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The cassation instance has upheld the verdict to Magomed Atimagomedov and Daud Kuramagomedov, Dagestan natives, who were sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a colony employee in Kalmykia. The instance has treated the convicts' arguments about self-incrimination under torture as unconvincing.

Boris Stomakhin, a publicist, who has served prison terms for publications about the terror acts in Volgograd and the armed conflict in Chechnya, has been declared wanted. The RIA "Novosti", citing a source, has reported that Stomakhin is a figurant in a criminal case for spreading fake news about the Russian Army in connection with his posts in social networks.

The calls to release those accused of taking part in the riots organized at the Makhachkala Airport were initiated by their relatives or friends.

In his final speech, Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev has requested court to fully acquit him in the case on financing terrorism. However, the military court of appeal only reduced by two months the sentences for Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Kemal Tambiev, and Abubakar Rizvanov.

Viktor Pivovarov, a priest from Slavyansk-on-Kuban, has been subjected to stalking after the start of a criminal prosecution in a case on fakes about the Russian Army. The stalker threatens Viktor Pivovarov, insults him online, and disseminate false messages about him.

In Elista, the capital of Kalmykia, several activists joined the "Names Return" action of commemorating victims of political repressions.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has upheld the verdict passed to Eduard Ataev, an activist from Dagestan, within the case of possessing a grenade and narcotic drugs, ignoring the arguments of the defence and Ataev's statements of his innocence.

The detention of Evgeny Skidanov, a resident of Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) in 2019 has been recognized as illegal, but the police would not apologize. Investigators refused to open a case on Skidanov's torture for 15 times.

An investigator questioned Zarema Musaeva concerning an attack on a penal colony warder who accompanied her to hospital. Zarema Musaeva claims she did not attack anyone.

The statement voiced by Ramzan Kadyrov about the deaths of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) in Gudermes as a result of a drone attack can be regarded as their use as a “human shield” and hostages.

Chechen advocate Timur Idalov, accused in a case on threats to a public prosecutor, was detained in Grozny and taken to Moscow.

The work to establish the names of the repressed people and rehabilitate the victims in the Volgograd Region cannot be treated as complete, but in the conditions of the deliberate silencing the repressions by local authorities, there are no resources to continue the work.

Chechen authorities should not interfere with the decisions of the authorities of another region on the issue of wearing hijabs in schools, users of the public pages in the city of Vladimir are sure.

Activists in Nalchik have commemorated victims of political repressions by recalling the fates of their family members who were repressed during the Soviet years.

Authorities and law enforcers in Northern Caucasus are helping families in searching their relatives for the purpose of "honour killings", including LGBT* people. Transferring the inquiry into such cases to other countries could help solve the problem.

Hundreds of people gathered at the memorial complex to the victims of repression to honour the memory of the victims of the Ossetian-Ingush conflict which occurred in the autumn of 1992.

A protest action against the deportation of Selima Khadisova was held in Vienna. In Russia, the woman has been accused of having ties to illegal armed formations (IAFs). The Chechen diaspora claims that the woman fled from domestic violence.

The leader of Chechnya suggested that young fellow countrymen leading an idle lifestyle serve in the Russian Army and thereby prove their commitment to traditional values.

During her stream, Vera Egorenkova, a trash streamer from the city of Oryol, spat at the image of the "Motherland Calls!" monument in Volgograd and hit it with a rag.

After he burned down and trampled on the printed newspaper version while advertising a store, a Dagestani blogger has apologized to the editorial board of the "As-Salam" newspaper and all the Muslims. The editorial board has demanded that the actors of the video clip be held accountable and called on people to refrain from shopping in that store.