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.

The second animator of the quest room in Makhachkala, where two girls burned alive, was detained on suspicion of providing unsafe services. The suspect was interrogated. Law enforcement officers will insist on his detention.

The Minister of Press of Chechnya stood up for blogger Askhab Tamaev in a conflict with the head of the “Safe Internet League” Ekaterina Mizulina. She called Tamaev a “scammer” (from the English scam - “scam, fraud”) and accused him of involving children in gambling. According to Mizulina, the blogger “does not respect Islam, which prohibits casinos.” More details in our video.

Bailiffs of the Russian Federation, at the request of the tax service, initiated enforcement proceedings against the ex-champion of the Fighting Championship (UFC), a native of Dagestan, Khabib Nurmagomedov. The document shows a debt amount of 79.2 million rubles.