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The Supreme Court of Chechnya refused to grant the claim for payment of compensation for moral damage to relatives of policemen Aslanbek Kukaev and Roslanbek Damaev, who perished during the “mopping-up” operation in Grozny.

The case of Ivan Danilov, a Krasnodar resident, accused of discrediting the Russian Army, has arrived in the court.

Andrei Fokin has held his hunger strike for three days in protest against his arrest during the elections, where he acted as a confidant of the candidate for the Lermontov city council from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF).

Until the inquiry into the terror act committed at the Beslan school is completed, the building must be mothballed; this is the opinion of Emma Tagaeva from the "Voice of Beslan" and 380 victims who have signed the call not to create a museum at the venue of people's deaths.

The Cassation Court (CC) has found no violations in the case of Said-Mukhammad Djumaev, a native of Chechnya, who was sentenced to five years in prison for using violence against law enforcers at a rally in Moscow. The CC has upheld the verdict.

Ramzan Kadyrov, his wife Medni and three daughters, as well as Fatima Khazueva and Aminad Akhmadova, who were named Kadyrov's wives on the list, have been sanctioned by the US Treasury Department. The "Firdaus" Fashion House, headed by Aishat Kadyrova, is also included into the sanctions list.

The introduction of a fee for visiting a light and music show at a new fountain in Derbent is quite justified, but the Mayoralty has raised prices too much, tourists say. The show is visited by whole families; and it turns out very expensive, residents of Dagestan believe.

The Supreme Court of Russia considered a claim filed by the “Roskomnadzor” (the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media) and decided to stop the validity of the certificate of registration issued for the electronic media outlet of the “Novaya Gazeta” website.

In Sochi, the police detained five participants of a spontaneous protest action to save dogs. Animal rights defender Viktoria Mylnikova, who tried to draw the attention of law enforcers to animal cruelty, has been charged with hooliganism.

The Supreme Court of Chechnya cancelled a court’s decision on a claim filed by the Russian Ministry of Finance, which challenged the award of compensation amounting to 400,000 roubles to Shamsold Akhyadov, a resident of Chechnya, for being wounded during the second Chechen military campaign.

Russian governors should declare self-mobilization in their regions to form detachments and send them to Ukraine, the leader of Chechnya says.

In Chechnya, the school teachers' average salaries are the lowest among Russian regions; in other regions of the North-Caucasian and the Southern Federal Districts (NCFD and SFD), it is also lower than the Russia's national average.

Fires at the waste dump in Malgobek occur, among other things, because the townspeople set fire to the garbage brought there, local residents have suggested.

The court sent for review the decision to transfer Shamil Nurmagomedov, a resident of Dagestan convicted of financing terrorism, from a colony to prison. The long stay in the cell has told negatively on his health, his advocate has stated.

The Russia's Ministry of Education has agreed to the candidacy of Akhmat Kadyrov, the 16-year-old son of the head of Chechnya, for the post of the regional chairman of the Russian movement of children and youth.

In Moscow, a court granted the demand of the Prosecutor’s Office to liquidate the “Journalists’ and Media Workers’ Trade Union”. The Prosecutor’s Office did not provide any grounds for the liquidation of the trade union, and the decision will be challenged, advocate Maxim Krupsky says.

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) called a provocation the publication of a letter to the Russian President on behalf of CPRF leader Gennady Zyuganov asking Vladimir Putin to prevent the appointment of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov as the Russian Minister of Defence.

A resident of Astrakhan was found guilty of public calls for terrorist activities and fined 360,000 roubles.

Chechnya is not standing out from other regions in terms of the number of fighters sent to Ukraine, Alexander Khramchikhin has stated. In his turn, Vasily Dandykin believes that Chechnya is the main supplier of fighters to Ukraine.

In the Volgograd Region, law enforcers have detained a local resident suspected of recruiting an Uzbek citizen into the ranks of the "Islamic State" (IS)*.