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The Supreme Court (SC) of North Ossetia sentenced Ibragim Mankiev, a resident of Ingushetia, to 14 years of imprisonment, finding him guilty of acts of banditry, murders, and illegal possession of weapons.

The court has decided that reposting in social network of the video of the destruction and explosions caused by missile strikes is discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

Over the past 20 years, the former hostages and relatives of those who perished in the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre still have no information about the course of the inquiry and results thereof; therefore, there is no hope for the completeness and objectivity of the inquiry, participants in the commemorative event in Moscow have stated.

Both pro-governmental non-commercial organizations (NCOs) and the oppositional ones have opposed the amendments to the Constitution of Dagestan, journalists have pointed out. In their opinion, the protest against the amendments has united diverse forces in the republic.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced Isa Ersimikov to six years of imprisonment for an attempt to provide a mobile phone to members of an illegal armed formation.

Two villagers, mobilized in Kuban (the Krasnodar Territory) and sent to a military unit in the Stavropol Territory, have refused to take part in the special military operation (SMO) because of their religious beliefs; and investigators are looking for a criminal offense in this refusal, Pavel Chikov, a human rights defender, has informed.

Relatives of those mobilized have to buy equipment and medicines for the conscripts, Telegram users have complained in their comments to the report of the Governor of the Stavropol Territory on re-equipping the fighters of one of the battalions.

Muslims are "needed by the state and the president" and should not look for excuses from participating in hostilities, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated. He has announced a jihad against the "Satanist democracy", promising "not to defend, but only to attack."

The videos about the participation of Ramzan Kadyrov's children in hostilities in Ukraine is intended to touch upon primitive ideas about justice and masculinity, since Kadyrov's model of power, like the Stalin's one, rests on an attempt to rally people around some idea, Dmitry Oreshkin has pointed out.

There are no violations of the service discipline in actions of the law enforcers, who hit the immobilized anti-mobilization protester in Makhachkala. It follows from the answer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to Arsen Magomedov, a lawyer.

In Pyatigorsk, a court has upheld the verdict to Ismail Isaev and Salekh Magamadov brothers, convicted in Chechnya for aiding and abetting a militant.

Mobilized residents of Astrakhan, who now stay in North Ossetia, have asked Igor Babushkin, Governor of the Astrakhan Region, to provide them with sleeping bags. The head of the region promised to provide the mobilized people with sleeping bags “in the near future.”

The administration of the colony located in the Stavropol Territory would not appoint a medical examination to Zevri Abseitov, convicted for taking part in the "Hizb ut-Tahrir"*, despite the his suffering from hypertension, as well as pain in kidneys and joints, his wife, Fatma Abseitova, has stated.

Residents of Chechnya should "stand in lines" and sign up en masse as volunteers to participate in the special operation in Ukraine, Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the republic, has stated.

The video showing Ramzan Kadyrov's sons fighting was compiled from several videos, Akhmed Dudaev, the Chechen Press Minister, has stated, calling it "the usual editors' work."

More than a hundred people gathered in Makhachkala after activists and independent media professionals were not allowed to discuss the amendments to the Constitution of Dagestan. Without a public discussion, a draft amendment unacceptable to the society can be adopted, activists have pointed out.

Today, in Makhachkala, journalists Magomed Magomedov and Magdi Kamalov have held two solo pickets. The protestors demand to stop the persecution of Abdulmumin Gadjiev.

Public apologies from young people for a man dancing in a pink dress at the entrance to Grozny were expected, Instagram* users noted.

Investigators have refused to arrest the law enforcers suspected of beating up a 14-year-old Volgograd schoolboy; and gave no answer at all to the petition demanding to remove them from service, Alyona Maksaeva, an advocate, has stated.

Another group of volunteers has left Chechnya for Donbass, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated. In the video posted by him, some of the fighters introduced themselves as residents of Astrakhan, Sochi and Stavropol Territory.