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The appellate instance has upheld the verdict passed to Dmitry Martynenko, a resident of Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), who was sentenced to five years and three months in colony for unauthorized abandonment of his military unit. The expiration of the contract is not the basis for service termination, the judge has stated.

In Makhachkala, a court has arrested an inspector of the patrol-and-post police service (known as PPS) for two months in a criminal case on the death of detained Akhmed Djabrailov.

In Tuapse, a court fined Baptist pastor Anatoly Mukhin 5000 roubles, finding him guilty of illegal missionary activities.

The police returned to Dagestani journalist Idris Yusupov* his laptops and other office equipment, confiscated during a search. However, the journalist’s demand to justify the search remained unanswered.

The conducted forensic examination has confirmed that Akhmed Djabrailov, detained by police in Makhachkala, died of suffocation, Shamil Khadulaev, the head of the Dagestani Public Oversight Commission (POC) has informed.

The prosecutor’s office drew up an administrative protocol on failure to fulfil the duties of a foreign agent against human rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina*, who, while sending in her personal correspondence the information on the case against Ingushetia resident Leyla Gatagazheva, did not indicate her status of a foreign agent.

It is necessary to investigate the actions of the operative headquarters aimed to rescue the hostages, as well as the facts established in court, the co-chair of "Beslan Mothers" has clarified after the demand to President Putin to complete the investigation.

The commander of a unit of the patrol regiment, who used violence against Akhmed Djabrailov, the detained participant in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, has been detained within the case of abuse of office and intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm.

The militants who committed the terror act in Beslan received support from abroad, the Russian President said at a meeting with "Beslan Mothers". Twenty years after the terror act, its investigation has not been completed, the victims' mothers have reminded.

Officials from the authorities and the security agencies have not responded to appeals from parents of Akhmed Djabrailov, who died at a police department in Makhachkala after being detained.

The police conducted searches and seized a PC and other office equipment from home of an activist from the Rostov Region who took part in the campaign to register Boris Nadezhdin as a candidate for the presidential election. The law enforcers attempted to conduct searches at the places of residence of two other local activists.

For the first time since the terror act committed back in 2004, Russian President has visited the building of School No. 1 in Beslan although he had earlier been to Beslan several days after the terror act and in 2008. He has also visited the memorial to the victims, kneeling before it and crossing himself.

A lawyer from Rostov-on-Don is scared after an attack on her, and she intends to file a complaint to the police, her friends say. People with firearms came to the house where human rights defender Maxim Vedoprav lived earlier. He and his girlfriend made public the information about the violation of the rights of military personnel who refused to participate in combat operations.

For three years already, villagers of Kulibukhna, which is part of the Tsudakhar Village Council of the Levashinsky District, have been seeking to overhaul the road along which their children walk to school, and ambulances cannot pass, the villagers have explained the reasons for their video appeal to President Putin.

Elon Musk, an American entrepreneur, has stated that he had not presented a Tesla Cybertruck to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.

In Rostov-on-Don, an unknown man attacked a female lawyer who provides legal assistance to the militaries, who refused to take part in military operations.

Alaudinov admits Chechen fighters being captured by Ukraine, elections in the southern regions of the Russian Federation, drone attacks, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, Georgian journalists stand against the law on foreign agents, and official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 12-18, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

The memorial plaque dedicated to Daut Keshev has already been destroyed three times. While earlier this had to do with his descendants' role in the establishment of Soviet power in Kabardino-Balkaria, now the destruction is connected with the general's participation in the Russian-Turkish War on the side of the tsarist army, his great-great-grandson is sure.

A court in Astrakhan has fined a local resident by 30,000 roubles, treating his comment posted in a messenger as aimed at discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

Russian authorities will try to exchange the fighters of the "Akhmat-Chechnya" unit captured in the Kursk Region, experts have suggested. Once returned, fighters will have to apologize and go back to the frontline, human rights defenders believe.