Master of Islamic Sciences, Crimean Tatar Vadim Bektemirov, sentenced to 11 years in prison, was transferred to a Russian prison in Yelets (Lipetsk region).

Despite the confession to torture by the security forces and the falsification of the criminal case, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the sentence of a resident of Dagestan, Elnar Amirbekov.

The RIA Rating agency presented the rating of the regions of the Russian Federation in terms of the income level of the population. Dagestan occupies 50th place in it, North Ossetia - 67th. In these republics, 14% of the population is below the poverty line.

“Everyone realizes that the liberation of Crimea is a matter of time,” Refat Chubarov, head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, said in an interview with Radio Liberty.

On June 18, 2001, at about one in the morning, up to 15 Russian military men entered the house on Lenin Street in Shali. They lifted Muslim Rashidov out of bed, who returned from Stavropol only two weeks ago.

In 2022, kindergarten employees in Dagestan received 5.8% less than the average salary in the region. In Karachay-Cherkessia, teachers in schools earned on average 93% of the average salary in the region.

Ukrainian drones attempted to attack the Druzhba oil pipeline in the Bryansk region.
The Center for National Resistance in Ukraine reported that Russian authorities in the occupied territories are putting pressure on the local population, forcing them to receive Russian passports.

On June 17, 2001, at about one in the morning, the Russian military, who arrived in two armored personnel carriers in the village of Karpinsky Kurgan in the Zavodsky district of Grozny, broke into house 1 along Krasnovodskaya street and took away Islam Alievich Dzhansurkaev, born in 1968, and him the same age as Lem Bai-Alievich Kantaev.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don announced the conviction of Ansar Osmanov, an activist of Crimean Solidarity, and sentenced him to 20 years in prison in a strict regime colony.

The Russian Ambassador to Armenia has been summoned to the country's Foreign Ministry. The agency expressed strong dissatisfaction with the involvement of the Russian military contingent in Karabakh in the incident at the Lachin border checkpoint.