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The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) has partially satisfied the complaint lodged by Teimur Kerimov, the head of the YouTube resource “Kanal-11”, by reducing his prison term from eight to seven years. The defence insists on Kerimov's innocence and intends to appeal against the verdict at the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan.

The case of five residents of Ingushetia, who had failed to inform law enforcers about their acquaintances who had sworn allegiance to a terrorist organization, has been sent to court.

Mansur Movlaev, a native of Chechnya, has been detained by law enforcers in Kazakhstan. Chechen activists fear that Movlaev’s extradition to Russia threatens with torture.

An armed attack was committed in Ardon, where an unidentified person shelled people at a car wash station and fled. One person was killed on the spot, and two others were wounded. One of them stays in severe condition.

The court dismissed the cassation appeal filed by the defence of Oleg Orlov* and upheld the sentence of the human rights defender in the case on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

In Grozny, a court has begun considering an administrative case against blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov*, who is accused under the article on violating the rules and regulations of foreign agent activity. The blogger, who lives abroad, reports that he intends to ignore the charges against him and the trial.

A court in the Stavropol Territory has sentenced four residents of Dagestan to 10 years in colony each, treating them as rioters at the Makhachkala Airport. The number of people convicted within the "airport case" has reached 105.

The Investigating Committee (IC) of Armenia has found no grounds for initiating a criminal case against law enforcers after a statement made by Tigran Ulubabyan, a refugee from Nagorno-Karabakh, at a police station. Out of hundreds of reports of torture by law enforcers in Armenia, only a few are being investigated, human rights defenders have noted.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has sentenced Grigory Melkonyants to five years in a general regime penal colony.

After an incident in a Sochi kindergarten, parents of the children accused the kindergarten’s administration of concealing facts of child abuse and failing to act in response to complaints. At the same time, the prosecutor’s office drew up administrative protocols against the parents themselves, accusing them of insulting the kindergarten principal and her daughter.

The participants in the attack in Makhachkala had been planning the terrorist attack for about six months, the law enforcement bodies have concluded. The leader of Dagestan has promised to nominate the police inspectors for awards.

Investigators suspect Yuri Lysenko, the head of the Novocherkassk administration, of receiving a large-amount bribe from a developer. Yuri Lysenko has been caught red-handed, a source in the law enforcement bodies claims.

Activists have sent more than 5000 signatures in signature sheets and 2000 electronic signatures demanding to hold an investigation into Seda Suleimanova's case to the Russian Presidential Administration.

Adam Kadyrov has received the jubilee medal "25 years of ‘Akhmat-Grozny’ OMON"; the awarding was held in front of the Russian coat of arms without crosses.

The arrest of Artyom Ostanin, a comedian from the city of Yeysk, was extended by a month; a Moscow court has dismissed the defence’s notion to transfer Ostanin to house arrest.

By demonstratively refusing to attend the Victory Parade in Moscow, the President of Azerbaijan has underlined the geopolitical role of his country that has grown since the victory in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh and the desire to build relations with Russia only on an equal footing. Moscow is capable of responding harshly to the Ilham Aliev’s demarche, but the risks of such a development are minimal, Russian analysts believe.

Irakli Khufeniya, a resident of Zugdidi, who participated in protests against the policies of the “Georgian Dream” Party, has been accused by the Russian law enforcement bodies of calling for terrorism.

In Cherkessk, a court has sentenced Alexei Safonov, the former chief of the Stavropol Territory GIBDD (road police), who became well-known for his mansion with a “golden toilet,” to 20 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony in a case on multi-million-rouble bribes for cargo transportation in violation of the rules and regulations.

Said Amirov, a former Makhachkala Mayor, who uses a wheelchair, has filed several dozen lawsuits demanding to improve his custody conditions in the colony for life-sentenced prisoners.

Tourists have cancelled 60% of bookings at a large Anapa hotel; and they have already received more than two million roubles back. Employees of another hotel have confirmed that their bookings have dropped several-fold after the fuel oil (mazut) spill.