A court in Vladimir refused to release Crimean Tatar journalist Amet Suleymanov, sentenced to 12 years, from prison for health reasons. He needs a heart valve replacement and is also suffering from shortness of breath, lung pain, leg swelling and high blood pressure.

Four months before the parliamentary elections in Georgia, representatives of the non-governmental sector founded the political movement “Freedom Square”. Its leader was Levan Tsutskiridze, who was a prominent figure during the protests against the law on foreign agents.

27-year-old Khamzat Kadyrov, the nephew of Ramzan Kadyrov, became the new head of the Chechen Security Council. Previously, he held the position of advisor-assistant to the head of Chechnya.

The chief mufti of Dagestan, Akhmed-haji Abdulaev, said that the republic’s muftiate is preparing a religious decision (fatwa) to ban the niqab. He spoke about this at a meeting of representatives of civil society and religious communities with the participation of the head of Dagestan Sergei Melikov in Makhachkala.

Yesterday's procession of Georgian football fans to the stadium in Cologne before the meeting with Spain in the 1/8 European Championship was again accompanied by shouts of “Putin - x..lo!” They had also previously chanted the slogan in the stadium during other matches.

The tax service has seized the accounts of ex-champion of the Fighting Championship (UFC), a native of Dagestan, Khabib Nurmagomedov due to a debt of 297 million rubles, Mash reports. Previously, the Federal Tax Service closed several of his companies due to false information in official papers. His account was blocked along with the charity fund's account.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that he does not consider it advisable to hold a referendum to join the European Union. Because the people of Armenia “have European aspirations.”

Ingushetia and Karachay-Cherkessia became outsiders in the ranking of regions of the Russian Federation in terms of population income. Here the ratio of average income to the cost of a fixed set of goods and services is 1.1. These are the data of RIA Novosti.

In Makhachkala, residents protested due to power outages. According to them, there has been no light in their homes for three days, and officials are not solving the problem.

A criminal case was opened against a 30-year-old resident of the village of Arkhonskaya (North Ossetia) Georgy G. for public calls for terrorism (Part 1 of Article 205.2). The reason was a spoiled ballot in the Russian presidential elections in March of this year.