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The Court of Appeal has increased the sentence for the man convicted of attacking the Chechen blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, up to 12 years in prison. The charge against his female accomplice was re-qualified under a milder article; her sentence was reduced from eight years to one and a half years.

The monument to Russian writer and diplomat, Alexander Griboyedov, in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, has been desecrated with an anti-Russian inscription and an insult to journalist Vladimir Pozner.

Azerbaijani journalist and human rights defender Elchin Mamed suffers from pain in his legs and has difficulties with walking. He needs a medical examination, the mother of the prisoner reports.

The Russian government allowed capital construction on biosphere testing grounds, and there is a threat of destruction of unique plants and landscapes on the Lago-Naki Plateau, ecologist Dmitry Shevchenko claims.

Members of the opposition “United National Movement” Party used an uncivilized manner to speak against the visit of Russian journalist Vladimir Pozner to Georgia, and their act damaged the country’s image, claim Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and Mamuka Mdinaradze, a member of the ruling the “Georgian Dream” Party.

Ramzan Kadyrov has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. This was announced by Vyacheslav Tyutyunnik, the president of the International Nobel Information Centre (INC) located in Tambov.

The Russian journalist, Vladimir Pozner, has flown out of Tbilisi amid the protests organized by citizens demanding from him to leave the country. A similar demand was voiced at the protest action held this night by Batumi townspeople.

Employees of Grozny kindergartens and schools have received instructions from officials to take part in subbotniks (community clean-up works), which, according to the decision of city authorities, begin on April 1.

The journalist Vladimir Pozner, who came to Georgia with a Russian delegation to celebrate his birthday, must leave the country, as he spoke out against its territorial integrity, oppositionists have stated at an action in Tbilisi.

The ambulance doctors who came to Ibragim Gadjiev, a detained witness in the case against policemen Raip and Ziyavudin Ashikov, fixed traces of beatings and use of electric current on his body, said Uma Askerkhanova, a member of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) of Dagestan.

In Volgograd, three activists have held solo pickets supporting the "Strategy-31" campaign. The picketers called on to observe the norms of the Constitution and demanded to release Alexei Navalny.

By the outcomes of secret ballot, Khas-Magomed Kadyrov has been appointed Mayor of Grozny, the City Duma has informed.

The journalist, Polad Aslanov, convicted in Azerbaijan within the case of high treason, is in a cell with 17 other prisoners and is exposed to pressure, his wife said and called on the Ombudsperson to help preventing the violation of Aslanov's rights in the colony

Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev, arrested in Chechnya, should be taken under increased protection after the reports that there were attempts to persuade their relatives to commit so-called “honour killings,” an advocate reports.

Singer and popular Instagram blogger Olga Buzova announced a car giveaway. To participate in it, a person should follow the accounts of Ramzan Kadyrov, Idris Cherkhigov, the chief of the GIBDD (road police) Department for Chechnya, and UFC fighter Khamzat Chimaev.

In Adygea, a chalet accompanied with three kilometres of ski slopes and cable cars is used as a personal winter resort for the first person of the state; the chalet was built with budget money and is being guarded by the Federal Security Service, the magazine “Sobesednik” (Interlocutor) reports.

Today, the Armenian Prosecutor’s Office has reported that the court sentenced the people accused of illegal transportation of weapons from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia, to 1-4 years of imprisonment.

Today, in Makhachkala, armed people have taken Ibragim Gadjiev, a witness in a case against policemen Raip and Ziyavudin Ashikov, away from his house. The armed people were seconded law enforcers, Sapiyat Magomedova, an advocate in the Ashikov brothers’ case, suggested.

The verdict of the Azerbaijani journalist and human rights defender, Elchin Mamed, has been appealed against at the Supreme Court (SC). Rights defenders have also appealed to the Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice (MoJ) with a demand to transfer Mamed to a medical institution of the Penitentiary Service – a subordinate to the MoJ.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized the death in a colony of Tarkhan Kartoev, a native of Ingushetia, convicted within the case of blowing up the "Nevsky Express", as a violation of the right to life.