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General Sergey Surovikin, who commanded the 42nd Guards Motorized Rifle Division during the Second Chechen Military Campaign, has been appointed to command the Joint Group of Forces in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine.

The "International Memorial"* intends to challenge the court ruling that has invalidated the deal on the transfer of the building in Moscow of the liquidated organization to the "Memorial" Scientific Research and Educational Centre (SR&EC).

Law enforcers have treated the comments of Ruslan Totrov, a journalist from the North-Ossetian "Osnova" outlet, about the partial mobilization as discrediting Russian militaries. He disagrees with the police's claims.

A court in Moscow has invalidated the deal of transferring the building of the liquidated "International Memorial"* located in Karetny Ryad Street to the Research and Educational Centre (R&EC) and rejected the defence's requests to send the claim to arbitration or postpone its consideration.

Magomed Evloev apologized for the threats to the heads of the municipalities due to the failure of the mobilization plan.

In Kuban, draft notices on behalf of the head of a rural settlement were “of preliminary nature”, being sent in order to save those liable for the military service from punishment for failing to appear at military registration and enlistment office for mobilization, the Kuban administration explained.

The Japanese government, which had earlier decided to freeze the assets of the head of Chechnya, has now extended sanctions to his wife and three daughters, as well as two women named on the list as Ramzan Kadyrov's wives.

For 16 years the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, the customers of the crime have not been named, human rights defenders have stated on the anniversary of her murder.

The Russian human rights organization has won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Nobel Committee has informed.

On October 7, a court in Moscow will consider the claim lodged by the Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) demanding to invalidate the deal on the transfer of the premises in Karetny Ryad Street from the "International Memorial"* to another organization and turn the property into the income of the state.

A court in Krasnodar has found Vitaly Votanovsky, the author of the Telegram channel "Titushki of Krasnodar", guilty of participating in an undesirable organization for his reposts in a social network and fined him.

Gamid Dataev, a native of Dagestan, as well as the Muslims Artyom Vatrya and Bekhruz Ganiev, were unreasonably accused of creating a terrorist community and participating therein in the Khanty-Mansiysk Okrug, and of a number of other crimes.

In Makhachkala, a court has agreed with the arguments of the defence about violations in a case against former policeman Ibragim Gadjiev and returned the case to the Prosecutor’s Office.

Policemen forced relatives of the women participating in a protest action in Grozny to beat them, after which men from their families were forcibly mobilized, human rights defender Oleg Orlov and Oyub Titiev confirmed.

The mother of Nikolai Glazkov, who was drafted in the Gorodischensky District, has appealed to the prosecutor's office with a demand to cancel her son's mobilization. Nikolai, 43, suffers from serious illnesses, she has pointed out.

The villager from North Ossetia who has injured her child for disobedience should be deprived of parental rights and freedom, social media users believe. Some of them questioned the mother's mental health.

In Makhachkala, a headquarters has been set up to support the families of those mobilized, which will take upon itself the solution of their problems, Mayor, Salman Dadaev, has announced.

Vladimir Sevrinovsky, a journalist, arrested for five days in Makhachkala, is back at large. According to his story, he was detained with the use of force; policemen ignored the fact that he was performing his journalistic assignment.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded the leader of Chechnya the rank of Colonel General. This has been reported by Ramzan Kadyrov himself on his Telegram channel. At the same time, the leader of Chechnya promised to justify “the trust given in advance.”

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) awarded compensation of 122,000 euros to a sister of Salman and Zhuneid Gardanov, who were killed in 2012 during a special operation in Ingushetia, although Russia has adopted a law on non-execution of ECtHR decisions made after March 15, 2022.