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The court that considers the case of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev has rejected the petition lodged by Rizvanov, who asked to treat his identification in a photo by a secret witness as inadmissible proof.

The villagers' protest action against the construction of fish farms on the Chirkei Reservoir was caused by the authorities' insufficient reaction and fears that the above construction would still begin, residents of the village of Chirkei have stated.

At the court session that considered the complaint against the verdict in the so-called "Ingush case", the defendants-activists asked to send their case to the first-instance court because of the violations, but the court has dismissed the petition.

A mother of Movsar Umarov requested the law enforcement bodies to resume the investigation into the case on her son’s disappearance in the summer of 2020, but the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya rejected the request, a lawyer of the “Team Against Torture”* reported.

Ramzan Kadyrov got involved in the construction of a mosque in Moscow in order to highlight himself as the main defender of Russia’s Muslims and demonstrate his increased influence, although formally he has no right to interfere in any events in another region.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has found a violation of the rights of Mikhail Nazarenko, a resident of the Stavropol Territory, who was arrested after a spontaneous gathering in the city of Mineralnye Vody (Minvody) held in 2015.

A court in Paris has launched an investigation into the actions of the head of the French Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and two other officials involved in the deportation of Magomed Gadaev, a native of Chechnya, who was then sentenced to imprisonment in his homeland.

The Krasnodar Garrison Military Court has sentenced Sergey Lyakh to 3.5 years in prison and stripped him of his military rank for two cases of leaving his unit during the mobilization period.

The verdict in the case of three natives of Dagestan for beating a passenger in the Moscow metro was predetermined due to a media campaign against the defendants, their defence believes.

Mariana Katsarova, a Bulgarian human rights defender, who worked as a journalist in the war zone in Chechnya and also took part in monitoring human rights violations in Northern Caucasus, has been appointed the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Russia.

The law enforcers’ losses during an armed clash in the village of Zyazikov-Yurt, including three killed and eight wounded persons, became the largest number of casualties within a day among the law enforcers in Ingushetia after August 2012, the “Caucasian Knot” calculated.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya again cancelled the decision of the instance court, which refused to consider common-law wife of Salman Tepsurkaev as a victim in the case on his kidnapping.

Explosive devices and ammunition have been found in the houses of three residents of the Malgobek District, relatives of the alleged militant. All of them have been detained, the power structures of Ingushetia have informed.

Three policemen have perished and eight wounded during the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the Malgobek District of Ingushetia, a law enforcement source has informed.

Vitaly Votanovsky, a blogger and an activist from Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), said that he had left Russia. Earlier, he received threats after filming the graves of the militaries, who perished in Ukraine, and posting them in his Telegram channel entitled "Titushki in Krasnodar".

The court of appeal has increased from 500,000 to 1,000,000 roubles the compensation awarded for moral harm suffered by Djuliet Kardanova, a farmer from the city of Nartan, who was acquitted within the fraud case when receiving subsidies. Kardanova has treated the court's decision as fair.

The court of cassation reduced from 100,000 to 30,000 roubles the fine imposed on Magdi Kamalov, a founder of the Dagestani weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft), under the article on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

The second of six residents of Ingushetia, whom the law enforcement bodies consider involved in an attack on a road-and-patrol police service (known as DPS) checkpoint, has been found dead today. Presumably, this is Movsar Kottoev, sources report.

A resident of Krasnodar has parked his car stylized as an American patrol police car near the administration building of the Krasnodar Territory. The court arrested him for seven days having treated his action as an unsanctioned rally.

Akhmad Kottoev has promised not to avenge the death of his son Movsar, who is wanted in Ingushetia as a militant.