In the Yelets prison in the Lipetsk region, Crimean Tatar Seitveli Seitabdiev, sentenced to 14 years, is not receiving medical care. For more than a month he has not been able to get an appointment with a surgeon or ophthalmologist. He is also bothered by severe itching of the scalp, pain in the back and elbows.

In Kazan, police removed the author of the Wild Paratrooper channel, Askhabali Alibekov, from the train and detained him. The exact reasons for the detention are unknown.

The prosecutor demanded a 3.5 year sentence for student Nikita Zhuravel, accused of insulting the feelings of believers. He is accused of burning the Koran.

Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded the rank of Major General of Justice to Vladimir Sharaev. In 2015, he was an investigator in the case of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

About 30 Chechen refugees and oppositionists were placed in repatriation centers in Turkey, from where they could be deported to the Russian Federation. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a statement about the “exceptionality of such a situation.”

The day before, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation published another list of “foreign agents”. It included a native of Chechnya, director of the human rights organization Human Rights Center Ichkeria Aslan Artsuev.

Last night, demonstrations took place in Yerevan and Tbilisi over the death of opposition politician Alexei Navalny in a Russian colony. About 200 people gathered in front of the Russian Embassy in Yerevan, and more than a thousand in Tbilisi and Batumi.

The court in Grozny approved the request for parole of Dzhabrail Makhmudov. In 2014, he and his brother Ibrahim were found guilty of complicity in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. They were sentenced to 12 and 14 years in a maximum security colony, respectively.

The Federal Penitentiary Service in the Yamalo-Nenets District spread the news about the death of opposition politician Alexei Navalny in IK-3. It is reported that Navalny felt ill after the walk and lost consciousness. He allegedly lost a blood clot and died.

The largest opposition party in Georgia, the United National Movement, initiated the collection of signatures for the release of ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili from prison.