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Marina Zakharova, 68, Nikolai Nabiev, 66, and Sergey Kuzovenko, 64, from Kuban (the Krasnodar Territory) have civilian professions; and the investigators' version that they had tried to organize an illegal armed formation (IAF) looks absurd.

Regular drone attacks are frightening, but residents of Tuapse have no information about the locations of bomb shelters in residential areas, townspeople have complained.

The Tsentralny District Court of Volgograd has refused to consider the lawsuit for protection of honour and dignity, defence of privacy and claiming compensation for the suffered moral harm lodged against the "Volgograd-1" TV Company, under whose brand the story appeared on air about the people laying flowers in memory of Alexei Navalny.

The beating of a woman by her husband in a shop in the locality of Oiskhara requires an investigation, human rights defenders claim. Telegram users condemned the behaviour of the Chechen resident.

Aishat Magomedova, who was kidnapped by her relatives in Moscow on July 31, is alive and is staying with the relatives in Kizilyurt. At a police station, a friend of Aishat Magomedova watched a video in which Aishat Magomedova, with bruises on her face, asked “not to make a fuss,” human rights defenders reported.

Artemy Lebedev's obscene statement about the activities of the organizations helping victims of the terror act in Beslan has caused outrage in the republic. Public organizations called for the designer to be stripped of his state awards and demanded an apology. The "Beslan Mothers" have announced a lawsuit.

The arrest of Nadezhda Kevorkova, a journalist, accused of justifying terrorism, has been extended by two months.

Relatives forcibly took Aishat Magomedova, a resident of Kizilyurt, who had fled from domestic violence, from her Moscow apartment. Human rights defenders believe that the young woman is in danger.

Human rights defender Oleg Orlov*, sentenced to 2.5 years of imprisonment in a case on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces, 19-year-old Kevin Lik, convicted of high treason, and politician Andrei Pivovarov, who was sentenced to imprisonment for participating in the activities of an undesirable organization, have been released as part of a prisoner exchange with Western countries.

Two women from the Zelenchuksky District are suspected of participating in an extremist organization: they were organizing meetings and services of Jehovah’s Witnesses*, investigators stated.

Sergey Ryabchikov, a historian from Krasnodar, has been fined by 30,000 roubles for a post in which he called himself a pacifist.

Fighters from Chechen units opened fire in a square of the town of Valuiki in the Belgorod Region and filmed it on video. Local residents, commenting on the video clip posted in social networks, have pointed to the unacceptable behaviour of Akhmat battalion fighters and demanded from authorities to hold them accountable.

A Moscow court has extended the custody of Leniye Umerova, a Tatar woman from Crimean, accused of espionage.

The militants’ attacks in Dagestan, like the terror act at Crocus City Hall, occurred because of the failure of the authorities, which did not pay sufficient attention to countering terrorism. The above was stated by Russian General Prosecutor Igor Krasnov.

When commenting on the recommendation of an official from a mosque in Nalchik to remove niqabs in educational institutions, activists and religious figures have noted that in recent years, there have been more people wearing religious clothing in Kabardino-Balkaria.

Emran Usmanov, a military serviceman, mobilized from the Prokhladnensky District, sentenced to two years in colony for evading his service, has refused to plead guilty and appealed against the sentence.

The criminal case against Vladimir Yarotsky under the article on Nazism rehabilitation is politically motivated; and the article under which he is being prosecuted mismatches the Russian Constitution and international legal norms, the human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial" has stated, demanding that Yarotsky be released.

Those who oppose wearing hijabs are enemies of Islam, the head of Chechnya has declared, promising to shoot anyone who tells his daughter to take off her hijab dead.

In Novorossiysk, a court sentenced contract soldier Alexei Parakhin to five years and three months of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony, finding him guilty of absence without official leave (AWOL) during mobilization.

The court of appeal upheld the decision to deport Ukrainian citizen Alexander Gongadze Volny Ross from Russia. The man attracted the attention of the law enforcement bodies after the announcement of a rally for accessibility of Kamyshin roads for people with disabilities.