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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.

Before the start of Ramadan, food prices in various cities of Dagestan rose sharply and unjustifiably, and authorities are not monitoring pricing, Instagram users* reported.

One person was killed and six were injured in a shooting in Yerevan's Ajapnyak district. Police are searching for those involved.

Chechen authorities' reports on food price controls have had virtually no impact on the situation in stores and markets: retailers significantly raised prices on popular items even before the start of Ramadan, social media users reported.

The fire at the Ilsky Oil Refinery in the Seversky District of Kuban has been contained, but the area of ​​the fire has not decreased.

Andrei Shirochkin from the Yelansky District was killed in the military operation in Ukraine. Since its beginning, at least 1,687 soldiers from the Volgograd Region have been officially recognized as killed.

In the month since the destruction of the memorial plaque in honor of Anna Politkovskaya, activists have installed homemade memorial signs on the murdered journalist's house at least 18 times.

Residents of Yeysk, Yeysk, and Shcherbinovsky districts in Kuban recorded a video message asking authorities to prevent the mass death of fish at the Yeysk locks. According to residents, the situation reoccurs every year, but no action is being taken.

Armenian authorities are still awaiting the relatives' consent to take Aishat Baimuradova's body for burial. Incidents involving Russian citizens of Chechen descent have forced Armenian law enforcement to respond quickly to threatening calls, according to human rights activists.

Supporters of Georgia's European integration protested outside parliament for the 448th day in a row. The Georgian Parliament approved, in its second reading, amendments to the law making non-recognition of constitutional bodies a criminal offense.

Over a hundred people attended the Magas District Court in Ingushetia, where the trial of Imam Muhammad Tamaskhanov, accused of failing to report a crime, began. The judge, citing technical difficulties, adjourned the hearing.

The head of Chechnya stated that no one summoned him to the Kremlin to make peace with Suleiman Kerimov after talk of blood feud.