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In social networks, Dagestani bloggers have criticized Khava Shaidullina, a psychologist from Kazan, who intended to hold a seminar in Makhachkala on women's rights in Islam. They explained their position by stating that Shaidullina's viewpoint fails to correspond to religious canons and can mislead residents of Dagestan.

The Military Court in Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), has sentenced a military serviceman under contract to five years in jail after finding him guilty of leaving his military unit without permission.

The Russian Special Forces University located in the Chechen city Gudermes, which has become one of the training centres for fighters to participate in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, is funded by Chechen businessman Movsadi Alviev, the "Important Stories"* have informed.

During the day of Prigozhin's rebellion, the support for fighters of the "Wagner" Private Military Company (PMC) by Rostov-on-Don townspeople was not massive; people came to the city centre more out of curiosity, political analysts believe.

The celebration of Eid al-Adha in Dagestan is not as scaled as of the Eid al-Fitr, but gradually the number of believers who understand the significance of this holiday and participate in sacrifices is increasing, residents of the republic have noted.

A Makhachkala woman is suspected of torturing her husband's nine-year-old daughter, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has informed. Instagram** users have called for the girl's father to be punished, suggesting that he had admitted the torture.

The acting chairman of the Novokubansk Court has banned visiting the trial of the Krasnodar journalist and blogger, Alexander Nozdrinov. Such a ban is illegal and interferes with interrogation of witnesses, a Nozdrinov's advocate has stated.

Konstantin Yefremov, a former commander of a motorized rifle division stationed in Chechnya, who left Russia, was fined in absentia in Vladikavkaz. A court recognized his interview to the “Gulagu.net” human rights project about the actions of Russian militaries in Ukraine as discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender has stated numerous violations and falsifications at the trial of the theft of gold jewellery by the first-instance court. The Volgograd Regional Court, where his appeal is considered, has rejected all of his motions.

A large family of refugees from Afghanistan, named Sh(...), has demanded in court to extend their temporary asylum in Russia due to the threat of persecution in their homeland. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) insists that the couple failed to provide reasons why they can't return to Afghanistan.

Lev Gyammer, a former coordinator of the Krasnodar office of Alexei Navalny*, an oppositional politician, has been put on the federal wanted list.

The mass protests in Ingushetia were provoked by the actions of the republic's leadership, and the riots that onset during the rally were an attempt to forcefully disperse the demonstrators, Askhab Uzhakhov, an advocate, has noted.

In Pyatigorsk, a court continued to consider an appeal filed in the case of Ingush activists. Andrei Sabinin, an advocate of Ismail Nalgiev, emphasized that investigators had no evidence that the activists had organized riots during the rally in Magas. However, there is evidence proving that the defendants tried to stop the violence.

Magomed Abubakarov, a citizen of the United Kingdom, who had been kept by Chechen law enforcers for several weeks, has been released.

The spouses Yaroslav Savin and Marina Mitaleva, activists from Astrakhan, have left Russia, fearing a fabrication of a criminal case because of their civil position.

The intellectual work of assembling the "Akhmat-1" satellite, the launch of which Ramzan Kadyrov has reported, was not carried out in Chechnya, while the parts thereof were bought in China, Vitaly Egorov, an astronautics promoter, has pointed out in a conversation with the Insider*.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has sentenced Nikita Potselov to 10.5 years of freedom deprivation, taking into account his previous verdict. According to the Court, while in a Stavropol colony, he took the oath of allegiance to the leader of the "Islamic State"*.

Maxim Belomytsev, a student of the Kuban State University, was expelled for promoting gender reassignment on his social media page. Earlier, protocols on LGBT propaganda and discrediting the Russian Armed Forces were drawn up against him.

The Council of Teips (Family Clans) of the Ingush People has asked Russian President, Vladimir Putin, to release the Ingush activists. The council members have recalled the termination of the criminal case against Evgeny Prigozhin, the founder of "Wagner" Private Military Company (PMC), who was accused of rebellion. In their opinion, Ingush activists are imprisoned for much lesser offenses.

The cassation instance has found the arguments of the defence about torture and falsification of the criminal case against Ruslan Magomedov, a former policeman from Dagestan, sentenced to three years in colony for drug possession, to be unproved.