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Today, at the court session in the case against Klykh and Karpyuk, the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has allowed to question a defence witness Maria Tomak, a Ukrainian human rights defender and a journalist, a member of the Centre for Civil Liberties. She testifies about the alibi of the defendants.

Today, at the court session in the case against Klykh and Karpyuk, the Supreme Court (SC) of the Chechen Republic has questioned Tamara Klykh, the defendant's mother. She said that in 1994-1995, Stanislav Klykh was in Ukraine. Other relative have confirmed that Klykh and Karpyuk did not left Ukraine for Chechnya.

The Congress of Ingush Muslims, which was to address the issue of the resignation of Mufti Isa Khamkhoev, was postponed. The procedure has been initiated to dissolve the current Muftiate. This was announced by Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Evkurov.

In South Ossetia, public activists expressed their dissatisfaction about the upcoming concerts of Georgian ensembles in Vladikavkaz. In North Ossetia, a number of organizations called on the authorities of the republic to take measures to cancel those performances.

In Dagestan, a resident of the village of Khebda of the Shamil District has reported that a local police checkpoint was shelled. This was confirmed by the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). As a result of the attack, one of law enforcers was wounded, am ICRF's official reports.

The advocates, who represent the interests of Arghishti Kiviryan, the coordinator of the online edition "Armenia Today", have filed an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) against the court's decision to impose a fine on the activist.

The information about involvement of Dovbash brothers from Belarus and Marat Yunusov, a native of Dagestan, in the terror act in Brussels has been reported by unreliable sources, and such disinformation only intensifies the panic and is beneficial for terrorists. This was stated by Sasha Kulaeva, the head of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Department of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH).

About 100 farmers of nine districts of the Krasnodar Territory have announced their intention to hold a tractor ride to Moscow to file an appeal to President Vladimir Putin. The farmers want to use their action to draw attention to numerous raider takeovers of land plots and violations of their rights.

Investigators have collected sufficient evidence against nine persons accused of mass fight and shootout at the Kizlyar marketplace. This was reported by an official from the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). The defendants and the victims attempted to reconcile, said an activist of the national-cultural autonomy "Tsez People".

The law enforcement bodies have launched the investigation into the criminal cases against Dana Mukova, Alina Chotchaeva, Madina Batchaeva, and Marina Batchaeva, suspected of involvement in the activities of the "Islamic State" (IS), recognized as a terrorist organization.

The ban on leaving Azerbaijan imposed on journalist Isolda Agaeva violates the freedom of movement guaranteed by the Constitution, states her advocate Yalchin Imanov. He intends to go to court.

Residents of Chechnya came to the rally in Grozny with posters reading: "Ramzan Kadyrov is a threat to 'the fifth column'!" and "People stand for Kadyrov!" The mass rally was held in support of Ramzan Kadyrov and not in honour of the Chechen Constitution Day, report participants of the rally.

Before her sentence comes into force, Nadezhda Savchenko, a convicted Ukrainian aviator, will be kept at one of the detention facilities of the Rostov Region, the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) reports.

Activists are engaged in the online collection of signatures against the construction of a mosque in the town of Volzhsky. The people, who sign a petition, believe that there are more important problems in the region. The region actually needs a cathedral mosque; however, no fuss should be made about that.

In Russia, about 7000 websites are cleared of illegitimate information, and law enforcers are engaged in investigation into more than 1000 cases against citizens involved in terrorist groupings in Syria and Iraq. This was reported by Yuri Chaika, General Prosecutor of the Russian Federation.

The investigating authorities of the Krasnodar Territory have accused three natives of Dagestan of preparing a trip to Syria to join the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS), banned in Russia.

The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow has extended until May 27 the detention in custody for Varvara Karaulova (Alexandra Ivanova), accused of attempting to join the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS).

The general director of the "Grozny City" Hotel asked Igor Kalyapin to leave the building because of the criticism voiced by the human rights defender against the leader of Chechnya. This follows from the video, which appeared on March 21 on YouTube.

The North-Caucasian Military District Court has found Temirzhan Eslimesov, a 37-year-old resident of Karachay-Cherkessia, guilty of an attempt to join illegal armed formations (IAFs) in Syria and sentenced him to 2 years and 6 months of imprisonment in a common-security penal colony.

According to the notification filed by organizers of the rally in honour of the 13th anniversary of the adoption of the Chechen Constitution scheduled for March 23, it is expected that the rally will be attended by more than one million participants.