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For the 19th time, Moscow activists have installed a homemade memorial plaque on the facade of the Moscow building where journalist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered.

On the 449th day of continuous protests outside the Georgian parliament, activists filed a complaint with the Constitutional Court against legislative restrictions on freedom of assembly.

A military court in Nalchik sentenced Artur Batraev to seven years in prison, finding him guilty of leaving his unit without permission during mobilization.

The Central District Court of Sochi has seized 23.3 billion rubles worth of assets belonging to former State Duma deputy Anatoly Voronovsky and persons associated with him, including Kuban Transport Minister Pereverzev.

A strong storm hit Anapa today, and waves and winds destroyed the protective barriers built to protect beaches from fuel oil and debris, a blogger reported.

Several weeks before the fire at a gas storage station in the village of Novy Khushet in Makhachkala, the fire department issued orders to correct 21 deficiencies, but the violations were not corrected.

FSB officers detained five individuals from Dagestan, the Krasnodar Territory, and the Volgograd Region who were serving time in a penal colony in the Transbaikal Territory. Law enforcement suspects them and two other inmates of creating a terrorist cell in the colony.

The Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction extended the pretrial detention of Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, leader of the "Sacred Struggle" movement, for another two months. The archbishop rejected alternative forms of pretrial detention.

A new group of fighters trained at the Russian Special Forces University has departed from Grozny Airport for the military operation zone in Ukraine, Ramzan Kadyrov reported.

The Moscow City Court extended the pretrial detention of blogger Arsen Markaryan until August 9 in the case of the rehabilitation of Nazism.

Denis Kostromitin from Kamyshin was killed in the military operation in Ukraine. Since its beginning, at least 1,688 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

The prosecution, unlike the defense, can initiate repeated rounds of case review until a guilty verdict is reached or until procedural options are exhausted. The prosecutor's office is exploiting this bias in Tsipinova's case, the lawyers noted.

Unknown individuals tore down the 18th homemade memorial plaque on the house where Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered.

More than 120 days after her death, the body of Chechen native Ayshat Baimuradova remains in the morgue; investigators have decided to bury her at state expense.

In Makhachkala, meat and egg prices rose sharply at the start of Ramadan, but residents believe the main increase is expected before Eid al-Fitr. Retailers have called the price hikes necessary.

Mikhail Negmatov, known as "Akhmat's" war correspondent, has worn the Wagner PMC Platinum Star award at various events, although he is not one of its recipients. Yevgeny Golman, a member of the SVO, urged politicians to be more cautious about "masqueraders."

A man detonated a live grenade while security forces were attempting to detain him in the village of Nikolaevka in the Rostov region. He died, and criminal investigation officers are in the hospital.

Following questioning by the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the State Security Service, former Minister of Economy and Deputy Prime Minister Levan Davitashvili left the country.

The European Court of Human Rights upheld the complaint of former Azerbaijani Minister of Foreign Economic Relations Nijat Guliyev and ordered him to pay 4,000 euros in compensation.

Meydan TV journalists Aytaj Tapdyg, Aysel Umudova and Khayala Agayeva complained about the use of violence against them due to the publicity of the fact of the protocol about their violation of order in the courtroom and the refusal of the accused to testify.