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The authorities' and clergymen's efforts in Chechnya to reconcile the blood feudists can be assessed as positive, but the reconciliation should not be forced, analysts have noted.

The demand to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev is supported by passers-by, the solo picketers in his support have stated. His friends treat the prison term demanded by the state prosecutor for Gadjiev as unfair.

The provocative law enforcers' actions in the Moscow Region, which demonstrated disrespect for Islam, and the absence of response to demands to bring the participants and organizers of raids in mosques to justice, have caused understandable indignation among Muslims. This was stated by officials of the Muftiates of North Ossetia and Adygea.

A girl dressed in jeans and a tank top has starred in a photo made against the backdrop of the panorama "Storming the Village of Akhulgo" at the Makhachkala Museum. Social network commentators have treated her clothes as too open.

Solo pickets in support of the tried Abdulmumin Gadjiev, an editor of the "Chernovik" (Draft) outlet, were held in Makhachkala by Magomed Magomedov and Idris Yusupov.

Chechen agenda, Ingush activists’ case, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, military aircraft crash in Yeysk, blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, persecution of the opposition in Azerbaijan, 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 July 17-23, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

The practice of public repentance for misdeeds existed earlier in the Chechen society and is provided for by the Muslim law, Islamic experts Alexander Arutyunov and Igor Alekseev point out. Chechen traditions do not provide for compulsion to make public apologies to the authorities, Oyub Titiev, a human rights defender from Chechnya, argues.

Croatian authorities have deported to Bosnia ten natives of Chechnya who had asked for international protection; two others were the granted refugee status, the "Assembly of European Chechens" has informed.

In Krasnodar, Alexei Gaivoronsky, an activist, has been brought to administrative responsibility.

The Astrakhan Garrison Military Court has rejected the lawsuit lodged by the military serviceman, who demanded from hospital bosses a certificate about the wound received by him in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine in order to receive the due compensation. The Southern District Military Court upheld the decision of the Garrison Court.

In the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the mane of the main river), a military court has sentenced Alexander Shupletsov, a mobilized local resident, to six years in colony, finding him guilty of leaving his military unit without permission.

A court in the city of Adler has fined a local resident for discrediting the Russian Army and arrested him for 15 days. According to the police, he tried to destroy a metal structure bearing the letters "Z" and "V", and when law enforcers noticed him, he tried to escape and used foul language.

The defence of Oleg Orlov, a co-chairman of the "Memorial" Centre for Human Rights Defence, has doubted the quality of the expertise conducted by Alexander Tarasov, noting many errors and vague arguments.

Protest actions were held in front of the Embassies of Switzerland in Germany and Sweden with the demand to prevent the deportation of Ali Bataev, who arrived from Ukraine, to Russia, reports Mokhmad Abdurakhmanov, a spokesperson for the Chechen human rights association “Vayfond”.

The participants of the actions held in Switzerland, Austria and Germany came out to the streets against the deportation to Russia of Ali Bataev, a native of Chechnya.

The decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the complaints about beating by law enforcers and an administrative arrest won't affect Russian authorities and will never be executed, Mikhail Benyash* has pointed out.

After the prayer held in the historic mosque in Moscow, believers held a march chanting "Allah Akbar"; in this way, they expressed their protest against law enforcers' raids on the mosques located near Moscow. Ramzan Kadyrov has condemned the marchers for their unsanctioned protest.

The defence of Oleg Orlov, a co-chairman of the "Memorial" Centre for Human Rights Defence, accused of discrediting the Russian Army, has declared the linguistic experts' incompetence and bias and demanded to exclude their expertise from the case files. The court in Moscow refused to grant this petition.

The Krasnodar Territorial Court cancelled the conviction of two former law enforcers in a case on beating Yevgeny Manchenko, a person with disabilities. The defence plans to file an appeal against the court’s decision.

The Southern District Military Court has upheld the non-custodial punishment imposed on Corporal Eduard Bitarov, who murdered his wife in the affective state; his participation in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine was treated as a mitigating circumstance.