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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.

The apologies by Abu Banov, a member of the Board of Elders of Circassian People, for his words about Karachais were unlikely to be the result of coercion, as it happens in Chechnya, since forced apologies are not practiced in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), analysts have pointed out.

During the week from April 22 to 28, 2024, two policemen were killed and another was wounded during the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot”, based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Participants of the special military operation in Ukraine recorded video messages to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to assist in the search for Anna Tsomartova, an athlete from North Ossetia, who disappeared in Kaspiysk.

The armed underground is unlikely to be involved in two attacks on law enforcers committed in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), but there is a link with the terror act at the Crocus City Hall. This was stated by analysts and military experts.

The spectator of the stand-up concert who said he had been "hanging out with Chechen girls" has apologized to the entire Chechen people for the thoughtless joke.

Ulker Gashimova, a native of Makhachkala, accused of calls for terrorism and extremism allegedly contained in her posts on social networks, has complained that an investigator was putting pressure on her.

Attack on policemen in Karachaevsk, protests in Georgia, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, Inal Djabiev’s case, Circassian Flag Day, 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 April 22-28, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Twelve-year-old Ashura Kadyrova has completed training courses to join the Practical Shooting Federation, Ramzan Kadyrov boasts about his daughter’s success. The achievements and awards of Ramzan Kadyrov’s children are associated with the patronage of their father, social media users note.