The Rostov Regional Court has upheld the sentence of Jehovah's Witnesses* Garegin Khachaturyan, Gevorg Eritsyan and Lyubov Galitsyna, who had been earlier found guilty within an extremism case.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has posted a video in which a resident of Astrakhan made a public apology to townspeople for firing a traumatic pistol when leaving a cafe with his friends.

The Grachevsky District Court of the Stavropol Territory has begun considering the case of eight residents of Dagestan accused of involvement in the riots at the Makhachkala Airport.

In the Novolaksky District, under forged documents, officials have transferred 40 land plots, intended for the resettlement of Lak nationals from the former Aukhov District, to strangers.

The court of appeal has released Adam Vedzizhev from administrative punishment. The man was convicted of failure to obey the police after a conflict related to the attempted seizure of the “Wildberries” Company. In the complaint against the arrest, the defence mentioned the Adam Vedzizhev’s health state.

Despite the defence's protest, a court in Gelendjik has ruled, at the request of the suffered party and the prosecution, to conduct the trial of Vadim Kharchenko*, a blogger, behind closed doors. Visitors to the court believe that this ruling is intended to conceal the absence of proofs for the presented charges and case falsifications.

Ten people were killed by an explosion of a fuelling station in Makhachkala, including two children, the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has reported. Seven other victims were hospitalized, the Dagestani Ministry of Public Health (MPH) has informed.

Circassian activists have held a protest action outside the "Halk.TV" Turkish TV channel, demanding an apology for statements about Circassians' involvement in child abuse.

An explosion occurred at a petrol station located on a road in the Karabudakhkent District, the Makhachkala City Mayoralty reported. Four persons were killed in the explosion, the Dagestani Minister for Public Health announced.

The Morozovsk District Court has treated the attempt to set fire to the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) as hooliganism and sentenced Ivan Svistov to one year and eight months in penal colony.

The Oktiabrsky District Court of Novorossiysk has dismissed Yuri Mikhailov's lawsuit for compensation for the fact that after staying in jails in Novorossiysk and in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), he was infected with HIV and hepatitis. This was reported by his advocate, Svetlana Toreeva.

According to the Vainakh traditions, blood feud is declared after all the facts have been established. Then specific names must be publicly announced and the arguments of the family clan against whom the blood feud is declared must be listened to.

In Rostov-on-Don, a military court sentenced Magomed Alkhanov, a native of Chechnya, to ten years of imprisonment on the charges of involvement in the attack of a militant detachment led by Shamil Basaev and Amir Khattab on Pskov paratroopers in 2000.

A story of a woman from Chechnya who fled domestic violence and was put on the wanted list by her relatives has continued a series of similar cases, human rights defenders note. By leaving her children in Chechnya, the woman gave the family additional leverage for blackmail, they emphasized.

Zarema Musaeva’s blood sugar has approached a critically high level, drug therapy in a penal colony is not able to help the woman, and the court has postponed for a month the consideration of the appeal against the refusal in the conditional early relief for Zarema Musaeva.

Eight years ago, representatives of the head of Chechnya helped the Bakalchuks resolve business problems and last summer Vladislav Bakalchuk decided to contact Ramzan Kadyrov directly, Vladislav, a co-owner of Wildberries, said himself, adding that he is alive and at large thanks to support from Chechnya.