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Four people were killed and two more were detained during the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the Malgobek District, Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov, the head of Ingushetia, has announced.

Chechen experts, jointly with the FSB and the Moscow Mayoralty, are establishing the author of the video about the burning of the Koran near the White Lake, Ramzan Kadyrov has reported, emphasizing his personal participation in this check.

Tatiana Zakharova, an activist from Krasnodar, has complained that, due to the absence of a passport, which she has not had for almost two years, her rights are seriously limited, in particular, she cannot get registered at a hospital and fill out a report from the NGO she leads.

The prices for a number of imported foodstuffs are rising on the eve of Eid al-Fitr, despite the statements of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, who compared the entrepreneurs, who had inflated prices, with drug dealers, local residents have stated.

At the Pyatigorsk office of the Team against Torture (TaT)*, law enforcers have taken away a laptop and a USB flash drive. They explained the need for the search by a case initiated in North Ossetia.

The term of arrest of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Abubakar Rizvanov, and Kemal Tambiev, who have been in custody for about four years on the charges of financing terrorism, has been extended by other three months.

None of the officials examined the houses of residents of the Zyazikov-Yurt village, which were damaged during a shootout between law enforcers and suspected militants on April 5. The villagers were hiding in cellars of their houses during all night, an owner of one of the damaged houses said.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ordered the authorities of Russia to pay 4000 euros to Krasnodar activist Stanislav Chepachenko, who was detained in 2018, despite the Russia’s refusal to comply with the decisions pronounced by the ECtHR.

The Buynaksk City Court has imposed a fine on Magomed Saidbekov, a local resident, finding him guilty of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

The Nalchik City Court has obliged three convicted policemen to pay 150,000 and 300,000 roubles, to Alexander Knyazev and Valery Levdik, respectively, who claimed that they had been tortured. The victims disagree with the amount of compensations, Mr Knyazev has stated.

Human rights organizations have sent a report to the UN on the deteriorating of the human rights situation in Northern Caucasus and described cases of persecution of LGBT people in Chechnya and Dagestan.

The authorities are required by law to compensate for damages to a woman from the village of Zyazikov-Yurt, whose house was damaged during a counterterrorist operation, but to assess the damage, the woman needs to go to court, lawyers note.

Alan Khasiev, a blogger from North Ossetia, was fined for a video posted on the social media.

The court sentenced Nikolai Bogoslavsky, the Pastor of the Evangelical Church of Christ the Saviour in Anapa, to a year in colony under the article on cooperation with an undesirable organization.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found violations in considering the cases of nine residents of Ingushetia detained at the venue of a rally in Magas in 2019.

Rinat Kiramov, Sergey Korolyov, and Sergey Kosyanenko, the Jehovah's Witnesses*, whose case is being considered by the Akhtubinsky District Court, are under threat of long freedom deprivation terms under the charges of extremism. The prosecutor has demanded eight years in colony for each of them.

The police reported about the detention of a Moscow advocate in a case on a threat of violence to a public officer during a court session. Timur Idalov, representing the interests of the Belkharoev family in the case on the murder of Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the chief of the Ingush Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE, also known as Centre “E”), was detained, and a search was conducted in the Timur Idalov’s house.

The statement of Ramzan Kadyrov concerning connections of a detainee in Chechnya with Ingush militants is not enough to consider a person a member of the armed underground, human rights defender point out.

The special operation in the village of Gvardeiskoye was held two weeks after the armed incident in Gudermes, where two men were shot dead.

A court in North Ossetia has terminated the proceedings in the case of Regina Gagieva, who posted pacifist comments in a social network.