The 3.5 year sentence for Nikita Zhuravel will be appealed to a higher authority. This was stated by lawyer Yulia Antonova. She considers the decision of the Visaitovsky District Court of Grozny incorrect, since the actions of the defendant, found guilty of burning the Koran, cannot be classified as a set of crimes.

The Golovinsky District Court of Moscow found Oleg Orlov, co-chairman of the Memorial human rights project, guilty of “repeated discrediting” of the army under Part 1 of Art. 280.3 CC. He was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in a general regime colony.

A court in Grozny sentenced 19-year-old Nikita Zhuravel to 3.5 years in a general regime colony. He was found guilty of burning the Koran.

An attempt to enter Georgia and request political asylum for Russian activist and head of the non-governmental organization Frame Maxim Ivantsov was unsuccessful. He linked the actions of the Georgian authorities with the collection of signatures in support of the nomination of Boris Nadezhdin as a presidential candidate in Russia.

Turkey is ready to open the border with Armenia only if it resolves all issues with Azerbaijan. This was stated by the head of the Turkish-Azerbaijani interparliamentary friendship group Shamil Ayrim at an event in Ankara.

A deputy from the ruling party of Armenia, Gurgen Melkonyan, commented on Zelensky’s possible visit.

Opposition politician Alexei Navalny was killed in a colony to prevent his exchange for alleged Russian intelligence officer Vadim Krasikov, sentenced to life in Germany. This was announced by the head of the International Anti-Corruption Foundation, Maria Pevchikh. Let us remind you that Krasikov was found guilty of the murder of the former Chechen field commander Zelimkhan Khangoshvili.

The decision of Stalin, Beria, Molotov, Voroshilov and other members of the USSR State Defense Committee on mass deportations of the peoples of the North Caucasus and other regions of the country on the basis of nationality violated the Soviet Constitution and the Criminal Code. A resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, Oleg Kelemetov, reported this in his statement to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

Chechnya and Ingushetia sell the least amount of alcohol per capita. The figures are less than 0.1 liters and 0.6 liters of alcohol stronger than 25 degrees per person, respectively. These are the findings of a study by the audit and consulting network FinExpertiza.

Cases of denial of re-entry into Georgia to Russian political activists and human rights defenders who have been living in this country since the beginning of the SVO are causing increasing concern. This was stated by the director of the Free Russia Foundation in the South Caucasus, Egor Kuroptev.