The Second Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction in Moscow rejected the appeal of the former co-chairman of the Memorial Human Rights Center Oleg Orlov against his sentence. He, being abroad, asked for permission to participate in the trial via video link.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Russian law enforcement officials failed to act in the case of an attack on a minibus with participants in a press tour on the border of Chechnya and Ingushetia in March 2016. In connection with this, Russia was ordered to pay compensation in the amount of six thousand euros to each injured journalist and human rights activist.

A criminal case has been opened against five residents of Ingushetia under the article on failure to report a crime. According to the investigation, they (including two minors) failed to warn about the planned terrorist attack in the Sunzha church.

Mansur Movlaev, who was put on the wanted list in Russia and fled from the Chechen authorities, was detained in Almaty. It is reported that he had been living in this Kazakh city for the past year and a half.

A court in Stavropol sentenced four more participants in the pogrom at Makhachkala airport to 10 years in prison. Arsen Arbuliev, Malik Aliyev, Saidapandi Abdulazizov and Nazhmudin Abakarov were found guilty of mass riots, armed resistance and the use of violence against government officials.

Moscow's Basmanny Court sentenced co-chairman of the movement for the protection of voters' rights Golos Grigory Melkonyants to five years in prison. He was found guilty of organizing the work of an "undesirable" organization.

A criminal case has been sent to the Southern District Military Court against a native of Dagestan, Ibragim Magomedov. He is accused of attacking the republic in 1999 as part of a detachment led by field commanders Shamil Basayev and Khattab.

A criminal case against Irakli Khufeniya has been submitted to the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don. The Georgian citizen was an active participant in the protests in his country and a member of the opposition party "United National Movement".

Former head of Makhachkala Said Amirov, serving a life sentence in the Black Dolphin colony in the Orenburg region, has filed dozens of lawsuits against the administration of the institution. He, being disabled, demands that the conditions of his detention be improved.

Police detained three residents of the city of Kamenskovo in the Vladimir Region, suspected of participating in a conflict with natives of Ingushetia. According to eyewitnesses and victims, the incident was accompanied by nationalist shouts and insults.