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Chechen athletes should agree their behaviour when outside the republic with authorities, local officials have announced, explaining this by the concern for the image of the Chechen people.

The remarks of passers-by to tourists about their appearance in Chechnya are quite appropriate, users of the Chechen public wrote after a video of men walking down the street in shorts. Hotels and the Ministry of Tourism should control tourists' behaviour, others have objected.

Officials will take Ramzan Kadyrov's words about depriving the families of those who refused to go to serve in law enforcement bodies as a guide to action; such methods of pressure indicate a shortage of people who want to get enrolled in new structures, Svetlana Gannushkina and Ruslan Kutaev, human rights defenders, have pointed out.

Ramazan Dugiev, an Ingush sign language interpreter, has been sentenced to 1.5 years of conditional imprisonment for alleged using violence against law enforcers during 2019 protests in Magas.

The appointment of Philip T. Reeker as senior adviser on negotiations in the Caucasus has shown that the USA treats the OSCE Minsk Group as a relevant format for the settlement of the Karabakh conflict, Armenian political analysts believe.

Politically motivated arrests are widespread in Azerbaijan; they are applied voluntarily in violation of national laws and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the NGO "Institute for Democratic Initiatives" (IDI) has stated.

The hunger strike will not stop until the leadership of the Rustavi Prison is replaced, the prisoners, who continue the action because of absence of medical care and ban on relatives' visits.

A police major is suspected of attacking Igor Kalyapin, the founder of the "Committee against Torture"*; the policeman has been fired, the Human Rights Council (HRC) has informed.

The human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners" has announced Zarema Musaeva to be a political prisoner; the woman is being tried in Chechnya under the articles of an assault on a law enforcer and a fraud.

A court in Tbilisi has released on bail three oppositionists detained during a rally in support of ex-President of Georgia Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili. One of them said he was not going to pay the bail.

Ramzan Kadyrov has called on the President of Russia to let Chechen fighters to complete the special military operation in Ukraine. According to him version, the Chechen units are ready to "go to Europe."

The defence challenged the ban on leaving the country imposed on Anara Alieva, a spouse of an arrested activist. According to the woman, by banning her departure, investigators want to get evidence against her husband.

The security forces began to put pressure on forensic expert Gadji Magomedov, who did not agree to turn a blind eye to the signs of beatings on a body of a detainee and included them in his report.

Ramzan Kadyrov is suspected of preparing and participating in the special military operation in Ukraine, of justifying the actions of the Russian troops, and also of intending to change the borders of Ukraine. This was reported by the Security Service of Ukraine in its Telegram channel.

The Azerbaijani Army has entered the town of Lachin and took control over the villages of Zabukh and Sus, Azeri President, Ilham Aliev, has announced.

Guram Svanidze, a prisoner from the Gldani Prison (in Tbilisi), who was wounded during a shootout at a psychiatric clinic, has died from his wounds at hospital.

The execution of the death sentence of Djokhar Tsarnaev, a native of Chechnya, convicted of a terror act in Boston, has been postponed until his complaint is considered, his advocate has informed.

Armenia has failed to finish its section of the road alternative to the Lachin Corridor, but Azerbaijan undertook it at the request of the Armenian community of Karabakh. This was announced by the Azeri State Highway Agency (ASHA) that promised to open the new road for traffic within the next week.

In the city of Novorossiysk, a local resident was detained for posting a video in the social network with statements discrediting the Russian Army.

The 14-year-old schoolboy who was beaten up by Volgograd policemen was recognized as a victim. According to the family's advocate, there were many controversial and strange points in the case.