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A video with an apology from two participants in the incident with the burning of the New Testament in the Stavropol Territory was posted by Governor Vladimir Vladimirov. The young men have admitted their guilt and promised not to do this again.

In his complaint to the Chechen Prosecutor, Alexander Savin, one of Zarema Musaeva's advocates, has stated that she had been denied due medical treatment for several months, despite the obvious deterioration in her health.

They plan to transfer Omar Murtazaliev, a native of Dagestan, to another correctional institution, but in the meantime he has been returned to the penal colony in the Kurgan Region, where he was held earlier, his advocate has informed.

Some Karachai activists believe that the political rehabilitation of Karachais is over. Their opponents object claiming that the payments for the lost property were grossly inadequate.

Three policemen from Ingushetia, accused of using violence against a detainee and extortion, have been released. The Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia has explained that the period specified by law for the preliminary investigation had expired and their further detention is illegal.

The Novocherkassk garrison military court found Maxim Shirin, who was mobilized in October 2022, guilty of giving a bribe. The court recognized that the man tried to avoid being sent to a combat zone through bribery and to gain protection at service.

Participants of an official event in Karachaevsk, dedicated to the Karachay People Revival Day, paid tribute to the memory of those perished during the years of deportation. Book and photo exhibitions were opened in the republic on the occasion of the 67th anniversary of the return of Karachay people from exile.

Yevgeny Kochegin*, an activist from Volgograd, has been fined for failure to mark his posts on a personal Telegram channel as a foreign agent. The above is reported by the “Dozor Volgograd” Telegram channel.

Three residents of the town of Novoaleksandrovsk have been detained for publicly burning the New Testament down; they are suspected of insulting believers' feelings and hooliganism, investigators have reported.

Arsan Mukaev, a native of Chechnya, sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of killing law enforcers, has died in his penal colony after being beaten up.

The Rostov Regional Court has upheld the sentence of Evgenia Maiboroda, a 72-year-old resident of the city of Shakhty, sentenced to 5.5 years in penal colony on charges of spreading fake news about the Russian Army and calls for extremism.

The district court has granted the request lodged by Igor Nagavkin, a Volgograd human rights defender, to interrogate the author of the examination of his statements, which became the basis for the criminal case against him on disorganization of the work of the SIZO (pre-trial prison).

A court decided to place under house arrest Leila Gatagazheva, a native of Ingushetia, accused of involvement in formations of Syrian militants. Leila Gatagazheva returned to Malgobek from a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Pyatigorsk, human rights defenders reported.

In Krasnodar, a court reconsidered the case instituted against Viktor Morozov for his post on a social network with a photograph of a rainbow flag. Initially, the court did not find any offense in the post, but later agreed with the position voiced by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

The investigation into a case against one of the Makhachkala policemen accused of the detained Kurban Dalgatov’s death has been completed. The case materials have been transferred to the prosecutor’s office for approval of the indictment.

A district court in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has acquitted Kirill Guschin, a Jehovah's Witness*, finding him not guilty of extremism.

On May 1, mass events were organized in all Sochi districts under the slogan "Spring and Labour Day", the city administration has informed. However, this time, the word "peace", which traditionally was part of the holiday slogan, was not mentioned.

At a request of the General Prosecutor’s Office, the “Roskomnadzor” (Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Communications) has blocked access in Russia to the website of the “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial” human rights project.

A video has been posted on the Internet with an apology voiced by Olga Kasyanenko, a resident of Krasnodar, for speaking live about residents of Russia.

In Grozny, an investigator has interrogated Lena Patyaeva within the case of the murder of her friend Seda Suleimanova, who was taken away by her relatives from Saint Petersburg and stopped communicating.