The Vilegodsky District Court of the Arkhangelsk Region has sentenced Sergey Yakimov, the head of the Urdomskoye municipality, who is also known as a participant in the environmental protest at Shies, to two and a half years in a general regime penal colony. The basis for the sentence was
According to Novaya Gazeta Europe, which studied information from leaked tax service documents, Fanis Sadykov—one of the developers of the increasingly popular Russian application Telega, positioned as an alternative to Telegram—was an employee of the company VK from May to July 2025.
In Moscow, the head of the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) Andrey Melnikov was detained. Reports about this were published by the news agencies Interfax and RBC.
In Armenia, the mayor of Gyumri Vardan Gukasyan, chief architect Henrik Gasparyan, and six other individuals were detained on suspicion of receiving and giving bribes. This information was disseminated by the country's Anti-Corruption Committee.
The Azerbaijani news agency APA, citing informed sources, reports that the Russian side has handed over to Baku a plan developed by former head of the Azerbaijani presidential administration Ramiz Mehdiyev for establishing control over state power.