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Within the case of 13 deaths in October 2020 of COVID-19 patients due to absence of oxygen, Anna Kolenova, a deputy chief physician of the Rostov Hospital No. 20, is accused. She has been charged with negligence.

The heads of the Timashevsk and Labinsk Districts decided to cancel entertainment events and fireworks on the City Day because of the special military operation in Ukraine.

In the village of Kaluzhskaya in the Seversky District, 162 land plots have been provided into ownership to families with many children. However, the plots have no road and no connected communications. The district prosecutor's office has appealed to the court demanding from local authorities to eliminate the violations.

An investigator in the city of Kropotkin (Krasnodar Territory) has refused to initiate a criminal case into the death of Giorgi Kavelidze, a resident of the territory, whose relatives claim that he died after being beaten by law enforcers, the "Team against Torture"* has informed.

Amid Ramzan Kadyrov's reports about the next sending of special force fighters to Ukraine, a video has appeared in social networks of the oath recited by combatants from Chechnya, pledging to "wage gazavat (sacred war) in the name of Allah."

By means of his statements about the need for self-mobilization, Kadyrov is trying to try on the functions of the Minister of Defence and once again show his loyalty to Putin, but "he runs ahead of the locomotive," the experts, Dmitry Oreshkin and Alexei Malashenko, have suggested.

Governors should not react to the call of the head of Chechnya to send a thousand volunteers each to Ukraine, while Ramzan Kadyrov himself could set an example by sending his children and sons of Chechen high-ranking officials to the war zone. This was stated by social network users from Dagestan.

On demand of the prosecutor's office, a court in Moscow has arrested the office of the liquidated "International Memorial"*, which was legally donated to another organization, human rights defenders have reported, treating this as an attempt to raider capture of property.

Ramzan Kadyrov's laudatory words about Russian militaries' actions in Ukraine, which followed his criticism of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD), are caused by his misunderstanding of the role of the head of Chechnya in the special operation, Alexei Malashenko believes.

Russia has ceased to be a party to the Convention on Human Rights in connection with its withdrawal from the Council of Europe, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has announced.

The Supreme Court of Chechnya refused to grant the claim for payment of compensation for moral damage to relatives of policemen Aslanbek Kukaev and Roslanbek Damaev, who perished during the “mopping-up” operation in Grozny.

The case of Ivan Danilov, a Krasnodar resident, accused of discrediting the Russian Army, has arrived in the court.

Andrei Fokin has held his hunger strike for three days in protest against his arrest during the elections, where he acted as a confidant of the candidate for the Lermontov city council from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF).

Until the inquiry into the terror act committed at the Beslan school is completed, the building must be mothballed; this is the opinion of Emma Tagaeva from the "Voice of Beslan" and 380 victims who have signed the call not to create a museum at the venue of people's deaths.

The Cassation Court (CC) has found no violations in the case of Said-Mukhammad Djumaev, a native of Chechnya, who was sentenced to five years in prison for using violence against law enforcers at a rally in Moscow. The CC has upheld the verdict.

Ramzan Kadyrov, his wife Medni and three daughters, as well as Fatima Khazueva and Aminad Akhmadova, who were named Kadyrov's wives on the list, have been sanctioned by the US Treasury Department. The "Firdaus" Fashion House, headed by Aishat Kadyrova, is also included into the sanctions list.

The introduction of a fee for visiting a light and music show at a new fountain in Derbent is quite justified, but the Mayoralty has raised prices too much, tourists say. The show is visited by whole families; and it turns out very expensive, residents of Dagestan believe.

The Supreme Court of Russia considered a claim filed by the “Roskomnadzor” (the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media) and decided to stop the validity of the certificate of registration issued for the electronic media outlet of the “Novaya Gazeta” website.

In Sochi, the police detained five participants of a spontaneous protest action to save dogs. Animal rights defender Viktoria Mylnikova, who tried to draw the attention of law enforcers to animal cruelty, has been charged with hooliganism.

The Supreme Court of Chechnya cancelled a court’s decision on a claim filed by the Russian Ministry of Finance, which challenged the award of compensation amounting to 400,000 roubles to Shamsold Akhyadov, a resident of Chechnya, for being wounded during the second Chechen military campaign.