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.

The US House of Representatives signed a resolution calling on Baku to release Gubad Ibadoglu, a scientist and economist, chairman of the Movement for Democracy and Prosperity of Azerbaijan party.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ordered the Russian authorities to pay one thousand euros each to Zelimkhan Dudayev, Said Asadullaev and Umar Baysiev. Natives of Chechnya were subjected to inhumane treatment during their transfer to places of detention.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan approved the sentence to local resident Makhmud Ibadulaev - two years and two months in prison. He was found guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist organization called “Citizens of the USSR” (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation has put Magomed Gadzhiev, a former State Duma deputy from Dagestan, on the wanted list. Information about this appeared in the database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. It says that he is wanted under a criminal article, but its name is not specified.

The Nalchik garrison court sentenced contract soldier Magomed Albogachiev to five years in a general regime colony. He was found guilty under the article on abandoning a military unit.

Murad Shuaibov, who was found dead in Karelian correctional colony No. 7 in Segezha, was subjected to torture, said lawyer Asad Jafirov. This happened in IK-9 of Petrozavodsk.

In Simferopol, security forces detained and later released lawyer Emil Kurbedinov. He was issued a report under the article on abuse of freedom of mass information (Part 9 of Article 13.15 of the Administrative Code). The reason for the detention and fine was Kurbedinov’s post on the rules for granting a deferment from conscription.