Activist Ametkhan Abdulvapov, who was sentenced to 10.5 years, will be transferred to a maximum security penal colony. Its location is still unknown. He is currently in pretrial detention center No. 1 in Irkutsk, 6,000 kilometers from his home in Crimea.

A monument to Joseph Stalin has been erected in the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali. The life-size figure is located near the building of a bakery.

Afghan workers will receive work permits in Chechnya, Dagestan and Krasnodar Krai. This was announced at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum by the head of the Russian Business Center in Afghanistan, Rustam Khabibullin.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made his first working visit to Turkey (in 2023, he attended the presidential inauguration). During the meeting with the head of state Recep Erdogan, the parties discussed the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations and the peace process between Yerevan and Baku.

On June 19, the lower house of the Dutch parliament supported the recognition of the deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 to the USSR as genocide.

The eldest son of the head of Chechnya, 19-year-old Akhmat Kadyrov, received an honorary certificate for his contribution to the development of physical culture and sports in Russia and for his fruitful work.

On June 19, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling for freedom of the independent press in Georgia and the release of Mzia Amaglobeli. The document was approved by 324 parliamentarians, only 25 voted against.

Trade between Russia and Armenia may decrease by 6 billion dollars by the end of 2025. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexey Overchuk at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum.