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In Strasbourg, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) awarded the compensation of 9750 euros to former Sochi judge Dmitry Novikov, recognizing his long detention and the use of a metal cage in the courtroom as ungrounded.

Experts have treated the pro-Ukrainian nickname that a resident of Cherkessk used to call himself in an online game as a demonstration of extremist organizations' symbols.

A court in Crimea has sentenced a resident of the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river) to 6.5 years in penal colony, finding him guilty of trying to get to Ukraine to take part in hostilities against Russian troops.

The prosecutor has demanded from the Elista court to find Jehovah's Witnesses* Kishta Tutinova, Tsagan Khalgaeva and Ekaterina Menkova guilty of extremism and sentence them to various suspended (conditional) prison terms. The defence has demanded to acquit the defendants.

The police drew up a protocol against Idris Yusupov*, a journalist from Makhachkala, for ignoring the restrictions arising from the status of a foreign agent.

Shakhban Magomedov, a resident of Dagestan, accused in a case on mass unrest at an airport in Makhachkala, has been transferred from a SIZO (pre-trial prison) to house arrest in connection with his disability and the need for medical treatment.

Kevin Lik, 18, a Maykop resident, convicted of treason, has been transferred to serve his sentence from Adygea to a penal colony located in the Arkhangelsk Region.

The police refused to take an application about kidnapping of her child by her husband, a native of Chechnya Sh., but the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has got interested in the case, Maria Smelaya, a Krasnodar resident, has informed.

The proposal put forward by Vladislav Davankov, the Russian State Duma Deputy Speaker, to ban religious clothing in schools is populist and discriminatory from the viewpoint of the law and is aimed against the Russian Muslim community, Islamic scholars, lawyers and human rights defenders have stated.

In memory of politician, Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Telpuk, an activist, has laid flowers at the monument to victims of political repressions in Volgograd. According to Vladimir, he was filmed by the hosts of a local TV channel, Sergey Mazanov and Roman Potolovsky, who asked him provocative questions.

Murat Khokonov, who after his dismissal achieved reinstatement in his position at the Kabardino-Balkarian State University, said that he had received an order suspending him from work.

In Khasavyurt, after reconsideration of a criminal case, a court sentenced Shakhban Abakargadjiev to five years of forced labour, finding him guilty of spreading fake news about Russian militaries. The “OVD-Info”* human rights project reported about the verdict to Shakhban Abakargadjiev on its website.

In Krasnodar, the police drew up a protocol under the article on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces against a man detained at a solo picket with a pacifist appeal near an administration building.

About 30 people from different regions have come to the debate session on the case of three Jehovah's Witnesses* from Elista, accused of extremist activities.

The inquiry into the case of Kadi Gadjiev, a resident of Dagestan, whom investigators treat as a cell member of the extremist organization "Union of Rus' Slavic Forces"*, is over.

A court concluded that an investigation into the case on a car hitting Sergey Sopnev, a resident of the Predgorny District, who as a result got his leg amputated and became disabled, was conducted ineffectively and led to a violation of the victim’s rights.

The court has fined Pavel Prokudin, a Volgograd blogger, by 60,000 roubles under administrative charges of discrediting the Russian Army and petty hooliganism.

In Sochi, a court imposed a fine on pensioner Elena Yanmurzina in a criminal case for attempting to spoil ballots at a polling station.

Alina Alekseitseva, the wife of a Chechen resident, has complained to human rights defenders that he was beating her and their children. Earlier, the man's other wife, Maria Smelaya, made similar complaints.

Rinat Kiramov, a Jehovah's Witness* from Akhtubinsk, who is serving his sentence for extremism, has complained that his cellmates had tortured him for several days, demanding that he slander other believers.