From September 22 to 23, a group of public inspectors of the All-Russian Society for Nature Conservation Valery Brinikh, Yuri Vorovsky and Igor Korotkov held inspection on the territory of the natural monument of republican significance “Colchian boxwood array”, created in Adygea in 2004. Earlier, environmentalists received a signal that large-scale harvesting was taking place on the territory of the natural monument. wood.

Judge Diana Belyak of the Leninsky District Court of Krasnodar granted the prosecutor's request and arrested lawyer Mikhail Benyash for two months. The broadcast from the courtroom was conducted by journalist Alexander Savelyev. The lawyers defending Benyash asked for house arrest or release on bail, but the judge sided with the prosecutor's office.