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One of Sochi district courts has obliged Anna Kolmagortseva, a local blogger, to remove the post, which became the reason for the lawsuit lodged by Victor Teplyakov, a deputy of the territorial legislature, and publish a refutation.

Valery Badmaev, the editor-in-chief of the "Sovremennaya Kalmykia" outlet, has become a suspect within a criminal case of discrediting Russian militaries; the court forbade him to use the Internet, telephone and mail.

A group of volunteers trained at the Russian Special Forces University has departed from Grozny Airport to the special military operation (SMO) zone, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated.

Valeria and Alexander Dudnikov from Sochi left Russia after the announcement of the partial mobilization. Valeria's pacifist posts in social networks have attracted law enforcers' attention, who visited the Dudnikovs' parents and at their place of registration.

Irina Grigorieva, a Krasnodar activist, has recorded a video appeal from the psychiatric hospital, where she was forcibly taken for examination.

The "Caucasian Knot" has joined the statement regarding the revocation of the Latvian license from the "Dozhd" (Rain) TV Channel and expressed its support for the TV Channel.

Tumso Abdurakhmanov is alive and will testify in court in Munich, a Swedish radio station reports with reference to a court representative.

In Rostov-on-Don, the case against Alexander Lyakh, the former deputy chief of the tuberculosis hospital of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN), accused of organizing the torture of prisoners, has been brought to court.

The defence intends to appeal against the verdict to a Rostov citizen, whom the court sentenced to restriction of freedom and compulsory psychiatric treatment because of the graffiti about President Vladimir Putin he made in Rostov-on-Don.

The criminal case on the theft of gold jewellery was initiated against Leyla Gireeva, who had run away from home at the application of her mother, who was seeking her daughter's return to Nazran. This application was not supported by facts, the girl's defence has pointed out and demanded to cancel the resolution on opening the case.

Ruslan Narushev, a resident of Volgograd, has been fined by 85,000 roubles for placing two banners, the inscriptions on which the court treated as discrediting Russian militaries. The man refused to plead guilty.

Contract soldier Magomed Elemkhanov, who lost in Grozny a trial in the case on his dismissal for refusing to go to the special military operation zone, had the right by the law not to participate in battles outside of Russia, but after the annexation of new territories to Russia, a soldier who refuses to go there can face criminal prosecution, a lawyer and human rights defenders note.

The possible murder of Tumso Abdurakhmanov could be organized by Akhmed Zakaev, who was criticized by the blogger. This was announced by Chingiz Akhmadov, the director of the “Grozny” TV Channel, who ignored the fact that Tumso Abdurakhmanov was criticizing the Chechen authorities for years.

The construction of the temple near Lake Ak-Gyol has been actually launched, but no building permit had been issued, activists of the "City Is Ours" movement have stated. The Diocese has not yet applied for a building permit, the Makhachkala Mayoralty has confirmed.

The establishment by Tumso Abdurakhmanov of his party could not significantly increase the threat to his security, since he had long been declared as Kadyrov's enemy, moreover that the new political force had no time to manifest itself.

The activists' demands to rename the Nalchik streets named in honour of Soviet generals Zakharov and Kozlov are reasonable, Valery Khatazhukov and Zaur Shokuev, activists of the human rights centre of Kabardino-Balkaria, have pointed out.

A court in Pyatigorsk has overturned the verdict to Elena Menchikova, a resident of the city of Cherkessk, who was sentenced to five years of conditional imprisonment on charges of participation in an extremist organization, and sent the case for a new trial at the first-instance court.

In Grozny, the garrison military court refused to reinstate contract soldier Magomed Elemkhanov, who was dismissed after he failed to comply with the order to leave “for a trip to perform service and combat missions.”

The religious factor has become a distinctive feature of mobilization in Northern Caucasus. In fact, the participation of religious figures in recruiting and the practice of putting pressure on relatives excluded the option of alternative service for residents of Chechnya, while in Ingushetia, it is possible against the background of a different position of religious leaders on the special military operation, the lawyer says.

When commenting on the silence of Tumso Abdurakhmanov’s relatives after the version of his murder had appeared, human rights defenders Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya and Caucasian expert Ruslan Kutaev have pointed out that according to the local traditions, no mourning events for a deceased person are held in Chechnya if the body of the deceased is not delivered home.