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Olga Slegina, a pensioner from Moscow, has stated that in Nalchik law enforcers had misinterpreted her words about Ukraine and Zelensky in order to accuse her of discrediting the Russian Army.

The court has found Ilyas Ziyaudinov, a resident of the Levashin District, guilty of discrediting the Russian Army and obliged him to pay a fine.

The growth of prices in Chechnya ahead of the Eid al-Fitr has led to a significant increase in people's expenses for the festive table and gifts, local residents have complained. They have felt that the prices of meat, vegetables and fruits had risen sharply.

Kazbek Kokov, the head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), has reported that over 400 million roubles were sent to pay to the militaries taking part in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine. Some republic's residents fail to achieve the promised payments, Instagram* users have stated.

Rustam Aguev, the head of the Kurchaloi ROVD (District Interior Division) in Chechnya, has threatened to take cars away from violators of traffic rules, explaining this by the intensified measures during the celebration of the Eid al-Fitr.

The Interpol has stopped searching for Dagestani preacher Israil Akhmednabiev (Abu Umar Sasitlinsky), treating the arguments of Russian law enforcers in his case as unconvincing. However, this decision will not affect the course of criminal cases initiated against his fund in Russia, human rights defenders have noted.

The Court of Cassation lifted the ban on the publication of the “Sahih al-Bukhari”* book amid the statements voiced by Ramzan Kadyrov, who is trying to position himself as the main defender of Muslims in Russia, religious experts Dmitry Mikulsky and Alexander Sotnikov point out.

Rustam Buluev, Ruslan Namatov, and Arthur Ushaev, former employees of the antiterrorist centre of Chechnya, were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment on the charges of committing a terror act in the village of Znamenskoye in 2005.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized violations of the rights of six Krasnodar residents who were detained at rallies in Krasnodar in 2017 and 2018.

Law enforcers have drawn up a protocol on discrediting the Russian Army against a resident of Rostov-on-Don for his post in a social network.

Users of the "VKontakte" social network have sharply criticized officials after the complaint from a resident of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), who had asked local authorities for firewood, but received tickets to the circus instead.

In Moscow, a court fined 70-year-old Olga Slegina under the article about discrediting the Russian Armed Forces because of her conversation about the President of Ukraine during a vacation in Kabardino-Balkaria.

Investigators four times refused to institute a criminal case on the kidnapping by Chechen law enforcers of Ibragim Selimkhanov, a native of Dagestan, and the prosecutor’s office once again recognized the above decision on refusal as illegal, the “SK SOS Crisis Group” reported.

The Dagestani Supreme Court (SC) has refused to reduce the prison term of five year appointed to Murad Dadashev, a native of Dagestan, for his posts in the Internet. Dadashev himself has rejected his authorship of the posts.

Policemen have beaten up Konstantin Beltyukov, a resident of Sochi, after he asked them to produce their IDs in response to their demand to give them his documents for examination.

Irina Nikiforyak, the wife of the mobilized man has complained that authorities of the Urupsky District of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) brought her two tickets to the circus instead of firewood she has asked for.

The mother of Adam Ozdoev, who was put on the wanted list in the case of an attack on law enforcers in Ingushetia, has again recorded a video appeal to her son urging him to surrender to authorities.

The Supreme Court of Chechnya has cancelled the decision of the court, which for the 13th time recognized as lawful the refusal to institute a criminal case on the torture of Timur Debishev, an actor from Chechnya. Human rights defenders called the above court’s decision rare for Chechnya and encouraging for them.

Ramzan Kadyrov’s statement about the need to return to the front line for Chechen fighters released from the Ukrainian captivity are aimed at preventing surrendering of fighters and fit into the Stalinist traditions, when captivity was considered a disgrace, human rights defenders point out.

The Chegem District Court has fined Khasansh Urusov, a local resident, for his post in a social network.