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The investigator has unreasonably refused to provide advocates with the materials of the death case of a four-year-old girl from the city of Malgobek, the advocates assert and ask the court to cancel this refusal.

The condition of Ali Bataev, a native of Chechnya, became critical amid a 51-day hunger strike in a deportation centre in Switzerland, the “European House of Peace” organization claims.

Journalist Elena Milashina associates an attack she and advocate Alexander Nemov suffered in Grozny with a case of missing Chechen policeman Yasin Khalidov. The attackers were interested in the information that Yasin Khalidov had managed to pass on to human rights defenders before his detention, Elena Milashina believes.

Zagir Yakubov, a native of the Stavropol Territory, who was sentenced to 14 years in prison as a participant in the attack of Shamil Basaev's and Khattab's grouping on Dagestan in 1999, has committed suicide.

The medical commission has found Alexei Abramov, a resident of Krasnodar, mobilized with spinal hernias, as partially fit for military service. His wife has stated that he is being prepared for sending to the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine.

After complaints from the Chechens living in the village of Kemsi-Yurt and Mansur Soltaev's talks with local authorities, it was decided to build a kindergarten and a medical facility in the village, as well as to construct a road from Khasavyurt.

The illegal circulation of the weapons originating from the special military operation (SMO) zone is widespread among all fighters; sometimes entire units can be involved therein, analysts have pointed out in their comments on the case of the shooting of a "Wagner" fighter at law enforcers in the Rostov Region.

The reason for an accusation report against advocate Kaloi Akhilgov was his comments in the media, recognized as foreign agents. An author of the accusation report suggested that Kaloi Akhilgov and his colleagues refuse to speak in the media.

In Krasnodar, a court of cassation cancelled the verdict to Mikhail Selitsky, who was sentenced to compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital in a case on vandalism motivated by political hostility. The court sent the case for retrial. That was reported by the “OVD-Info”* human rights project with reference to advocate Rustam Mukhamadeev.

The court has treated the photo of a bag with an expression about the death of the country's president, posted by a 21-year-old woman from Krasnodar on the Internet, as discrediting Russian militaries and fined her by 30,000 roubles.

The complaint against the refusal to initiate a case of torturing Timur Debishev, an actor, has been once again returned by the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya to the Visaitovsky District Court of Grozny. However, the judge who had received the complaint has withdrawn himself by using a formal pretext, Ekaterina Vanslova, a human rights defender, has informed.

The President of Russia has decorated Aimani Kadyrova with the Order of Honour for her active social work, the head of Chechnya has informed.

Convicted Konstantin Fokin filed to court a claim against the Federal Penitentiary Service and demanded to pay him 500,000 roubles in compensation for moral damages for poor conditions in a Volgograd SIZO (pre-trial prison). The court refused to consider the claim, as the statute of limitations had been missed.

More than a hundred young people gathered at night on the border between Dagestan and Chechnya after a domestic conflict between two persons, and the situation required the intervention of the police, sources reported.

The Stavropol Territorial Military Court has sentenced a contract soldier to six years in colony, finding him guilty of leaving his military unit without permission.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has obliged the first-instance court in Grozny to correct the violations committed when considering the complaint of the widow of Salman Tepsurkaev about the refusal to recognize her as a suffered party; however, the latter didn't do it.

The Supreme Court (SC) of North Ossetia has softened the conditions and terms of arrest for former law enforcers Alan Khokhoev, Georgy Tsomaev, Shota Maisuradze and Soslan Sitokhov, accused within the case of the death of Vladimir Tskaev, a citizen of Vladikavkaz, which occurred after he was questioned at the police station.

When commenting on the news about the forgiveness of blood feud after a road traffic accident in the Sheikh-Mansurovsky District of Grozny, Ruslan Kutaev has pointed out that reconciliation of blood feud enemies after a fatal road traffic accident often occurs under pressure from the authorities, but enmity may continue in such cases.

More than five hundred people from thirty departments took part in a series of subbotniks (volunteer unpaid work on Saturdays) in the “English Castle,” the Mayor of Grozny reported. Social media users questioned the voluntary decision of city residents to take part in cleaning up the destroyed building.

Zarema Musaeva, convicted in the case of attacking a law enforcer, has stated that she hopes for the Russian Supreme Court (SC), from which she expects a positive decision on her complaint against the court verdict passed in Grozny, the "Novaya Gazeta" outlet has informed.