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Advocate Alexander Nemov, who was beaten in Chechnya, considered it unsafe for him to go there to testify in his case, reported Henry Reznik, the head of the lawyer’s commission. According to him, colleagues of Alexander Nemov have no illusions that the crime will be solved soon.

In Sochi, a court sentenced mobilized Maxim Sukhobrus to seven years of imprisonment, finding him guilty of leaving without permission a military unit in the special military operation zone and desertion.

Ali Bataev, a native of Chechnya, who was facing deportation from Switzerland to his homeland, has been released from the deportation centre, human rights defenders have informed.

At a court session in Grozny, the last three of the 13 imams recognized as the suffered party in the case of the burning of the Koran by Nikita Zhuravel, a Volgograd resident, were interrogated. One of the Imams has stated that Zhuravel's act caused him moral harm.

Authors of the appeal in defence of the scientists of the Institute for Humanitarian Research sent it to the leader and the government of Kabardino-Balkaria, the republic’s Investigating Department of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) and the prosecutor’s office, but received no response from all the above-mentioned institutions.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has awarded compensations to the following activists from Rostov-on-Don: Olesya Bakhtiyarova, Konstantin Maklyak and Maxim Murugin; to activists from Volgograd, Vladimir Lygin and Vladimir Doronin; and Oleg Ivanov, an activist from Stavropol.

The prosecution of Vasily Melnikov, a resident of the Kotelnikovsky District, on charges of spreading fake news about the Russian Army is unlawful and politically motivated. This was stated by the human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial", demanding to release the arrested man.

The start of mass production of "Jihad" vehicles for the needs of the special military operation (SMO) is planned in 2024 at the "Chechenavto", Chechen authorities have reported.

A conscript from Volzhsky filed a claim to court against the decisions of the military registration and enlistment offices, which declared him fit for military service, despite his serious illnesses.

Policemen have demanded explanation from Abdulmumin Gadjiev's friends and colleagues, who came to the venue of the solo picket in Makhachkala held by Magomed Magomedov, a deputy editor-in-chief of the "Chernovik" outlet. The law enforcers' reaction to the picket itself was calm, Mr Magomedov has noted.

In the village of Bogatyryovka, due to the lack of running water supply, people have to buy drinking water or use technical water from wells, while local authorities do not solve the problem. That has been reported by villagers in their appeal to President Putin.

Magomed Magomedov, a deputy editor-in-chief of the "Chernovik" outlet, has held a solo picket in Makhachkala demanding the release of the convicted Abdulmumin Gadjiev.

The appellate instance has upheld the sentence of Islam Margushev, who had been mobilized from the Zolsky District and earlier sentenced to five years in penal colony on charges of leaving his military unit without permission.

A court in Pyatigorsk has found Oleg Vasilenko, a local resident, guilty of spreading extremist materials because of his posting a manifesto in a social network that recalled the promises of the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party announced before the 2002 elections.

In their video message to Russian President, Vladimir Putin, migrants from the village of Tsumilyukh in the Tlyaratin District, who live in distant pastures in the Babayurt District, have asked him to help in solving the problems of bad roads, an emergency school and gasification of their village.

The Promyshlenny District Court of Vladikavkaz has imposed a fine on Sergey Sidorenko, treating his words spoken in support of the people of Ukraine in the presence of his neighbours as discrediting the Russian Army.

The prosecution of Shakhban Abakargadjiev, a Khasavyurt resident, under the article on fakes about the Russian Army is unlawful and politically motivated. This was stated by the human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial", which has demanded to release the convict and stop the criminal case against him.

A court in the city of Adler has sentenced Marina Melikhova to 1.5 years in penal colony, treating the videos she had published in social networks as discrediting Russian militaries. This was reported by the human rights project "OVD-Info"* with reference to Maria Spasibukhova, an advocate.

The Sovietsky District Court of Volgograd has extended the arrest of Daniil Vodolagin, accused of spreading fake news about the Russian Army, by six months. The judge has rejected the advocate's arguments in favour of mitigating the young man's freedom restriction measure.

At a court hearing in a case against Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender from Volgograd, prosecution witnesses recanted their testimonies given during the preliminary investigation. The judge did not grant the defendant’s request to question a linguist specialist who conducted an examination on the investigator’s instructions.