The Second Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction in Moscow rejected the appeal of the former co-chairman of the Memorial Human Rights Center Oleg Orlov against his sentence. He, being abroad, asked for permission to participate in the trial via video link.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Russian law enforcement officials failed to act in the case of an attack on a minibus with participants in a press tour on the border of Chechnya and Ingushetia in March 2016. In connection with this, Russia was ordered to pay compensation in the amount of six thousand euros to each injured journalist and human rights activist.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky officially appointed Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, former Russian political prisoner Nariman Dzhelal (Dzhelyalov) as Ambassador to Turkey.

A criminal case has been opened against five residents of Ingushetia under the article on failure to report a crime. According to the investigation, they (including two minors) failed to warn about the planned terrorist attack in the Sunzha church.

Mansur Movlaev, who was put on the wanted list in Russia and fled from the Chechen authorities, was detained in Almaty. It is reported that he had been living in this Kazakh city for the past year and a half.

In 2022-2023, Armenia signed a number of contracts for the supply of weapons with India for a total of over $1.5 billion. France is in second place in terms of purchases in this area ($250 million).

A court in Stavropol sentenced four more participants in the pogrom at Makhachkala airport to 10 years in prison. Arsen Arbuliev, Malik Aliyev, Saidapandi Abdulazizov and Nazhmudin Abakarov were found guilty of mass riots, armed resistance and the use of violence against government officials.

Moscow's Basmanny Court sentenced co-chairman of the movement for the protection of voters' rights Golos Grigory Melkonyants to five years in prison. He was found guilty of organizing the work of an "undesirable" organization.

After the demolition of an ancient Chechen mosque in Aktash-Aukh, Dagestan, the situation is approaching a "volcanic eruption" that has been smoldering for decades. The outraged call it blasphemy, a desecration of their shrines and cultural heritage, covered up by many years of administrative support from the state.
Instead of a Chechen mosque - an Avar parking lot

A criminal case has been sent to the Southern District Military Court against a native of Dagestan, Ibragim Magomedov. He is accused of attacking the republic in 1999 as part of a detachment led by field commanders Shamil Basayev and Khattab.