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The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a law recognizing the independence of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and recognized its territory as temporarily occupied by Russia. This decision was supported by 287 members of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

Three Ramzan Kadyrov's sons have starred in the propaganda video story by the "Grozny" TV Channel from Mariupol, and posed for the photos taken by the press service of the head of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), who presented their sister Aishat Kadyrova with an order.

The court sentenced Altan Ochirov, a former employee of the Mayoralty of Elista, the capital of Kalmykia, to three years of freedom deprivation after finding him guilty of spreading fakes about Russian militaries. Ochirov refused to plead guilty and intends to appeal against the verdict.

Without waiting for the appeal's outcome, court marshals have extradited Yuri Kostyuk, an activist, who had requested asylum in Russia, from Sochi to Belarus. This was reported by the Belarusian "Viasna" (Spring) human rights centre in its Telegram channel.

Relatives of those mobilized in the Krasnosulin District of the Rostov Region have complained that they had lost their husbands' and sons' support, and worry about their financial wellbeing.

In Makhachkala, solo pickets were held by journalists Magomed Magomedov and Idris Yusupov. The activist demanded to stop the criminal prosecution of Abdulmumin Gadjiev and release political prisoners.

The court has granted a claim filed by the Prosecutor’s Office and obliged a company engaged in monitoring a waste landfill in the village of Poltavskaya to install treatment facilities there and eliminate other violations against which local residents are protesting.

In the Austrian capital, members of the Chechen Diaspora held a picket in support of Amina Gerikhanova and called on the Romanian authorities not to deport her to Russia.

The derogatory words about Chechens were a manifestation of an erroneous opinion, a tourist who had visited Chechnya said in a video, asking to forgive him for his remarks. The man was forced to apologize, commentators have suggested.

Human rights defenders and activists in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have called it illegal to bring the citizens-protesters in Nalchik on September 25-26 to administrative responsibility, and demanded to stop persecuting them.

Rubati Mitsaeva, a former associate of Akhmed Zakaev, has stated that she and her daughter received threats when in Turkey on behalf of the blogger, Khasan Khalitov, and she resorted to retaliatory threats, demanding apologies.

Galimat Okhtova from Cherkessk has treated the inaction of court marshals as the reason that two years after the verdict was passed on Mariam Karaeva, who had stolen the maternity capital from her daughter, the money has not yet been returned.

Residents of the highland village of Kharakhi in Dagestan have raised money and almost completed the construction of an 11-kilometre-long water pipeline after officials stated that they had no budget for that.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has obliged Russian authorities to pay 45,000 euros to Georgy Sveshnikov, a resident of Sochi, as compensation within the case of torturing him by law enforcers.

The Telegram channel "With Visor Open", in which the video was posted that caused the initiation of a case on discrediting the Russian Army, was hacked, the blogger, Anna Kolmagortseva, has informed. According to her story, she had promptly deleted both the video and the channel.

After almost six weeks of outage, electricity and water supplies have been reconnected to No. 4 in Krivoshlykovsky Lane in Rostov-on-Don; the house was recognized as an emergency one. After the tenants' complaints, a criminal case of negligence was initiated.

The case of Eduard Safronov, a resident of the city of Volzhsky, accused of discrediting the Russian Army, has arrived in the court.

After Roman Taganov has served his term at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) located near Maykop, the capital of Adygea, his health became worse, and he needs medical treatment, said his wife. His advocate has confirmed his client's poor health.

The Pyatigorsk City Court pronounced a new punishment for Ingush policeman Magomed Dolgiev, sentencing him a shorter suspended imprisonment. At the same time, the judge added to the verdict the motive of political hostility towards the authorities of the republic, human rights defenders report today.

Since the beginning of the special military operation, the authorities have confirmed the information about at least 800 residents of Southern Russia perished in Ukraine, including 512 residents of the North-Caucasian Federal District and 288 residents of the South Federal District.