According to Platts and Kommersant, refineries with capacity of about 40 million tons a year have resumed exchange fuel sales. Lines at gas stations have eased in some regions, but gasoline supply and prices remain under pressure.
Supporters of Richard Rose published a letter in which he says a new case accuses him of justifying terrorism and rehabilitating Nazism. His wife says the prosecution may be linked to his letters and jailhouse conversations.
According to Novaya Gazeta Europe, the Baisangur Benoevsky Rosgvardiya battalion linked to Adam Kadyrov mostly stays in Grozny and rarely fights in the war, although its personnel received federal payments.
Sources cited by Novaya Gazeta Europe and rights defenders say Chechen district police were ordered to send 25–50 residents to war each month. Detainees are allegedly held in two centers and dispatched to the front without training.
According to Novaya Europe, at least 21 Russian politicians lost the ability to run in elections after fines and arrests in cases over “extremist” symbols. Members of Yabloko were targeted most often.