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While defending oppositionist Alexei Navalny from the accusations of Islamophobia, Tumso Abdurakhmanov criticizes a Muslim blogger, YouTube users note. They also recall the Tumso Abdurakhmanov's criticism of Imam Shamil.

Militants on the federal wanted list led by Aslan Byutukaev were killed during a special operation conducted on the outskirts of the village of Katar-Yurt, the leader of Chechnya reports today.

If Azerbaijan allows residents of Nagorno-Karabakh to drive across its territory to Armenia, the travel length will make about 50 kilometres instead of about 500. Thus, the Azeri authorities could reduce political confrontation and speed up the settlement of the Karabakh conflict, political analysts have noted.

Armenian authorities should disclose the number of residents who are held captive in Azerbaijan, as this will strengthen the protection of their rights, as well as speed up their return to their homeland, the Armenian ombudsperson, Arman Tatoyan, has stated.

A commemoration of the lawyer, Stanislav Markelov, and the journalist, Anastasia Baburova, was held in Moscow. Authorities refused to sanction a traditional march; and those wishing to honour the memory of Markelov and Baburova laid flowers at the venue of their murder in Prechistenka Street.

The cells of the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where leaders of the Ingush protest movement, accused of creating an extremist community, are kept, are cold; they are brought to court sessions from Pyatigorsk to Essentuki in narrow booths, their advocates assert.

In Chechnya, people are threatened with sanctions for refusing to get vaccinated against coronavirus; therefore, it is easier to buy a certificate that the vaccination has been made, local residents assert.

A court in Magas, the capital of Ingushetia, has released Rashid Maisigov, an Ingush activist, from criminal liability in connection with the decriminalization of the article on public appeals against the territorial integrity of Russia.

The Anti-Corruption Foundation (headed by Alexei Navalny and known under the Russian abbreviation of FBK) has issued an investigatory film about Putin's palace near the city of Gelendjik in the Krasnodar Territory, the largest private house in Russia, which is being built for the money of state-owned companies. The total area of the palace is over 17,000 square meters; a land plot of 7000 hectares is adjacent thereto; this area could house 39 Monaco principalities, says Alexei Navalny.

Last night was the coldest during 1.5 months of the round-the-clock protest action being held in the central square of Tskhinvali. Relatives of Inal Djabiev claim they will continue their protest, despite the forecast of a further cold snap.

In the Syunik Region, local residents came to a protest action. They believe that the opposition and, in particular, Vazgen Manukyan, are responsible for the current situation in Armenia.

Rescuers of the Armenian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) were taken to the Kapan hospital after they had been blown up by a mine near the town of Megri.

The authorities of South Ossetia should supply hospitals with oxygen stations for treatment of coronavirus-infected patients in order to avoid a shortage of oxygen when the Transcaucasian highway is closed, Instagram users note.

The study of native languages in Moscow schools is being hampered by the lack of teachers and the specifics of the school group formation, members of the Moscow ethnic communities say. The activists proposed Mayor Sergey Sobyanin to organize distance learning in native languages and create a Centre for the Study of Languages of the Peoples of Russia.

During the search works conducted in the Karabakh conflict zone, remains of a resident of Gadrut and seven Armenian soldiers were found, the State Emergency Service of Nagorno-Karabakh has informed.

Peacemakers have escorted another group of refugees from Yerevan to Stepanakert. A total of 50,002 people have already returned to their homes in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

In the conditions of a garbage collapse, the Makhachkala communal services have to load the garbage manually or with the help of tractors and take it out in ordinary trucks, since they have no specialized machinery, the "Makhachkala-1" municipal institution has explained. Both performers and officials are to blame for the garbage collapse, local residents assert.

Archil Parsalashvili, a resident of the village of Kurskaya, Stavropol Territory, who was beaten last December by law enforcers, has been discharged from hospital; however, as stated by his father Nikolai, he will not be able to fully recover his health.

On the eve of Alexei Navalny's return to Russia, Kurban Askandarov, a popular Dagestani blogger, had criticized Alexei, to which Tumso Abdurakhmanov, a well-known Chechen blogger, has treated in his new video this fact as an example of deliberate discrediting of Navalny in the Caucasus.

Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh should be able to drive to Armenia through the Azerbaijan-controlled territory, not only along the Lachin Corridor, protesters have claimed.