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Following the presentation of the Astrakhan corrective colony IK-10, the court has changed the custody regime for Abdul-Malik Albagachiev, a prisoner from Ingushetia, for the prison one. The decision will be appealed against, Irina Biryukova, an advocate, has informed.

Journalist Elena Milashina associates an attack she and advocate Alexander Nemov suffered in Grozny with a case of missing Chechen policeman Yasin Khalidov. The attackers were interested in the information that Yasin Khalidov had managed to pass on to human rights defenders before his detention, Elena Milashina believes.

Zagir Yakubov, a native of the Stavropol Territory, who was sentenced to 14 years in prison as a participant in the attack of Shamil Basaev's and Khattab's grouping on Dagestan in 1999, has committed suicide.

The illegal circulation of the weapons originating from the special military operation (SMO) zone is widespread among all fighters; sometimes entire units can be involved therein, analysts have pointed out in their comments on the case of the shooting of a "Wagner" fighter at law enforcers in the Rostov Region.

In Krasnodar, a court of cassation cancelled the verdict to Mikhail Selitsky, who was sentenced to compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital in a case on vandalism motivated by political hostility. The court sent the case for retrial. That was reported by the “OVD-Info”* human rights project with reference to advocate Rustam Mukhamadeev.

The complaint against the refusal to initiate a case of torturing Timur Debishev, an actor, has been once again returned by the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya to the Visaitovsky District Court of Grozny. However, the judge who had received the complaint has withdrawn himself by using a formal pretext, Ekaterina Vanslova, a human rights defender, has informed.

The Stavropol Territorial Military Court has sentenced a contract soldier to six years in colony, finding him guilty of leaving his military unit without permission.

The Supreme Court (SC) of North Ossetia has softened the conditions and terms of arrest for former law enforcers Alan Khokhoev, Georgy Tsomaev, Shota Maisuradze and Soslan Sitokhov, accused within the case of the death of Vladimir Tskaev, a citizen of Vladikavkaz, which occurred after he was questioned at the police station.

Zarema Musaeva, convicted in the case of attacking a law enforcer, has stated that she hopes for the Russian Supreme Court (SC), from which she expects a positive decision on her complaint against the court verdict passed in Grozny, the "Novaya Gazeta" outlet has informed.

An officer of the prosecutor’s office filed an appeal against the verdict to Diana Tsipinova, an advocate from Kabardino-Balkaria, who was acquitted in a case on an attack on a law enforcer. This was reported by the Human Rights Centre of Kabardino-Balkaria on its Telegram channel with reference to a post of the “Advokatskaya Street”*.

The Court of Appeal (CoA) has upheld the verdict on Major Maxim Bespalov from North Ossetia, who was sentenced to five years and eight months in a penal colony on charges of leaving his military unit without permission.

The court has fined a resident of Makhachkala, finding him guilty of non-informing law enforcement bodies that his acquaintance was participating in hostilities in Syria on the side of the "Islamic State" (IS)*.

Chechen investigators have combined the attack cases on the journalist, Elena Milashina, and the advocate, Alexander Nemov, into one case and significantly expanded the list of articles, by adding, among other things, interfering in the victims' professional activities.