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Authorities of Chechnya have initiated the practice of public apologies; however, now law enforcers and ordinary residents in different Russian regions are resorting to this practice, analysts have commented on the video with an apology of a girl from Krasnodar and the author of a joke about Chechen women.

Attack on DPS checkpoint in Mara-Ayagy, protests in Georgia, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, march to Yerevan, 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 29-May 5, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Investigators have accused Nadezhda Kevorkova, a journalist, a defence witness in the case of the attack on Nalchik, of justifying terrorism. The reason was in her repost of the journalist Orkhan Djemal's text about this attack and her publication about the "Taliban"* movement.

Investigators in Dagestan are inefficient in investigating the disappearance of the athlete Anna Tsomartova, the girl's parents have stated in their appeals to the director of the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) and the senator from North Ossetia; they have asked to transfer the case to investigators in Moscow.

Alexander Nozdrinov, a journalist and blogger from Kuban (the Krasnodar Territory), convicted of spreading fakes about the Russian Army, was transferred to a colony in the town of Khadyzhensk. This was reported by the human rights project "OVD-Info"*.

The criminal prosecution of Leniye Umerova, a Crimean Tatar woman, detained at a checkpoint in North Ossetia and accused of espionage, contradicts the Geneva Convention for the Protection of Civilians, the human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial" has stated.

The Krasnodar Garrison Military Court has sentenced Artyom Sluzhilov, a military serviceman, who was found guilty of leaving his unit without permission during the mobilization period, to three years in penal colony.

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.