Crimean Tatar philologist and journalist Seyran Saliev, sentenced to 16 years in prison, was once again transferred to strict conditions of detention in a colony in the Tula region. Since the beginning of the year, he was sent to a punishment cell for 15 days several times due to violation of his dress code.

Four residents of Dagestan, released from pre-trial detention the day before, were again arrested in connection with the riots at the Makhachkala airport. This was announced by the Chairman of the Public Monitoring Commission of the Republic Shamil Khadulaev.

The Kirovsky District Court of Makhachkala sentenced Rufina Pirveledova to 2.5 years probation. She was found guilty of participating in an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

Sentenced to 3.5 years on charges of burning the Koran, 19-year-old Nikita Zhuravel remained to serve his sentence in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Grozny, where he was kept during the investigation and trial.

A court in Akhtubinsk (Astrakhan region) arrested local resident Beknur Kamalov for 10 days under the article on demonstrating extremist symbols (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code). He posted on Vkontakte the song “Jerusalem” by the Chechen bard Timur Mutsuraev.

The day before, American congressmen criticized the ruling Georgian Dream party due to the adoption of the law on foreign agents and rapprochement with China and the Russian Federation. The reaction of the Georgian authorities was not long in coming.

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, Transparency International and more than 10 other human rights organizations published a joint statement on the anniversary of the arrest of the Azerbaijani economist and opposition politician Gubad Ibadoglu. The authors of the text called on the Azerbaijani authorities to release political prisoners.

Four people arrested in a criminal case related to riots at the local airport were released from pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Makhachkala. The chairman of the public monitoring commission of Dagestan, Shamil Khadulaev, wrote about this.

The European Union has lost its peaceful potential, even in words. He is doing everything to turn the post-Soviet space into a zone of military confrontation. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Zakharova, commenting on the EU allocation of military assistance to Armenia worth 10 million euros.

The assassination attempt on the founder of the ruling Georgian Dream party, Bidzina Ivanishvili, was prepared by the same global forces that tried to kill US presidential candidate Donald Trump and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze stated this at a briefing for journalists.