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The poem by Marina Melikhova, a Kuban activist, which had drawn law enforcers' attention, has nothing discrediting the Russian Army, said Maria Spasibukhova, an advocate. In her opinion, a conviction under the discrediting article will not affect the new administrative article.

The cases of nine residents of Nalchik, whom investigators accused of disrespecting the Russian anthem during a solemn event at school, have been sent to courts.

Law enforcers have detained at least two people who blocked the road near a residential complex in Krasnodar because of water and electricity outages.

The Volzhsky City Court has sentenced Ainura Amanbaeva, a local resident, who had poured brilliant green into a ballot box during the Russian presidential election, to 1.5 years of conditional imprisonment.

The Ministry of Construction, Housing and Communal Services and Energy of Chechnya has called on residents of the republic to limit electricity consumption in hot weather to avoid network overloads and blackouts.

Javier Yarmagomedov, a native of Dagestan, who had trampled a cross on live TV broadcast, has been arrested in Moscow on charges of insulting believers' feelings and trafficking in child pornography.

Law enforcers have searched the residence of the parents of Kase Kik, the leader of the Circassian Congress, who is living abroad. He has treated the unsanctioned search as a pressure attempt.

In Makhachkala, a court refused to question 20 out of 35 witnesses in a case on an extremist organization, and pressure is being put on the court, Larisa Bochieva claimed. A case against Larisa Bochieva has been falsified, however, to achieve a fair verdict, several years of proceedings may be required, an advocate believes.

Law enforcers planted evidence during a search in the apartment of builder Zaur Magomedov, accused of involvement in the militants’ attacks in Derbent and Makhachkala. The above was claimed by relatives of the accused man.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) obliged Russia to pay 10,000 euros to each of the four Dagestani Jehovah’s Witnesses*, sentenced to suspended imprisonment, considering their persecution a violation of the right to personal integrity and freedom of religion.

Javier Yarmagomedov, a blogger and streamer, detained within the case of insulting believers' feelings by mocking the Christian cross-live on air, has been charged with child pornography circulation.

Three men have beaten up an animal rights activist when he tried to check the living conditions of dogs at a shelter that is supposed to provide humane care for stray animals. One of the attackers wrote a denunciation against the activist, accusing him of discrediting the military.

Eight months later, investigators in Moscow have opened a criminal case into the beating of Tamerlan Marzoev, a North-Ossetian native, by law enforcers.

Murad Magomedov, a journalist from Dagestan, voiced a public apology to residents of Ingushetia for a video released on a TV channel, which reported that a young woman from the village of Plievo, using elements of disguise, allegedly got married several times.

The police considered a video with a verse by Kuban activist Marina Melikhova posted on YouTube as discrediting the Russian Armed Forces. Marina Melikhova noted that she did not post the video, since at that time she was serving her sentence in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) and that she learned about the mentioned video from the police.

The head of the Primorsko-Akhtarsky division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has apologized to Andrei Popov, a local resident, for beating him by a law enforcer, human rights defenders have reported.

After leaving Moscow for Chechnya, Timur Idalov, a Chechen advocate, accused within the case of threats to the prosecutor and put on the wanted list, is unlikely to hide from investigators in Chechnya, like those involved in the Nemtsov murder case, lawyers and human rights defenders have suggested.

The Volzhsky City Court repeatedly considered a case against Alexander Yefimov, a member of the federal bureau of the “Yabloko” Party, who was found guilty of giving an interview to the “Golos” (Vote)* movement. Alexander Yefimov was again found guilty and fined 15,000 roubles. Alexander Yefimov called the court’s decision a precedent and announced his intention to lodge an appeal against it.

Kevin Lik, an 18-year-old teenager from Adygea, convicted of high treason, claims that after he has complained about being deprived of contacts with the outside world, he began receiving threats of physical violence in the penal colony.

A resident of the Pavlovsky District studied banned extremist books and tried to recruit new members into the ranks of Jehovah’s Witnesses*, investigators suggest.