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Vasily Meleshko, a Jehovah's Witness* from the village of Kholmskaya (the Krasnodar Territory, also known as Kuban by the name of the main river) is prohibited from leaving the Abinsky District for three years without policemen's permit; he cannot stay outside the home at night, and must visit the local division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) four times a month.

Three residents of Kaspiysk were preparing a series of terror acts in Dagestan, including against law enforcement buildings and an Orthodox temple. The suspects have been detained.

In Ingushetia, investigators refused to institute a criminal case on an attack on Alyona Sadovskaya, a journalist of the “Caucasian Knot”, in October 2023.

Beaten animal rights activist Denis Djalaganiya was summoned to the Tikhoretsk police “for re-questioning” in the case on the attack. Based on a denouncing report against Denis Djalaganiya, the police summoned his colleague for questioning and checked the correspondence on her mobile phone, looking for “discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.”

The Muslim clergy of the Astrakhan Region has recommended that local women refrain from wearing niqabs in public places.

The "Memorial" Centre for Human Rights Defence (CHRD)* has challenged its inclusion into the register of foreign agents, but the Moscow Zamoskvoretsky District Court has refused to overturn it.

The deadline for filing an appeal in the criminal case against Nikita Zhuravel expired, and he did not lodge an appeal against the verdict.

The decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the complaint of Barakh Chemurziev proves that innocent activists were convicted within the "Ingush case"; therefore, the ECtHR will make similar decisions on the statements of the other defendants, Chemurziev's advocates believe.

The court’s decision containing the refusal to demolish a temple in Slavyansk-on-Kuban has entered into force. The deadline for appeal by the authorities, who had earlier demanded that the temple be demolished, has passed.

A military court sentenced a resident of Krasnodar to eleven years of imprisonment for attempting to join a Ukrainian armed formation.

A resident of Stavropol, who had posted a photo from World War II with a V symbol in a social network, received a suspended sentence with two years of the trial period on charges of repeatedly demonstrating Nazi symbols.

Alexander Gongadze Volny Ross, a Ukrainian citizen, who has served his sentence for organizing a wheelchair run in the town of Kamyshin, will be deported from Russia. He and his wife were fined for violating migration laws; and their deportation is expected next week despite the possibility of persecution in their homeland due to their pro-Russian position.

The Morozovsk District Court has placed Ivan Svistov in custody for six months, accusing him of hooliganism after attempting to set fire to the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office).

Four persons accused within the case of riots at the airport that broke out in October 2023 have been released from the Makhachkala SIZO (pre-trial prison).

Vakhid Ilyasov's apologies for the incident on a Mariupol beach were caused by the pressure of Chechen authorities, while those from Ramzan Kadyrov's retinue rarely apologize for much more serious offences, analysts have pointed out, noting that not all incidents involving natives of Chechnya committed at resorts attract attention of republic's authorities.

In her video message, Tatiana Bakalchuk, a founder of the “Wildberries” marketplace, refuted the words of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov about the raider takeover and obstacles in communicating with her husband and children.

Magomed Omaraskhabov, accused in a case on pogrom, came to the airport in Makhachkala for family reasons, while another defendant Anvarbek Ataev came there out of curiosity, advocates stated.

The leader of Chechnya promised Vladislav Bakalchuk, a husband of the richest woman in Russia, that he would not let the Bakalchuk family be destroyed and would “go to the end” to stop the raider takeover of the “Wildberries” Company. Ramzan Kadyrov announced that he had given instructions on the case to Russian State Duma member Adam Delimkhanov.

Akhmed Dudaev, the Minister for Press of Chechnya, has stood up for blogger Askhab Tamaev after Ekaterina Mizulina, the head of the "Safe Internet League", accused him of fraud. The intercession of republic's authorities for the person who resorts to threats and frauds looks dubious, social network users have pointed out.

Malik Gandaloev, a native of Ingushetia, whom investigators treat as one of hostage-takers at the Rostov SIZO (pre-trial prison), has been sentenced to 20 years of freedom deprivation on charges of involvement in the "Islamic State" (IS)* and manufacturing explosives.