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Four staff members of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) of the Committee against Torture, which office in Grozny was attacked by unidentified men in masks, are out of danger. This was reported by one of them.

When commenting on the attack on the office of rights defenders in Grozny, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said that illegal actions will be suppressed regardless of the motives for those illegal actions. According to Ramzan Kadyrov, the incident involved relatives of Djambulat Dadaev, who was killed by policemen of Stavropol.

Last night, an armed clash occurred in the Suleiman-Stalsky District of Dagestan. Two law enforces were wounded during the shootout.

Two residents of the Nadterechny District of Chechnya have been detained on suspicion of aiding and abetting members of the armed underground. This was reported by an official of the law enforcement agencies of the Chechen Republic.

In Grozny, the office of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) was attacked after the authorities had announced the action against the information war against Russia and the Chechen Republic. According to the Chechen TV Channel, local residents held a spontaneous rally in front of the JMG's office against the politicization of human rights activities.

In the Untsukul District of Dagestan, the operational headquarters of the republic has introduced the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime.

YouTube has blocked because of copyright infringement the film "The Family" about Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov prepared by the "Open Russia", a public organization led by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. According to the "Open Russia", the film has been viewed more than 900,000 times during a week.

In the case of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, the case materials include no murder weapon. The advocates are not aware of the allegedly appointed examination. This was declared by Shamsudin Tsakaev, an advocate of Zaur Dadaev.

The defence of Mukhammad Magomedov, one of the leaders of the public organization "The League of the Just", suspected of illegal possession and manufacture of weapons, reports that he has been officially charged.

The announcement of interrogation protocols of the victims in the case of Ali Taziev, also known as "Magas", continues in Rostov-on-Don.

The Zolsky District Court has appointed an examination of the video record of the interrogation of Zaur Tokhov, a resident of the village of Kamennomostskoye of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), accused of aiding militants.

The motions to be moved by the defence in the case of Said Amirov, the ex-mayor of Makhachkala, will be heard only after questioning the prosecution witnesses, the court held after the prosecutor has criticized his counterparts for trying to protract the trial.

The court has sentenced Alimkhan Temirov, a resident of the Stavropol Territory, found guilty of taking part in the warfare in Syria as a member of the ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), to two years in colony.

Only 3% of Russian residents consider it necessary to allow polygamy to the country's Muslim nations, showed the opinion poll conducted by the All-Russian Centre for Studying Public Opinion (known as VTsIOM).

The defendant Ilya Goryachev, accused of organizing the extremist community "Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists" (known as BORN), has refused to plead guilty during a session at the Moscow City Court (MCC).

Law enforcers have detained a resident of Grozny on suspicion of aiding members of illegal armed formations (IAFs).

The members of the committee "Mothers of Beslan" have addressed Valentina Matvienko, the head of the Russia's Federation Council, asking to add 66 children to the list of victims of the 2004 terror act and provide them with the due social benefits.

Dagestani authorities have extended the operation of buying out illegally possessed firearms and ammunition from the local population until the end of 2015.

In Stavropol, within the construction of the territorial perinatal centre in the territory of the Taman Forest, they plan a new tree felling, the activists said.

Systematic deductions are made from salaries of doctors, teachers and policemen, while the final recipients of the deduced money are unknown, said the Chechen residents working in the budget-funded sector interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".