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The growing number of migrants from Chechnya, who apply for the refugee status in Germany, has to do with the policies pursued by the Chechen leadership of suppressing the dissent, believes Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, the Director of the Project for Russia and Northern Caucasus of the International Crisis Group (ICG).

The Azeri Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MIA) has treated the resolution on the Armenian Genocide adopted by the German Bundestag as biased and accused German MPs of "double standards" at the background of "the German indifference to Armenia's ethnic cleansings in Nagorno-Karabakh."

The wounding of Roland Pliev, an OMON (riot police) fighter, happened inadvertently, said the defendant Marat Bukulov. According to his version, he fired his pistol in order to stop his beating by the victim. Pliev himself has confirmed that had struck a few blows.

The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) has recognized activists Bairam Mamedov and Giyas Ibragimov to be "prisoners of conscience"; they were arrested in Azerbaijan on charges of illegal drug dealing.

This morning, Akhmad Shikhmagomedov, an owner of the Muslim "Ummah" shop, has left his home in Makhachkala, and since then, his whereabouts is unknown. His wife has reported to the police about his possible kidnapping.

Physicians have disconnected Shakhbulat Shamkhalaev from an artificial respirator unit, he regained consciousness. This was reported by Shakhmurad Shamkhalaev, a brother of the athlete. Meanwhile, he has denied the media reports that the athlete had a kidney removed.

At the request of the defence, the Maikop City Court has appointed a handwriting examination of the protocol of interrogation of one of the prosecution witnesses. This was reported by ecologist Valery Brinikh.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to appoint Police Major General Sergey Bachurin the head of the Chief Department for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). The decree was published on the website of legal information.

The Urvan District Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has sentenced a local resident to two years of imprisonment in a penal colony for an attempt to leave for Syria to take part in the combat actions on the side of the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS) banned in Russia.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has pronounced a decision concerning the complaint of Azerbaijani human rights defender Leyla Yunus and her husband Arif Yunus, who complained about being tortured during their arrest. The ECtHR has obliged the Azerbaijani authorities to pay the Yunus spouses 13,000 euros for compensation for moral damage.

The recognition by Berlin of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire will promote the similar processes in other countries. This opinion was voiced by Armenian experts on the eve of the voting in the Bundestag.

A Dagestani prosecutor has revealed violations of penitentiary, sanitary-epidemiological, fire-safety and labour legislation in SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 2 of the Dagestan Department of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN), located in the city of Derbent.

The advocate of the wrestler Said Osmanov, suspected of vandalizing the statue of Buddha in Elista, expects to change the measure of the freedom restraint of his client for house arrest.

A record from a surveillance camera from the scene of the attack on Shakhbulat Shamkhalaev, a well-known fighter of mixed martial arts (MMA), in Makhachkala has got into the Internet. The athlete was hit by six bullets.

The preliminary investigation of the case initiated against Talekh Bagirzade, the leader of the "Muslim Unity" Movement, and his supporters, accused of committing serious crimes, is over. They will appear before the court together with Fuad Gakhramanly, Deputy Chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA).

Karnik Aslanyan, a defendant in the case of Sergey Zirinov, a Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar Territory, has assured that he was not a member of the armed grouping and not involved in the indicted crimes.

In the presence of the head of Dagestan, members of the Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC) entered into a dispute with the head of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and a Vice-Premier, stating the need to abandon the practice of persecuting for the dissent.

Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the head of Ingushetia, has demanded from law enforcers should use the available video records to identify participants of the brawl in the hospital morgue of Nazran and the theft of the body of Khizir Galaev.

The situation with the Olympic heritage in Sochi should be examined by the law enforcement bodies. This was stated by three members of the commission set up under the administration of the region, who refused to sign the resolution on the houses in the Olympic villages.

Based on the judgement of the Leninsky District Court of Grozny, the "Roskomnadzor" (Federal Service for Supervising Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Media) has put the page, containing the article "Islam", of the Internet-based encyclopaedia Lurkmore, into the register of banned websites, said Dmitri Khomak, the project founder.