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The murder in Vienna of the blogger, Mamikhan Umarov, was a punishment for insulting and criticizing the Chechen leadership, Instagram users believe. Umarov's brother was killed; his mother was bullied in order to find out the whereabouts of her son, the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, has pointed out.

Ramzan Kadyrov's statement about the veracity of the voter turnout on the vote on constitutional amendments looks unconvincing amid stories of state servants about coercion to vote, social network users assert.

Mamikhan Umarov, whose murder in Vienna on July 4 was reported by sources, became famous for his harsh criticism and insults to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, his relatives and his adviser Shaa Turlaev. A similar style of criticizing Kadyrov was used by Mansur Stary, the blogger assassinated in France.

A team of killers has arrived in Moscow from Grozny "to neutralize the remnants of the opposition," Vladimir Osechkin, the founder of the Gulagu.net project, stated one day before the court's decision to arrest him in absentia. Osechkin has linked his criminal prosecution with the attempts of special services to take control over his human rights project.

Azerbaijani legislation has collisions regarding the conditional early relief (CER); and they are often used to refuse applying CER to political prisoners, rights defenders have claimed in their comments to the case of oppositional leader, Babek Gasanov.

A court in the city Sumgait has left Djavid Mamedzade under arrest. The activist has every reason to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) claiming to recognize his arrest illegal, his advocate believes.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has appointed his relative, Khas-Magomed Kadyrov, earlier the Mayor of the city of Argun, to the post of the Secretary of the Security Council of the republic. Kadyrov continues strengthening his power by appointing his relatives and fellow villagers to leadership positions, despite their age and managerial skills, Instagram users and residents of Chechnya have noted.

Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov was buried in the village of Kirovaul, Kizilyurt District; the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, came to express his condolences to his relatives.

In Sochi, a memorial sign has been installed in the place of the fort built by Russian troops in 1837 during the Caucasian War. This sign will split the society, Zurab Gadjiev believes. Any mentioning of the terrible events of the Caucasian War is painful for the Circassian people, Ruslan Gvashev, an activist, has explained.

Residents of Dagestan, Chechnya and the Krasnodar Territory are promised to have their money prepaid for the Hajj travel within two weeks; while in Kabardino-Balkaria, they had not taken money in advance. The decision of the Saudi authorities to abolish the international Hajj is justified in the pandemic condition; Islam admits Hajj non-fulfilment in case of an emergency, theologians have stated.

The investigation conducted by the Georgian State Security Service (SSS) regarding the story of the "Mtavari Arkhi" TV Channel about the coronavirus situation in Marneuli violates the media freedom, Nino Lomdjariya, the Ombudsperson of Georgia, has stated. Initiating a case against the TV Channel for a journalistic plot is unacceptable, the Coalition "For Media Advocacy" believes.

The mother and brother of Khusei Makitov, the murdered resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), filed a lawsuit demanding compensation for moral harm, estimated by them at 5 million roubles. The family's advocate insists that the FSB should pay the money, not the convicted officer Pavel Sterlyagov.

People arrested in a criminal case on protest actions at a tent camp arranged on the border of Dagestan and Azerbaijan believe that they are not guilty. The authorities of the Derbent District and the national-cultural autonomy of Azerbaijanis report different numbers of people who now stay at the tent camp.

A court in Cherkessk, the capital of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), has left three residents of the city of Teberda accused of illegal arms dealing, in custody. Their relatives wrote complaints about law enforcers, who had taken the detainees for several days to Chechnya.

In his petition to the president of Azerbaijan, activist Anar Mamedli noted that in country's penitentiary institutions, prisoners face the risk of the coronavirus infection. The activist called for mercy on political prisoners and people who did not commit serious crimes.

Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov, a father and a coach of Khabib Nurmagomedov, a Dagestani mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, died. This was reported by his relatives, the "Makhachkala Izvestia" reports.

Activists have treated the refusal to use the conditional early relief (CER) in relation to the Azerbaijani oppositionist Babek Gasanov as discrimination on political grounds. The defence has appealed against the court judgement.

Five members of an extremist organization in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) have advocated the creation of a caliphate in Northern Caucasus; they stored weapons and banned literature, the Russian FSB (Federal Security Bureau) said.

The statement of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Chechnya about the high citizens' activeness during the vote on amendments to the Constitution of Russia were sceptically perceived by residents of the republic, who called the numbers "exaggerated" and the vote itself a farce.

The criminal case of Mikhail Zhigunov, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), accused of involvement in the terrorist community in the Kalmyk colony, the organizer of which is considered by investigators to be Shakhban Gasanov, who was killed in 2015 in Khasavyurt, has been sent to court.