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The Vladikavkaz female student, in support of whom a flash mob on the Facebook was organized, said that threats against her for public dancing have stopped.

The family of Moris Machalikashvili, who is accused of violence during protests in Tbilisi, insists on his conclusion a procedural deal in hope for his speedy release. Machalikashvili denies the charges against him and is ready to admit only that he had accidentally pushed a law enforcer, said his advocate.

The unprecedented level of tensions of the government with the Constitutional Court (CC) threatens the whole judicial system, the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for Armenia have stated.

The additional state support promised by Vladimir Putin will help to remove some of the problems faced by the victims of the terror act on Beslan School No. 1. But it is also necessary to adopt a law on the status of terror act victims, the members of the "Beslan Mothers" committee have pointed out.

The managers of the Makhachkala shelter for domestic violence victims tried to drive into the street those of their clients, who refused to communicate with the media, Svetlana Anokhina, a Dagestani journalist, has reported.

The data of the "Rosstat" (Russian Federal Statistics Service) on the record low unemployment in Ingushetia and Chechnya should not be trusted, as it fails to take into account the informal employment, Professor Natalia Zubarevich has noted.

In 2019, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) revealed that officials at various levels received 244 bribes, said Sergey Bachurin, the head of the Main Department of the Russian MIA for Northern Caucasus, on January 31. "In 2019, the average bribe amounted to 245,000 roubles," the "Interfax-South" quotes him as saying. In total, 101 persons were prosecuted for bribery.

A visitor to the "Tangim" Mosque in Makhachkala said that law enforcers tried, under far-fetched pretext, to detain him after the Friday prayer. Dozens of law enforcers took part in the raid at the mosque.

Djambulat Umarov, a Chechen Minister, has treated the version of rights defenders that by his words about the need to "warn a dozen of troublemakers and villains" he had indirectly confirmed the fact of detentions of the distributors of the photo collage with Kadyrov as inconsistent. At the same time, the minister refrained from asserting that there were no detentions.

Over the past three years, protests in defence of the freedom of assembly have been held in Volgograd in the form of solo pickets; the Mayoralty wouldn't sanction mass actions. Passers-by have supported two activists of the "Strategy-31" campaign, who came out today with posters to the city centre.

The General's Prosecutor Office of Russia refused to bring to court a case against the Khachaturyan sisters accused of killing their father and obliged the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) to re-classify the charge as necessary defence, advocates report. The defenders have also noted that the above resolution "entails the termination of the criminal proceedings."

The positions of the Azerbaijani troops were subjected to shelling attacks, including in the Gadabay District, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports today.

In Chechnya, the authorities build hospitals, mosques, and roads, while residents who ask Ramzan Kadyrov for help disseminate caricatures to the leader of Chechnya in response, Djambulat Umarov, Chechen Minister for National Policy, expressed his indignation.

In Karvachar, senior schoolchildren stopped their protest action against the construction of small hydroelectric power plants (HPPs) and announced their intention to create monitoring groups on the environmental safety of HPPs in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Special agents are forcing Lilia Saidova, accused of financing militants because of transferring money to her brother in Turkey, to give confession and slander a stranger, her father and an advocate assert.

Nikol Pashinyan, the Armenian Premier, has posted on the Facebook a video report of the Republic's Public TV with the details of the criminal case against Grair Tovmasyan. The defence of Tovmasyan has announced its intention to sue the Public TV Channel and the Prime Minister demanding to restore the violated rights of the judge.

The problem of political prisoners in Azerbaijan has not been solved, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has stated in its resolution, calling on the country's authorities to review the cases of convicted activists and journalists.

Turkish doctors have positively assessed the dynamics of the state of health of the Azerbaijani rights defender, Ogtai Gyulyalyev, despite the fact that he is still in coma, said Mekhman Aliev, Director of the "Turan" News Agency.

The decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) obliges Azerbaijani authorities, apart from compensating the harm, to resume the investigation, said the advocate, Ara Gazaryan, who represented at the ECtHR the parents of Manvel Saribekyan, who perished in an Azerbaijani jail.

Residents of Kalmykia have asked the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) to check the statements of Vladimir Shtygashev, the Speaker of the Parliament of Khakassia, about the Stalin deportation of Kalmyks. Batu Khasikov, the head of Kalmykia, has criticized Shtygashev for justifying repressions, but the authors of appeals have found the reaction of republic's authorities too mild.