A criminal case has been opened against the son of the head of the Azerbaijani diaspora in Yekaterinburg, Mutvala Shikhlinsky. This was announced by the president of the Sverdlovsk Region Bar Association, Igor Putintsev. The Leninsky District Court clarified that the charges were brought under the article on violence against a government official.
In the Stavropol Territory, in the city of Nevinnomyssk, a court sentenced four residents of Dagestan, finding them guilty of desecrating the Eternal Flame memorial. The young people received real prison terms - up to 2.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
PFL Champion Timur Khizriev was attacked in Makhachkala. The incident occurred on Daniyalov Street, where two unknown masked men ambushed the athlete near his home.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has refused to support the initiative of the family of Ruben Vardanyan, the former head of the unrecognized Karabakh government, to appeal to former US President Donald Trump with a request for his release. This was reported by the Armenian newspaper "Hraparak".
The Memorial Human Rights Center recognized Eduard Asanov, a citizen of the Russian Federation and Ukraine, a Crimean Tatar, as a political prisoner. In July 2024, he was sentenced to 8 years and 6 months in prison on charges of participating in an illegal armed group.
The State Duma has decided to extend Islamic banking in Bashkortostan, Dagestan, Tatarstan and Chechnya, as well as to develop standards in this area.
Two Georgian judges have been added to the list of people against whom sanctions may be imposed, as proposed by Brussels, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas stated. According to her, the EU sees that court decisions against protesters are indeed "very, very disproportionate", and it is obvious that "the judiciary is also part of this apparatus".
A mass brawl between natives of Chechnya and Ingushetia on one side and, presumably, members of the nationalist organization "Russian Community" on the other took place in Krasnozavodsk, Moscow Region.
From June 18 to 25, the most significant increases in gasoline prices were recorded in Crimea, Dagestan, Chechnya, and the Ivanovo region.
The Russian Ministry of Justice has added the Crimean Tatar human rights organization Crimean Solidarity to the register of foreign agents.
Representatives of Georgian civil society have issued an open appeal to international organizations, declaring what they believe is an intensification of Russia's annexation policy in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The document has been sent to the UN, the European Union, the European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM), the OSCE, and NATO.
Representatives of the Chechen diaspora in Vienna organized a protest outside the Finnish Embassy. The activists' main demand was to prevent the extradition to Russia of refugees from the North Caucasus, who face the threat of torture and repression in their home countries. Human rights activist Roza Dunaeva provided information on this matter.