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After more than 12 years, a reconsideration of the verdict against journalist Elena Nadtoka, sentenced for criticizing the Mayor of Novocherkassk, is connected with the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which recognized that the Russian authorities had violated the Elena Nadtoka's right to freedom of expression.

Residents of the street, renamed in honour of Magomed Nurbagandov and his brother Abdurashid, express regret about the forthcoming paper red tape. The Makhachkala residents, who will not be affected by these problems, support the renaming decision. Among locals, there are those, to whom Nurbagandov surname says nothing, as well as those who would not like to change anything.

No information on the whereabouts of Idris Abzagirov, a resident of the Dagestani village of Korkmaskala, is available since April 11, his relatives assert. According to their story, investigators allude that Abzagirov was in the car burned out after the shootout, but "they say nothing directly."

The Adler District Court made an absurd decision to deport Anzor Arslanuk, a Russian citizen, to Syria, Oksana Trenbach, his advocate, has stated. Arslanuk has dual citizenship, his mother Tamara Stas has noted.

Sevinj Vagifgizi, a freelance journalist, was detained at the Central Office of the State Border Service (SBS) of Azerbaijan, when she wanted to find out the fate of Afghan Mukhtarly, brought to Baku from Tbilisi.

The truckers' reluctance to quarrel with the Kremlin and the absence of mass actions make their protests imperceptible to authorities. With such an attitude, they will face difficulties in getting any essential population's support, Dmitry Oreshkin, a political scientist, and Alexei Malashenko, a member of the Scientific Board of the Moscow Carnegie Centre, have stated.

Afgan Mukhtarly, an Azerbaijani journalist, who was searched by his relatives, was taken from Tbilisi to Baku, and is kept in the Central Department of the State Border Service (SBS) of Azerbaijan, the advocate Nemat Kerimli has reported.

During 2016, in Karachay-Cherkessia, the number of residents with incomes below the subsistence minimum increased by 5200 people, the "Rosstat" (Russian Federal State Statistics Service) reports.

The students' dissatisfaction with the introduction of a state exam at the Azerbaijani State University of Languages (ASUL) will be taken into account by the University's Academic Council of the. The decision is pending on May 31, said Djeikhun Bairamov, Deputy Minister of Education of Azerbaijan.

Since May 29, the whereabouts of Afghan Mukhtarly, an Azerbaijani investigative journalist, who has been living in Tbilisi since 2014, is unknown. He is well known for criticizing the authorities of Azerbaijan.

Sergey Lavrov, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, has said that his Ministry "does not see a single fact" of violations of the rights of LGBT community in Chechnya. Tatiana Moskalkova, Russian Human Rights Commissioner, has added that she did not receive any appeal from gays from Chechnya.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has invited the President of France to visit Chechnya in order to personally see the situation with the rights of minorities. A day earlier, simultaneously with the President Vladimir Putin's visit to Paris, the first gay refugee from Chechnya arrived in France, human rights defenders report.

In Volgograd, Anna Pobezhimova and Victor Shilin, activists of the "All-Russian Parents' Resistance", who held solo pickets, were brought to the police.

In Moscow, the annual festival "Intermuseum" has ended. At the festival, four projects from Dagestan were presented, and one of them was granted an award of the Union of Russian Museums named after L.A. Alexandrova. Museums from Krasnodar and Ingushetia could not take part in the festival because of lack of funding.

Today, the Presidium of the Astrakhan Regional Court has considered a cassation appeal filed by advocate Tatiana Ivanushkina against the verdict to nationalist Igor Stenin and pronounced the decision to close the case because of the absence of corpus delicti.

Two residents of Chechnya left Grozny for Saudi Arabia on bicycles. They plan to arrive there by late August.

The NATO Parliamentary Assembly (PA) in Georgia has justified the expectations of Georgian politicians. Victor Dolidze believes that NATO is optimistic about Georgia's membership. According to Irakli Sesiashvili, Chairman of the Defence and Security Committee, such an event held in a country that is not a NATO member will affect its future steps in the organization.

An anticorruption rally held in Makhachkala had nothing in common with the actions held by Alexei Navalny's supporters: participants of the event did not criticize the federal centre, but asked for help. This was noted by Dagestani journalists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The court has dismissed an appeal filed against the arrest of 80-year-old Yuri Babayan, accused of damaging a gas pipe. According to investigators, the above damage caused an explosion in a residential building in University Avenue in Volgograd. This was reported by Olga Tokareva, Senior PR Assistant to the Volgograd Regional Prosecutor.

After leaving their camp in Khimki, truckers moved to hold the action at the sixth kilometre of the Moscow Ring Highway (known as MKAD). In total, Moscow hosts three protest camps, the Association of Russian Carriers (known as OPR) has reported.