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The police conducted searches at the homes of residents of the Kardonikskaya village in Karachay-Cherkessia, including at houses of Tatiana Pasynkova, Maria Ogoreva and her daughter Svetlana Ogoreva, a Jehovah’s Witness*. Searches were also conducted in Stavropol at an apartment of Alexei Pasynkov, a Jehovah’s Witness*.

A court in Makhachkala has treated the pickets in support of Palestine and demanding to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev, held by journalist Idris Yusupov*, as a violation of the law on foreign agents, and fined him by 30,000 roubles.

The Stavropol Territorial Court has refused to soften the freedom restriction measure for a 15-year-old ninth-grade schoolgirl from Nevinnomyssk, who is kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison). Together with her peer, she is suspected of setting fire to mobile operator stations.

Law enforcers detained Seda Suleimanova in Saint Petersburg and allowed her to be sent to Chechnya despite the girl's words about the threat of repressions there, Lena Patyaeva, a Seda's friend, has stated and demanded from the Investigating Committee of Russian Federation (ICRF) to open a criminal case.

A court in Volgograd has sided with Olga Sorokina, the wife of Vyacheslav Yaschenko, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent in Volgograd, who demanded from the police to investigate attempts to break into her apartment and intimidate her. However, there is no hope for progress in the case; investigators are not interested to deal with it, Vyacheslav believes.

The Court of Appeal has refused to soften the freedom restriction measure for Alexei Schus, a Sochi engineer, accused of spreading fake news about the Russian Army and illegally making weapons.

Criticism of Dagestani athletes for taking part in the Olympics under foreign countries' flags by Vitaly Milonov, a State Duma MP, evidences political motivation and aims at opposing residents of the Caucasus to Russians in general. This was stated by the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", who has stressed that regardless of which country the athletes compete for, they remain a source of pride for their nations in Northern Caucasus.

Adam Kadyrov, a son of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, the chief of the security department of the head of the republic, has been awarded with the Order of Kadyrov, the highest award of the republic.

Thirteen people were killed as a result of the hostage-taking in a penal colony in the city of Surovikino in Volgograd Region. One of the penal colony employees died in the hospital, and two more victims stay in severe condition, the “Kommersant” reported with reference to the Volgograd Region Committee for Public Health.

Magomed Shamsudinov, a resident of the Dagestani village of Tlokh, was detained on suspicion of using force against his acquaintance, and the victim initially testified that Magomed Shamsudinov was not guilty, advocate Aidemir Ismailov reported.

At least eight reports of violations during the campaign in the Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories were received by the "Election Violations Map".

Magomed Alkhanov, a native of Chechnya, who had been kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Rostov-on-Don in connection with the attack on Pskov paratroopers, has been charged with organizing an escape from the SIZO.

Dmitry Polyakov, a resident of Krasnodar, fined for his pacifist picket, has become a figurant in a criminal case on discrediting the Russian Army.

A total of 115 conscripts, who had served in the Kursk Region, have returned to Russia as a result of an exchange of prisoners of war (POWs). This was reported by Shamsail Saraliev, a State Duma MP from Chechnya.

The body of Khamzet Gogov, a native of Cherkessk, who perished in the special military operation (SMO) zone, has not been evacuated from the battlefield for almost a year; his mother is trying in court to have him declared perished.

As a result of drone attack on Port of Kavkaz in the Krasnodar Territory, 30 fuel tanks sank, which poses a significant threat to the environment. The situation is complicated by the fact that authorities would not disclose the type of fuel that is in the tanks; and therefore it is impossible to take measures to prevent the consequences, the environmentalists, Valery Brinikh and Evgeny Vitishko, have stated.

Actions demanding an inquiry into the fate of Seda Suleimanova were held in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Tbilisi and Yerevan. Lena Patyaeva, her girlfriend, has asked the head of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) to take control over the investigation.

During a search conducted at home of Ruslan Nurushev, a Volgograd activist, law enforcers seized his computer, phones and other equipment. He has appealed to the investigating bodies demanding to have his gadgets back, but his complaints were ignored.

Sofia Angel-Barokko, a blogger from Maikop, was released from a SIZO (pre-trial prison) under recognizance not to leave the city. After her release, the blogger complained about receiving threats on social networks.

The conducted check failed to reveal any violations of the rights of natives of Dagestan kept in the Smolensk Penal Colony No. 2, Zapir Alkhasov, the Degastani Ombudsperson has informed. There is only one prisoner from Dagestan kept there; and the colony has no dungeons (punishment cells).