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A criminal case has been sent to court against two colony inmates kept in Zabaikalsky Krai (Territory), who are accused of justifying the terror act committed in Beslan; one of them is a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

A court in Azerbaijan has sentenced Igbal Abilov, a Talysh researcher, to 18 years of freedom deprivation for treason. The charges were based on subjective assumptions, his defence has stated intending to appeal against the verdict.

In response to criticism for running next to Adam Kadyrov’s car, former MP from Smolensk Maxim Baranov has explained that his goal was to highlight on social networking services the passing of standards for receiving maroon berets.

An advocate of prisoner Igor Nagavkin and human rights defenders have claimed that the conditions of his detention in the Uryupinsk penal colony-settlement are “torturous.” A court has accepted for consideration an administrative claim in which Igor Nagavkin is challenging seven penalties imposed on him.

Public prosecutors consider Khasin Kabardaev, a resident of the Adyge-Khablsky District, to be an organizer of an extremist cell, and five more local residents will appear in court as its members.

Nine persons, including eight teenagers, suspected of preparing attacks on policemen, have been taken into custody in the Stavropol Territory. Some of them have told how they had sworn an oath to a terrorist organization without understanding the meaning of the words.

A criminal case about a street brawl in Makhachkala, in which at least 50 people took part, is being investigated under the hooliganism article. According to sources, the mass brawl was preceded by a two teenagers’ conflict.

Investigators have brought final charges against Anar Mamedli, an Azerbaijani human rights defender, under five criminal articles. The case has been sent to court; his defence insists on Mamedli’s innocence.

The court banned the activities of the “International Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists Church Kurganinsk” religious association for its illegal missionary activities.

Ingush Ombudsperson Zarema Chakhkieva reported that a resident of Saint Petersburg contacted her. The woman is looking for her children taken by her former husband to Ingushetia.

Court marshals must preserve confiscated property, but only works of art included into the Museum Fund are subject to special protection. In the case of the seizure and destruction of sculptures from the Yelansky Cossack Museum, their fate can be determined by the court.

Ukrainian citizen Andrei Kolomiets has been released after ten years of imprisonment. At present, he stays in a deportation centre in Kuban. The man converted to Islam, as only Muslims supported him during his imprisonment.

Applicants for Russian citizenship from Abkhazia and South Ossetia will not need to comply with the requirements for permanent residence in the Russian Federation and knowledge of the Russian language and Russian history.

After receiving a request for the extradition of Mansur Movlaev, the authorities of Kazakhstan should conduct an investigation, and in the case of a request for asylum, give a response. If Mansur Movlaev is extradited from Kazakhstan to Russia, then, in accordance with the law, he will be delivered to Chechnya, which is of interest to the authorities of the republic.

There were numerous violations in the case of Vadim Kharchenko*, a convicted blogger from the city of Gelendjik, his parents have claimed in their appeal to President Putin; and a complaint was also filed against the verdict. Three more criminal cases have been opened against Kharchenko*.

The nomination of candidates for the presidency of Nagorno-Karabakh from parliamentary factions will begin after May 21.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has refused to satisfy the complaint lodged by Zarema Musaeva's defence and release her from the SIZO (pre-trial prison) for the investigation period.

The defendants in the Abzas Media case have petitioned for the interrogation of the law enforcers and witnesses who were present during searches and detentions, but the court has rejected their requests and declared the end of the judicial investigation.

In Northern Caucasus, law enforcers use the article on non-reporting about an intended crime to intimidate relatives and acquaintances of suspected militants, although the legal application thereof is possible only under certain conditions, while one’s close relatives are protected by the constitutional right not to report a crime.

The Akhmatovsky District Court of Grozny court has fined Tumso Abdurakhmanov*, an oppositional blogger who lives abroad, within an administrative case of violating the rules set forth for the activities of a foreign agent.