Novaya Gazeta confirms that the man behind an assassination in Berlin has ties to a special forces group within the Russian FSB. Sentences are handed down for another group of pro-democracy protesters in the Moscow Case. State-linked Russian companies get caught trying to dodge U.S. sanctions, members of an indigenous group take Russia’s Environment Ministry to court and Chechen law enforcement kidnaps a video blogger after he exposes the lavish properties belonging to the local ruling elite in Southern Russia.