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The first hearing in a case on riots at the “Uitash” airport in Makhachkala was held at a court in the Stavropol Territory. Two of the eight defendants, in addition to participating in mass riots and violating transport safety rules, have been accused of attacking policemen.

The sentence of Timur Idalov, an advocate from Chechnya, in a case on threatening a public prosecutor will be challenged. Lawyers called the deprivation of the opportunity to practice law the most severe part of the Timur Idalov’s punishment, although the term of forced labour is close to the maximum stipulated by the article.

Zakhar Zaripov, a writer and an oncology patient, convicted of an appeal to the head of Chechnya, has been released from the SIZO (pre-trial prison).

Relatives of Ramazan Rabadanov have found a doctor who can help him with the cervical vertebrae damaged during his detention.

The actions of the Dagestani natives who desecrated the Eternal Flame in Nevinnomyssk were assessed by investigators as rehabilitation of Nazism, although they should have been qualified under a more lenient article of vandalism or hooliganism.

In her complaint lodged with the chair of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), activist Tatiana Polivanova asked to check the legality of the law enforcers’ actions in connection with her criminal prosecution and the seizure of more than 11,000 plots of land in Sochi from owners.

Special commissions reunited 2659 divorced couples in the republic.

The harsh sentence for five Dagestanis accused within the case of riots at the Makhachkala Airport will be appealed against; the defence claims absence of proofs of their guilt.

The Khimki City Court (Moscow Region) has sentenced Timur Idalov, a Chechen advocate, to one year and 11 months of forced labour within a case of threats to a prosecutor. He was also banned from practicing advocacy for three years, the human rights project "OVD-Info"* has informed.

The administration of the penal colony located in the town of Uryupinsk has extended the custody term in the dungeon (punishment cell) of Igor Nagavkin, who has declared a hunger strike, having treated him as a malicious violator; they prepare documents to transfer him to a general regime colony.

Zakhar Zaripov, a writer, convicted for an appeal to the head of Chechnya, remains at the Khabarovsk SIZO (pre-trial prison), despite the cancellation of his punishment associated with freedom deprivation. The SIZO bosses refuse to release him until they receive the text of the verdict.

A court fined Nalchik residents Margarita Getazheeva and Timbora Takov, who posted calls for conscripts’ parents to attend a rally in connection with the fighting in the Kursk Region.

During his detention by the police in Makhachkala, activist Ramazan Rabadanov suffered a cervical vertebrae injury.

The police detained a 47-year-old resident of Malgobek accused of kidnapping a resident of the Kirov Region in 1999 for ransom.

The Nalchik Garrison Military Court has rejected the claim lodged by Nikolai Spichkin, a military serviceman, who asked to find him unfit for service due to the removal of part of his intestines after the received wound.

A court in the Moscow Region has found no violation in the words of Ekaterina Neroznikova, a human rights defender, about the case of Seda Suleimanova. The reason for stopping the prosecution under the article on participation in an undesirable organization was in violations in the protocol, the human rights project "OVD-Info"* has informed.

The military appellate court has replaced the five-year term of Zakhar Zaripov, convicted of appealing to the head of Chechnya, with a fine. After a cancer surgery, half of Zaripov's face is paralyzed and his vision has deteriorated.

The court of appeal refused to grant the appeals filed against the verdicts to five men convicted in the case on riots at the airport in Makhachkala.

The “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial” human rights project recognized Ruslan Nurushev, a lawyer from Volgograd, as a political prisoner. This status is important from a political and moral point of view.

In Karachay-Cherkessia, the law enforcement bodies suspected activist Guzel Kasimova from Tatarstan of posting leaflets about an impending terror act.