullubiy Khanmurzayev, the former head of Dagestan's Buinaksk district and accused of fraud, has ended his week-long hunger strike in a Makhachkala pretrial detention center. Investigators reportedly suspect him of organizing the fictitious employment of his common-law wife, who lives in Dubai, as a teacher-psychologist at two local schools.