The first hearing in a case on riots at the “Uitash” airport in Makhachkala was held at a court in the Stavropol Territory. Two of the eight defendants, in addition to participating in mass riots and violating transport safety rules, have been accused of attacking policemen.

The administration of the penal colony located in the town of Uryupinsk has extended the custody term in the dungeon (punishment cell) of Igor Nagavkin, who has declared a hunger strike, having treated him as a malicious violator; they prepare documents to transfer him to a general regime colony.

A court in the Moscow Region has found no violation in the words of Ekaterina Neroznikova, a human rights defender, about the case of Seda Suleimanova. The reason for stopping the prosecution under the article on participation in an undesirable organization was in violations in the protocol, the human rights project "OVD-Info"* has informed.

In Karachay-Cherkessia, the law enforcement bodies suspected activist Guzel Kasimova from Tatarstan of posting leaflets about an impending terror act.