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The video showing a man in a pink dress dancing at the entrance to Grozny has outraged network users. Some commentators on the Instagram* insist that he should apologize for his behaviour; others indicated that tourists should be explained the rules of behaviour in Chechnya.

The protocol on disobeying a policeman drawn up against Magsud Aliev, an Azerbaijani activist, contains no proofs of his guilt, his advocate asserts.

Shamil Bekbolatov, a father with many children from the Kayakent District, complained that law enforcers were beating him during his detention, including beating him on his head with a stone, and that as a result he ended up in a hospital.

In Baku, a court has begun considering a complaint filed by a policeman, who considered a post left on a social media outlet by Gyulnara Ragimova, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), to be slander and an insult.

Members of the “Azerbaijan Democracy and Prosperity” Party have held a picket in front of the building of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Azerbaijan because of its third refusal to register the opposition organization. The protestors believe the grounds for refusal in registration are untenable.

Residents of the village of Gikalo asked the leader of Chechnya to help connect to the gas pipeline and electricity networks. According to the villagers, their appeals to local officials do not bring any results. Instagram* users suggested that the appeal to Ramzan Kadyrov could be followed by an apology from the villagers.

In his answer to the complaint lodged by the "Team against Torture"*, the head of the Krasnodar Territorial Branch of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), has admitted that the preliminary inquiry into the torture case of Aram Gambaryan was suspended unreasonably.

Salman Tepsurkaev, a native of Chechnya, was killed in September 2020 and buried in an unmarked grave because his relatives were told to "bury him like a dog," a Chechen Telegram channel asserts.

A court in the Stavropol Territory has received the case against Svetlana Zaitseva, a local resident, accused of discrediting the Russian Army.

Vyacheslav Koshelev, an activist, has held a three-day dry hunger strike, demanding better custody conditions at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where he is awaiting a decision on his appeal.

Amid the FSB's report on the rapid disclosure of the murder of Darya Dugina, human rights defenders have recalled the still unsolved murders of Anna Politkovskaya, Natalia Estemirova and Boris Nemtsov.

Salman Tepsurkaev, a native of Chechnya, could not be helped, and it is known for sure about his death, Olga Sadovskaya, a lawyer of the “Team Against Torture”*, says.

The 2020 agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh does not define the territorial affiliation of the Lachin Corridor and its borders, which allowed each side to interpret the agreements in its own way.

Activist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev sent an appeal to the President of Azerbaijan to renounce the citizenship of the country. The activist has explained his decision by receiving threats from the local law enforcement bodies.

An investigation has been launched into a criminal case on causing minor bodily harm against natives of Chechnya who beat Pavel Gerasimov.

The electricity voltage in central Grozny is very weak, a social media user has complained. Commentators supported him, noting that this problem is observed throughout the republic.

The Moscow Arbitration Court has stopped proceedings on the claim of the "Conde Nast" Publishing House (PH), which demanded from the "Firdaws" Fashion House to return 814,000 roubles of debt and to pay 893,000 roubles as penalty.

Since May this year, water has been supplied to the village of Inarki, Malgobek District of Ingushetia, with outages; and since July, due to the heat, there has been no water at all, a local resident has stated.

Bakhtiyar Gadjiev, an activist, was released after almost four hours of detention. According to his story, law enforcers forced him to remove his critical posts from social networks about the head of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs and threatened him with arrest for new posts about the minister.

As stated by Rasul Djafarov, a Baku-based human rights defender, the area of the Lachin Corridor was occupied not by militaries, but civil defence members, who perform protection functions.