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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.

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.

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.

The resolution pronounced by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case on the Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev’s murder is unlikely to affect the investigation into his death, although it is a moral victory, a son of the murdered journalist believes.

The state prosecution's statements about links of Nikita Zhuravel, a Volgograd resident, with Ukraine have no legal value, since he is charged with a different crime, lawyers have stated, believing that such false accusations are made by the prosecution for propaganda purposes.

In Pyatigorsk, the garrison military court has sentenced a military serviceman to six years in penal colony for his three-month absence from his military unit.

Authorities are responsible for the inefficient investigation of journalists' murders; the atmosphere of impunity gives a free hand to those who disagree with sharp journalistic publications, Galina Arapova*, a lawyer, has commented on the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the claims lodged by relatives of the murdered journalists, Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev and Khadjimurad Kamalov.

The Volgograd Regional Court has upheld the sentence of three pensioners, members of the Volzhsky branch of the "Russia's Security Committee", convicted to three years of freedom deprivation each within the case of taking part in an extremist community.

The investigator has announced the completion of the re-investigation in the case of Oleg Orlov; and the motives of hatred and enmity have been added to the imputed charges of discrediting the Russian Army.

The "Rosfinmonitoring" (Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service) has included Sofia Angel-Barokko, a female blogger from Maykop (the capital of Adygea), accused of insulting believers' feelings and justifying terrorism, into the list of extremists and terrorists.

A court in Rostov-on-Don has sentenced Alexander Lyakh, a former deputy head of the tuberculosis hospital of the FSIN (Russian Federal Penitentiary Service), to 7.5 years in prison, finding him guilty of organizing patients' torture.

Journalist Idris Yusupov* traditionally went out on a solo picket in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, but the police interfered with the protest action three times until it had to be stopped, since another man unfolded a similar poster next to the picketer.

Information about labour slavery of a Belarusian resident at a brick factory located in the Dagestani city of Kaspiysk has been confirmed, and a criminal investigation has been launched, investigators report.