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The Circassian Flag Day consolidates the Adygs (Circassians) in Southern Russia and abroad, but this is primarily a merit of public organizations, not the authorities, the Circassian activists who had left Russia have indicated.

Zarema Musaeva remains in the colony for now; her advocates are seeking her transfer to a medical institution, but urgent hospitalization is out of question, the "Team Against Torture" (TaT)* has informed.

The green flag with arrows and stars symbolizes the entire combination of national cultural values for the Circassians and gives hope for the future, emphasize participants in the celebration of the Circassian Flag Day in Nalchik.

In Grozny, a court recognized illegal the investigators’ refusal to provide Eset Umarova with all the materials of the criminal case on the disappearance of her son Movsar Umarov. The above court’s decision will allow the woman assess the investigators’ work, human rights defenders explain.

Special commissions created on the instructions of Ramzan Kadyrov reunited 2565 divorced couples in Chechnya, the “Grozny” ChGTRK (State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company) reported.

Magomed Atimagomedov, a native of Dagestan, convicted in a case on attacking warders from a Kalmyk penal colony and killing one of them, has his 25-year sentence replaced with life imprisonment.

In Volgograd, a court arrested trash streamer Pavel Prokudin, accused of insulting Russian militaries. The defence asked the court to place Pavel Prokudin under house arrest.

In his colony, Eduard Kulbaev, a convict, is not receiving efficient treatment for diabetes, his mother, Marina Atabieva, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), has informed and called on the prosecutor's office to intervene in the situation.

Law enforcers would not let relatives of Magomed Abubakarov, a British citizen, who was wounded during detention in Urus-Martan and charged under two criminal articles, to see him, an activist of the "Memorial" Centre for Human Rights Defence* has informed.

Zarema Musaeva's health condition in the Argun penal colony where she is kept, has worsened sharply; she lost the ability to move, after which she was hospitalized, Abubakar Yangulbaev, a lawyer and one of Zarema's son, has informed.

In the Stavropol Territory, the appellate instance has upheld three rulings on the fines imposed on Vitaly Fedorenko, who was found guilty of discrediting the Russian Army.

Yuri Mikhailov, who is serving his sentence in Elista, after staying in the Novorossiysk detention centre and the colonies of Kabardino-Balkaria and Kalmykia, became HIV-infected and sick with hepatitis. He demanded compensation for inadequate custody conditions.

General Alikhan Tsakaev should face administrative and criminal liability, but the outcomes of the check conducted by the Main Department for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has failed to fix the General's attempt to attack law enforcers, which is seen in the video.

A man has been detained for attempting to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office in Stavropol. Scammers took three loans in his name and promised to write off the debts after arson of the military registration and enlistment office, Vladimir Vladimirov, Governor of the Stavropol Territory, reports in his Telegram channel.

Sofia Burger, a resident of Krasnodar, has been sentenced to 440 hours of compulsory labour. The Leninsky District Court has found her guilty of insulting believers' feelings by dancing in a cemetery.

Employees of the Rostov tuberculosis hospital of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN), who challenged the verdict in the case on torture of patients, called the testimonies of the victims unreliable, citing their illnesses, reports lawyer Rustam Khanmurzaev.

Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender, whom the Volgograd Regional Court decided to release from custody, has left the territory of the SIZO (pre-trial prison) and went home to the town of Kalach-on-Don, stating that he would seek full rehabilitation.

An attack on policemen in Karachaevsk, as a result of which two of them were killed, is not connected with the armed underground, since it has been practically eliminated in Northern Caucasus.

The court ruling to release Igor Nagavkin, a Volgograd human rights defender, from custody is due to the fact that the judicial system would not admit its mistakes, Yulia Evdokimova, a lawyer and human rights defender, has explained.

Pavel Prokudin, a trash streamer from Volgograd, suspected of insulting fighters at the special military operation (SMO), has been detained in an apartment in Penza registered in someone else's name. He asked for forgiveness and explained that he was drunk.