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At least 20 Mercedes and GMC cars have been gifted to commanders of law enforcement units participating in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine by the head of Chechnya.

Zhalaudi Geriev, a journalist from Chechnya, has noted that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) had found only one obvious violation in his case. If the ECtHR had considered the case before Russia in 2022 refused to enforce its decisions, the judges might have considered the materials in more detail, he has added.

Alexander Savin, an advocate from the "Team Against Torture" (TaT)* has asked the Court of Cassation in Pyatigorsk to overturn the sentence passed on Zarema Musaeva in Chechnya due to the unjustified charges and violations of the laws.

In their video appeal, Imams of Dagestani mosques and members of rural communities have called on the authorities not to punish the rioters detained at Makhachkala Airport.

Makhachkala city authorities have called on residents not to succumb to provocations and refrain from taking part in unsanctioned actions; they also report about their preventive work with students and schoolchildren.

After an inspection, the prosecutor’s office found justified the school administration’s refusal to allow schoolgirls wearing hijabs attending lessons in the village of Zalukokoazhe. This was reported by the schoolgirls’ mother. The woman requested the Prosecutor of Kabardino-Balkaria to lift the ban on wearing hijabs at school.

A video of the burning of the Koran in Volgograd was posted on the “Utro Dagestan” (Morning Dagestan) Telegram channel, which is associated with the recent riots at an airport in Makhachkala, states a witness in a case against Nikita Zhuravel.

The US Treasury has included Ramzan Kadyrov's son-in-law, Deputy Speaker of the Chechen Parliament Salman Zakriev and his son Yakub, who heads the "Danone Russia" Company, into the sanctions list.

After the court ruling in the case of an attempt on his life with the knowledge of Ramzan Kadyrov, the German Ministry for Migration and Refugees has granted asylum and refugee status to Mukhammad Abdurakhmanov. He has sought this status for more than six years.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found the treatment of Zhalaudi Geriev during the trial at the Shali District Court to be degrading and awarded him compensation of EUR 7500, his advocate Nadezhda Ermolaeva has informed.

Olesya Shevchenko, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, who requested the republic’s Ministry for Public Health to provide her with medications in accordance with the law, withdrew her claim.

On the 80th anniversary of Karachays' deportation, religious ceremonies were held in the central mosque of Karachaevsk in memory of the victims of the tragic events of 1943.

There was no mass cancellation of tours to Dagestan amid the unrest in Makhachkala, but some tourists refused to travel to the republic, representatives of travel agencies report. They have pointed out that because of the unrest, Dagestan risks losing its attractiveness for guests from other regions.

The “Kamerton” detachment, created as part of the Akhmat special forces by former fighters of the Wagner PMC, is undergoing combat training, as follows from public videos.

The Karabudakhkent District Court received 37 protocols against participants of the riots at the Makhachkala airport under the article on violating the procedure for holding protests; in 14 cases decisions on punishment have already been made.

The National Centre of the Kyrgyz Republic for the Prevention of Torture received a complaint about torture in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) of Mansur Movlaev, a native of Chechnya.

Investigators considered legal the actions of border guard service officers at an airport in the city of Mineralnye Vody, who forced human rights defender Olga Begretova to submit fingerprints and biological material.

Those who gathered for the protest rally at the Makhachkala airport showed “great stupidity,” but the riots themselves were the result of insufficient educational work by the authorities with young people, Dagestani activists said.

The court in Grozny interrogated two witnesses in the case against Nikita Zhuravel, who faces imprisonment for burning the Koran. During the trial, he asked Muslims for forgiveness for his actions. The trial was then postponed for the third time due to the absence of the Grozny imams, recognized as victims in the case.

Neither the authorities nor the spiritual leaders of the North Caucasus condemned the riots at the Makhachkala airport and other anti-Semitic protests in the region, said Chief Rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar. He expressed fears for the fate of his co-religionists in the south of the country.