The Third Court of Appeal in Sochi began to consider the defense complaint of Kabardino-Balkaria resident Salikh Osmanov. In the fall of 2023, the Supreme Court of the KBR sentenced him to 9 years in a maximum security colony. The man was found guilty of preparing sabotage, as well as a negative attitude towards the SVO and the authorities of the Russian Federation.

In connection with the celebration of Eid al-Fitr, the authorities of Dagestan declared the days from April 10 to 12 non-working. In Chechnya, the weekend will be from April 9 to 11. Decrees on non-working days in the republics were signed by Sergei Melikov and Muslim Khuchiev, respectively.

Yerevan’s statements that Moscow and the CSTO did not help Armenia during the aggravation in Karabakh are a lie. Yerevan made decisions under the influence of NATO. This is what Maria Zakharova, a representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said on air on the Zvezda TV channel.

Since 2019, since his arrest, Tofik Abdulgaziev has lost 40 kilograms. He was recently transferred from intensive care to the intensive care unit of the Verkhneuralsk hospital in the Chelyabinsk region, where his family was able to visit him.

The international media protection organization Reporters Without Borders again criticized the Azerbaijani authorities for repression against media representatives. We are talking about the arrest of Toplum TV employees on charges of currency smuggling.

A serious challenge for the Georgian penitentiary system remains the overcrowding of prisons, which is associated with the emergence of informal governance within them and violence among prisoners in relations with each other. This was stated by the country's public defender Levan Ioseliani.

In a maximum security colony in the city of Salavat in the Republic of Bashkortostan, political prisoner Ruslan Zeitullaev was released from a punishment cell. He spent 40 days in a punishment cell.

Police officers searched the house of journalist Idris Yusupov in Makhachkala. A mobile phone and two laptops were confiscated from him. On October 30, 2023, FSB officers already conducted a search and took away similar items, which were returned only on March 18, the Memorial Human Rights Center reported.

A court in Baku denied the defense of Tofig Yagublu, a member of the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) and the Musavat party, to replace the preventive measure in the form of detention with house arrest. He has been in pre-trial detention for more than three and a half months, and during all this time no investigation has been carried out.

In Makhachkala, problems arose with cleaning and garbage disposal. This happened after the police detained many migrants from the Central Asian republics. As a result, employees of the city hall came out to clean up.