Yulia Volkova, a professor at Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg, found herself at the center of a scandal over offensive remarks directed at an Azerbaijani child. After photos of her former student Rashad Agayev's family were published, she called his daughter "ugly" and made derogatory remarks about the appearance of children in Azerbaijani families.

The Prosecutor's Office has requested a 12-year prison sentence in a general regime penal colony for Yakub Belkhoroev, the former head of the Ingush Social Insurance Fund, in Moscow's Presnensky Court. He is accused of embezzling nearly 14 million rubles in budget funds, distributed among close associates under the guise of insurance payments for fictitious industrial accidents.

The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry condemned the burning of the Turkish flag that took place on April 23 in Yerevan during a torchlight procession. The ministry stated that the Armenian authorities should have prevented the procession in a timely manner, calling it "an expression of deep-rooted ethnic hatred."

Dagestani resident Vadim Abdullaev was sentenced by the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don to 14 years in prison for allegedly plotting a terrorist attack on a school in Makhachkala and recruiting supporters of the Islamic State (IS). There is no information about the defense or Abdullaev's position in the case file.