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The hostage-taking incident in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Rostov-on-Don may be the result of a provocation, human rights defenders note. According to their version, the dead prisoners had handcuffs on their hands, and numerous violations had earlier been recorded in the SIZO itself.

In Makhachkala, tourists became interested in Abdulmumin Gadjiev’s case after noticing a solo picket in his support, reported journalist Magomed Magomedov.

A court sentenced Vitaly Yanchenko, a contract soldier from Adygea, to six years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony, finding him guilty of desertion from a military unit in Buynaksk.

Prisoners from Ingushetia, convicted under terrorist articles, took part in hostage-taking at the Rostov SIZO (pre-trial prison), said the head of Ingushetia. Sources have added that prisoners from Chechnya were also among hostage-takers.

While in the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine, Top Sergeant Sultanali Akhmedov has recorded a video appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of Dagestan Sergey Melikov.

Mikhail Doliev, an Astrakhan activist, has won the case versus Russia at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Two of his complaints concerned his detentions during protest actions.

Galina Teryokhina, a Moscow resident, has sent a complaint to the Public Prosecutor of the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river) that the court had fined her incapacitated relative for sneaking onto a fenced beach.

The bills that intend to ban wearing religious clothing, including niqabs, in public places are causing a split in the society, which is especially negative amid the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine. Religious clothes are not widespread in the country, this issue is not relevant, therefore the bills to ban them will not be adopted, lawyers believe.

The appellate instance has upheld the sentence of Arkady Tomilov, a contract serviceman from the Stavropol Territory, who was sentenced to six years in penal colony for leaving his military unit without permission.

The British authorities have included Yakub Zakriev, a nephew of the head of Chechnya, who now heads the "Danone Russia" Company, into the sanctions list.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found unlawful the detention of activists at protest actions held in Rostov-on-Don, Sochi, Anapa and Stavropol.

Law enforcers have detained Eldar Kyulbyakov, a resident of the village of Suvorovskaya, and tortured him with electric shock, demanding that he write a confession. According to his father, they also demanded from Eldar to testify against the head of one of the police departments.

A court sentenced a woman from Makhachkala to a suspended sentence, recognizing her as a member of a cell of the extremist organization “Union of Rus’ Slavic Forces”.

The Court of Cassation for the third time returned to the Krasnodar Territorial Court the criminal case on beating of Yevgeniy Manchenko, a person with disabilities, by law enforcers. The court recognized the cancellation of the sentence as unlawful.

The agreements on the creation of a “Wildberries” logistics hub in North Ossetia and a plant for the production of polymer pipes in Budyonnovsk look like the most realistic of all the investment projects for Northern Caucasus concluded at the Saint Petersburg Economic Forum, economist Natalia Zubarevich suggests.

The authorities of Kabardino-Balkaria have provided assistance to artist Mukhadin Kishev in his struggle for an art house in Nalchik, a lawyer reports. Artists consider national motifs in a modern interpretation as one of the features of the Mukhadin Kishev’s works.

Shamil Khadulaev, the chair of the Public Monitoring Commission (PMC) of Dagestan, reports that 134 people remain under arrest in connection with the riots at an airport in Makhachkala and two others still stay under house arrest, although the accused claim that they were at the airport, but did not participate in the riots.

Residents of Volgograd have filed a lawsuit after journalists from a pro-governmental TV channel disclosed their personal data. The journalists filmed Volgograd townspeople as they laid flowers in memory of Alexei Navalny, and then disseminated their data, treating them as potential saboteurs.

Law enforcers have conducted a search in the apartment of Vladimir Telpuk, a Volgograd activist, explaining is as an inquiry into the case of the former coordinator of Navalny's office.

Law enforcers are trying to present the actions of Anapa residents as an unsanctioned rally, because they had recorded a video appeal to the Russian President, in which they complained that the administration of a local children's camp had blocked the beach with a fence, depriving people of access thereto. The camp director has explained that the fence was installed for security reasons.