Azerbaijani journalist Polad Aslanov, sentenced to 13 years, reported that the prosecutor’s office did not forward decisions on his complaints.

The Armenian leadership, under far-fetched pretexts, distorting the history of the last three years, is deliberately leading to the collapse of relations with the Russian Federation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with Izvestia.

In Cherkessk, Jehovah's Witness Vladimir Fomin was sent to a pre-trial detention center in the case of an extremist organization. During the meeting, a believer with a group II disability lost consciousness and had to call an ambulance.

Law enforcement officers detained the chairman of the Magas district court, Magomed Aushev, and the judge of the Supreme Court of the republic, Sergei Boychuk. They are accused of receiving bribes from representatives of the Batalkhadzhin organized crime community in order to give them lenient sentences.

FSB officers published a video of the detention in the Kherson region of Ukraine of 66-year-old Crimean Tatar Bilyal Abdurakhmanov, who opposed the annexation of Crimea. A criminal case has been initiated against him under Part 2 of Art. 208 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in an illegal armed formation). The man faces up to 15 years in prison.

Convict Zarema Musayeva began to experience severe swelling and her eyesight sharply deteriorated in a colony settlement in the Chechen city of Argun. This was announced by Team Against Torture lawyer Alexander Savin. Musaeva said that at the hospital where she had recently been admitted, she was diagnosed with cataracts and prescribed new medications.

There will be no Russian border guards at Yerevan Zvartnots Airport until August 1. Speaker of Parliament Alen Simonyan stated this.

Convicted 70-year-old co-chairman of the Memorial Center Oleg Orlov, at the request of judge Elena Astakhova, is taken from the pre-trial detention center to the court every day to familiarize himself with the case materials and brought back only at night. Most often, he spends the entire day in a convoy room, deprived of rest, hot food and full communication with a lawyer.

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan approved the decision to arrest until May 1 a native of Dagestan, the author of the YouTube channel “Wild Paratrooper” Askhabali Alibekov in the case of using violence against a police officer.

Islam Batsiev was detained in the Dagestan city of Bayramaul. He is suspected of participating in an attack on Pskov paratroopers in Chechnya in 2000 during the Russian-Chechen war.