The Makhachkala court received a protocol on violation of “foreign agency” legislation in relation to journalist Idris Yusupov. In April, police conducted a second search of his home. A mobile phone and two laptops were confiscated from the owner. After this, the journalist was taken to the Center for Emergency Operations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Dagestan.

The Baku Court of Appeal refused to transfer one of the leaders of the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) and the Musavat party, Tofig Yagublu, from a pre-trial detention center to house arrest. During the meeting, he harshly criticized the judges and the ruling regime of Azerbaijan.

Makhachkala resident Kadi Gadzhiev was accused of participating in an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) called “Citizens of the USSR.” According to investigators, he was a member of the executive committee of the Makhachkala City Council of People's Deputies of the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic as part of the RSFSR/USSR, a structural division of the MOO USSR.

The Shatoisky District Court in Chechnya brought local resident Tamerlan Dzhabrailov to administrative responsibility for distributing songs of the Chechen bard Timur Mutsuraev. The defendant posted in the public domain the composition “Chechen Carthage,” which begins with the words “tribal prison, executioner empire.”

A court in Magas found a 22-year-old resident of Ingushetia guilty of selling her newborn child and sentenced her to a suspended sentence. According to investigators, in October 2022, in Nazran, a mother sold her child to a 57-year-old woman for 100 thousand rubles. The criminal case against the buyer has been separated into separate proceedings.

The Khasavyurt City Court of Dagestan re-examined the criminal case against 54-year-old local resident Shakhban Abakargadzhiev about “fakes” about the army. As a result, instead of a three-year term of correctional labor, the accused was given a five-year sentence.

Russian citizen Vadim Krasikov, who is serving a life sentence in Germany for the murder of Chechen Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, was defended in court by lawyers with money from the Fund for Support and Protection of the Rights of Compatriots operating in Europe. It is controlled by Russian intelligence services. This was reported by The Guardian.

In the fall of 2023, the Supreme Court of the KBR sentenced Salikh Osmanov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, to 9 years in a maximum security colony. He was found guilty of preparing sabotage, as well as of having a negative attitude towards the SVO and the authorities of the Russian Federation. The man did not admit guilt, claiming falsification of the case and pressure on him.