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The recognizance not to leave the place prescribed to the Chechen law enforcers, who had kidnapped the blogger Areg Schepikhin, has clearly shown that the case will be closed or the kidnappers will formally sign contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD). This fits into the trend of impunity of Chechen law enforcers.

Within the last four months, the list of Azeri political prisoners has been replenished with more than 20 names of journalists, oppositionists, activists and believers.

Anton Chechin, a Russian citizen, was beaten up by employees of the Tbilisi prison after he asked to be transferred to a non-smoking cell. The beaten Chechin was placed into a dungeon (punishment cell) for several hours and only then received some medical care.

An appeal not to demand the reinstatement of Schema-Abbot Gavriil as the rector of the Sochi metochion in the Valaam Monastery has been posted in a Telegram channel where the priest’s sermons are collected. The “Sorok Sorokov” (Forty Forties) Orthodox movement continues its campaign demanding that Apti Alaudinov be punished for his words about the Orthodox priest.

In Rostov-on-Don, a military court sentenced Larisa Gavrilenko to sixteen years of imprisonment, finding her guilty of attempting to blow up a truck transporting military personnel.

In Tbilisi, unidentified persons attacked participants of the “March of Unity” who were distributing newspapers with letters from political prisoners. Supporters of the Georgia’s European integration blocked Rustaveli Avenue on the 195th day of the protests.

A man who was planning to commit a terror act in the administrative building at one of the energy facilities has been detained in the Krasnodar Territory.

An employee of a contractor intended to transfer the plans of the Sukhumi Airport and closed parking lot to the Ukrainian side; he was detained.

1.4 billion roubles, in addition to earlier allocated 8.5 billion roubles, will be provided to the “Rosmorrechflot” (Russian Federal Agency for Sea and Inland Water Transport) for monitoring the pollution of the sea with oil products, inspection and sealing up of sunken tanker parts.

The jury acquitted Kuban resident Yevgeny Skidanov, who claimed being tortured after his detention in 2019 in a murder case. Yevgeny Skidanov was released after spending five and a half years in prison.

Vladimir Medinsky, the aide to the President of the Russian Federation, has called Nagorno-Karabakh a disputed region between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The official Baku accused Vladimir Medinsky of distorting the facts.

It was “senior comrades” and not the demands of Orthodox activists who convinced Apti Alaudinov, the commander of the “Akhmat” special forces, to apologize to Schema-Abbot Gavriil. However, in the context of the practice of public apologies designed by the Chechen authorities, the case became unique of its kind.

In her video appeal to Sergey Melikov, the head of Dagestan, Patimat Guseinova has asked to revoke the permit for the construction of a hotel complex in the territory of the city beach in Kaspiysk.

The Leninsky District Court of Stavropol has placed the man accused of killing Zaur Gurtsiev, First Deputy Mayor of Stavropol, and his acquaintance into custody.

The Chechen law enforcers accused within the criminal case of kidnapping the blogger, Areg Schepikhin, have escaped placement into custody.

Activists from the Council for the Protection of the Nagorno-Karabakh People’s Rights succeeded in convincing the Armenian government of the need to accept a number of proposals to provide internally displaced persons (IDPs) with housing. However, the most important proposals have been rejected.

On the 193rd day of protests, participants in the pro-European action again blocked traffic in front of the Georgian parliament building. Relatives of those arrested for participating in the protest actions took part in a rally in Zugdidi, where they distributed a newspaper with letters from political prisoners.

Orthodox activists have voiced a request to reinstate Schema-Abbot Gavriil, who was dismissed after his statements about Muslims, in the Valaam Monastery and to give a legal assessment to the Apti Alaudinov’s words about the Orthodox priest.

Apti Alaudinov, Commander of "Akhmat" Special Forces, has apologized to Schema-Abbot Gavriil "purely because of his age." At the same time, he expressed outrage that the people who demanded an apology to the priest failed to react to Gavriil's statements about Muslims.

Law enforcers' raids aimed to identify illegal migration in the Ilovlinsky District were inefficient and offensive; only five people out of hundreds of checked members of the Roma community received summonses to the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office). The raids became a way to replenish the ranks of special military operation (SMO) fighters at the expense of naturalized migrants.