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A court in Paris has launched an investigation into the actions of the head of the French Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and two other officials involved in the deportation of Magomed Gadaev, a native of Chechnya, who was then sentenced to imprisonment in his homeland.

The Krasnodar Garrison Military Court has sentenced Sergey Lyakh to 3.5 years in prison and stripped him of his military rank for two cases of leaving his unit during the mobilization period.

The verdict in the case of three natives of Dagestan for beating a passenger in the Moscow metro was predetermined due to a media campaign against the defendants, their defence believes.

Mariana Katsarova, a Bulgarian human rights defender, who worked as a journalist in the war zone in Chechnya and also took part in monitoring human rights violations in Northern Caucasus, has been appointed the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Russia.

The law enforcers’ losses during an armed clash in the village of Zyazikov-Yurt, including three killed and eight wounded persons, became the largest number of casualties within a day among the law enforcers in Ingushetia after August 2012, the “Caucasian Knot” calculated.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya again cancelled the decision of the instance court, which refused to consider common-law wife of Salman Tepsurkaev as a victim in the case on his kidnapping.

Explosive devices and ammunition have been found in the houses of three residents of the Malgobek District, relatives of the alleged militant. All of them have been detained, the power structures of Ingushetia have informed.

Three policemen have perished and eight wounded during the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the Malgobek District of Ingushetia, a law enforcement source has informed.

Vitaly Votanovsky, a blogger and an activist from Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), said that he had left Russia. Earlier, he received threats after filming the graves of the militaries, who perished in Ukraine, and posting them in his Telegram channel entitled "Titushki in Krasnodar".

The court of appeal has increased from 500,000 to 1,000,000 roubles the compensation awarded for moral harm suffered by Djuliet Kardanova, a farmer from the city of Nartan, who was acquitted within the fraud case when receiving subsidies. Kardanova has treated the court's decision as fair.

The court of cassation reduced from 100,000 to 30,000 roubles the fine imposed on Magdi Kamalov, a founder of the Dagestani weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft), under the article on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

The second of six residents of Ingushetia, whom the law enforcement bodies consider involved in an attack on a road-and-patrol police service (known as DPS) checkpoint, has been found dead today. Presumably, this is Movsar Kottoev, sources report.

A resident of Krasnodar has parked his car stylized as an American patrol police car near the administration building of the Krasnodar Territory. The court arrested him for seven days having treated his action as an unsanctioned rally.

Akhmad Kottoev has promised not to avenge the death of his son Movsar, who is wanted in Ingushetia as a militant.

A mentally unhealthy person can be used for illegal purposes, an expert has noted in his comment on the information that one of those killed by law enforcers in Gudermes had suffered from a mental illness.

The announcement of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in the Malgobek District of Ingushetia was preceded by two CTOs in the Sunzha and Malgobek Districts conducted in August 2020.

Law enforcers have found the alleged attackers on the DPS (road-and-patrol service) traffic police post in a farm in Malgobek; the suspects opened fire on law enforcers; they wounded one of them and managed to escape, a law enforcement source has informed.

Leader of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov responded with insults to President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky on the imposition of sanctions against his daughter Tabarik Kadyrova.

In Makhachkala, journalists Magomed Magomedov and Idris Yusupov held solo pickets in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, an arrested editor of the Dagestani weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft).

In North Ossetia, a court fined Ruslan Reshidov, a pensioner from Chechnya, to a fine of 30,000 roubles, recognizing his words about the special military operation in Ukraine as discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.