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The father of Ilya Smolin, who was kept at the temporary isolation facility (known as the IVS) in the city of Yeysk, has learned about his son's death from strangers; for more than a week, he was not allowed to examine his son's body in the morgue.

Residents of the village of Kakashura, demanding to allocate land to them, achieved a meeting with Batyr Emeev, the Deputy Prime Minister of Dagestan. If the land plot, which caused the villagers' conflict with district officials, is free, it will be transferred to villagers, Batyr Emeev has promised.

The book, prepared with the support of the Heinrich Böll Fund, tells about lives of the women, whose example can inspire and destroy stereotypes about the hard situation of women in the society of Northern Caucasian.

The Dagestani police detained a man for murder in Makhachkala. According to video of the interrogation, the detainee said that he had avenged the murdered man for his “Muslim sister.”

Advocates requested the court to transfer Zarema Musaeva to house arrest due to her state of health, but the court dismissed the request, although an ambulance was called again at night, advocate Arkady Shindyapin said. Abubakar Yangulbaev, a son of Zarema Musaeva, notes that the court is under pressure.

The authorities of Azerbaijan have not yet concluded a peace treaty with Armenia, and therefore, residents of the border villages fear the resumption of combat actions. The situation is calm in the Tovuz, Terter, and Agdjabadi Districts, but restoration work is going slowly, and there are problems with communications, local residents say.

According to Ibragim Yangulbaev, his father and mother, as well as other relatives, are not involved in the 1Adat Movement” and are not its leaders. He pointed to contradictions in the Chechen authorities’ accusations against members of the Yangulbaev family.

Rimma Gagloeva, a disappeared resident of North Ossetia, was engaged in fortune-telling and removing the evil eye effect, which could be the reason for her disappearance, suggests her nephew Giorgi Gagloev. According to him, a video appeal to Ramzan Kadyrov concerning the disappearance gained over half a million views, but there was no reaction from the leader of Chechnya.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has considered the complaint lodged by the defence against the arrest of Zarema Musaeva and refused to satisfy it, one of the advocates has informed.

Supporters of the oppositional "National Democratic Pole" (NDP) have held a rally in Yerevan in defence of the country's sovereignty. They criticized the statement of Belarusian President, Alexander Lukashenko, about the prospects for Armenia's accession to the Union State of Russia and Belarus.

Djalil Zabidov, an activist of the "Democracy-1918" movement in Azerbaijan, who got infected with coronavirus, must serve the remainder of his term at the isolation facility after recovery, the court has ruled.

By responding to their statements, Chechen authorities have themselves created popularity for their critics; and the decision to refuse from further commenting on criticism has resulted from Kadyrov's meeting with Putin amid the conflict with the Yangulbaev family, analysts have noted.

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) refused to investigate the brutal murder of a Syrian resident committed by alleged members of the "Vagner grouping", in which a law enforcer whom the Stavropol Territory was identified.

When commenting on the news about the creation of a working group in Azerbaijan to remove Armenian inscriptions on Albanian temples, the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and human rights defenders have said that the plans to change the identity of religious, historical, and cultural monuments in Nagorno-Karabakh violate the requirement of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

A criminal case on financing of terrorism has been instituted against a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria: the woman is suspected of transferring money to members of terrorist groupings abroad.

In Nizhny Novgorod, investigators forwarded to the Prosecutor’s Office of Chechnya a complaint about the kidnapping of Zarema Musaeva, so as not to take on the clarification of the involvement of Chechen law enforcers in the kidnapping, lawyer Nadezhda Yermolaeva suggests.

Investigators recognized other 163 people who were tortured as victims of the “Terter case”, and the total number of victims reached 281. Four military men were arrested on the charge of using torture, the General Prosecutor’s Office of Azerbaijan reported.

Law enforcers have summoned five participants of the gathering against the laying of high-voltage power lines through the dwelling settlement of Bammatbekyurt, and demanded to name the organizer; and drew up a protocol on the villager who was filming the event. Law enforcers are trying to put pressure on activists so that they stop protesting, local residents have suggested.

Ushangi Datunashvili, 66, accused of attacking a "Rustavi-2" cameraman at a protest action against a gay parade in July last year, has been appointed a bail of 3000 laris. His advocate stated poor health condition of his client.

Adam Arsaev, a taxi driver from Ingushetia was transporting Rimma Gagloeva, a passenger from North Ossetia, from the Grozny Airport. They stopped answering calls; then, Arsaev's car was found near the Ingush-Chechen border.