Ali Batayev, an opponent of the Chechen leadership, has been on hunger strike in a deportation prison in Switzerland for more than a month. He protests against the intention of the country's authorities to deport him to Russia, where he is threatened with torture and death.

The Southern District Military Court replaced two years in a colony with a suspended sentence for a contract soldier from Chechnya Alexei Khan. In March, the Grozny court found him guilty of seven counts of fraud, but a higher court commuted the sentence due to the defendant's participation in the SVO.

The Baku Court has completed consideration of the appeal of the activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan Zamin Salayev. The verdict was upheld.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has registered a draft appeal to Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili and the parliaments of EU countries to pardon Mikheil Saakashvili. The project was initiated by dozens of deputies, including the leader of the ruling party of Ukraine, David Arakhamia.

On July 13, 2001, at about three o'clock in the village of Serzhen-Yurt, a group of 25-30 Russian servicemen in camouflage uniforms and masks, swearing, shouting and insulting, broke into the house at 100 Sheripova Street.

The Military Court of Appeal in Vlasikha, Moscow Region, upheld the verdict against Crimean Tatars Oleg (Ali) Fedorov and Ernest Ibragimov. A year ago, the Southern District Military Court sentenced them to 13 years in prison.

More than 30% of all crimes in Ingushetia are related to drug trafficking, according to the statistics of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the first five months of the year.

The leader of the Crimean Tatar movement, the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Mustafa Dzhemilev, offered Turkey to exchange the Russians it detained for Crimean political prisoners.

The Grozny District Court sentenced contract soldier Alan Batyrkhanov to a year in prison on charges of leaving a military unit. This despite the fact that he fought in Ukraine and was wounded.

The Russians owe banks almost 28 trillion rubles. The level of debt load as the ratio of the average amount of debt to the annual income per household increased in the first quarter to 41%. At the beginning of the year it was 35%.