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The Akhtubinsky District Court has fined Nadir Mamedov, a resident of the Astrakhan Region, by 30,000 roubles, finding him guilty of discrediting the Russian Army.

The Peoples' Friendship Academy should not be set up created under the auspices of "Akhmat", since Russia is a multinational country, while methods of the Chechen authorities and the incident with Adam Kadyrov cast doubt on the successful children's upbringing in Chechnya, Telegram users have stated.

Due to the found violations, the appellate court has overturned the sentence passed to Shakhban Abakargadjiev, a resident of the city of Khasavyurt, and returned the case of fakes about the Russian Army to the city court.

Regular power outages and voltage surges lead to failures of household appliances and additional expenses, residents of Chechnya have complained. The electricity supplier is responsible for the caused damages, an advocate has pointed out.

For his post with a rainbow flag placed in a social network, a court in the city of Volzhsky has fined a local resident under the article of demonstrating extremist symbols. The young man has deleted his post and admitted his guilt, referring to his "stupidity."

Natalia Beliavskaya from the town of Znamensk, accused of spreading fakes about the Russian Armed Forces, has been sentenced to eight months of correctional labour.

Despite deterioration of her health condition and absence of due medical treatment, the blogger from Maykop, Sofia Angel-Barokko, accused of insulting believers' feelings and justifying terrorism, remains at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), her relatives and friends have reported. Her mother has added intimidation.

The Southern District Military Court has refused to commute the sentences passed to the militaries for leaving their units, namely, to Ruslan Uteev, a mobilized man, sentenced to 5.5 years in colony by a court in Chechnya, and Pavel Trusov, a contract soldier, sentenced in Stavropol to six years.

A court granted a request of investigators to return Leyla Gatagazheva, a resident of Ingushetia, accused of links to Syrian militants, into custody from house arrest.

In Ingushetia, a court left Rasukhan Matsiev, accused of possessing a grenade, in custody, despite the defendant’s complaint that the ammunition had been planted to him by law enforcers during a search.

For 150 days already, nothing has been known about the fate of Seda Suleimanova, who was taken by her relatives to Chechnya, her girlfriend stated at a picket held outside the Saint Petersburg's Prosecutor's Office (PO). Law enforcers have detained the picketer.

Ramzan Kadyrov is building a ruling system in Chechnya based on family and personal ties, and strives to demonstrate his children's successes in making careers.

The sister of Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender, is concerned about law enforcers' attempt to informally obtain the originals of the statements about the torture of prisoners from Kalmykia, which her brother had presented in court.

An unidentified person shot several times at MMA fighter Magomedrasul Mutaev near his house in Makhachkala. The athlete died on the way to the hospital. The preliminary reason for the athlete’s murder is said to be revenge, sources report.

At the first court hearing in a case against Mikhail Balabanov, accused of plotting to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office in the Stavropol Territory, public prosecutors submitted to court half of the evidence.

The Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) included Oleg Orlov*, a co-chair of the “Memorial” Centre for Defence of Human Rights, into the register of foreign agents, noting that the human rights defender opposed the actions of the Russian troops in Ukraine and disseminated false information about the policies of the authorities of Russia.

Khadizhat Kadyrova, a 24-year-old daughter of Ramzan Kadyrov, has been appointed the first deputy head of the administration of the leader and government of Chechnya. She has been entrusted with supervision of the social block.

Those responsible for violating journalists' rights during the anti-mobilization rally in Makhachkala were not punished at all, Vladimir Sevrinovsky, a journalist, has noted in his comment on the court's ruling to terminate proceedings on his complaint about investigators' inaction.

The "Akhmat" children's battalion can promote peoples' friendship, Dmitry Kuznetsov, a Russian State Duma MP, has stated noting the importance of the participation of men from Chechnya and other regions of Northern Caucasus in upbringing the youth of the entire country.

A public prosecutor requested court to sentence Yevgeniy Volkov, the deputy police chief of the Primorsko-Akhtarsky District of the Krasnodar Territory, accused of involvement in the beating of a detainee, to three years of imprisonment.