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Marina Sotskova, a Russian-speaking resident of the Grozny village of Vozrozhdeniye, filmed a video in which she expressed her concern that hazardous waste would be dumped into a local river through a pipe that was being laid from the airport.

Doctors have diagnosed traumas to activist Roman Taganov, who was hospitalized in the city of Maykop after being beaten up there. The attacker demanded to stop placing his posts in the social network.

In Kazakhstan, in the village of Malaya Saran, unknown vandals have destroyed the memorial sign dedicated to Akhmat Kadyrov, the father of the current Chechen leader and the first president of the republic. Offensive inscriptions appeared on another monument in the village.

A native of Chechnya, Ali Bataev, was taken to a medical centre in Zurich on the 52nd day of his hunger strike, after which he was returned to the deportation centre, the "European Peace House" reports.

The prosecution has asked for a conditional imprisonment of four years for Irina Perefilyeva, a Jehovah's Witness* from the village of Mednogorsky. The prosecutor has stated that such a punishment is asked given the absence of aggravating circumstances, the human rights project "OVD-Info"** has reported.

The idea to ban religious marriages without presenting by newlyweds of certificates about the absence of drug addiction and HIV infection is relevant for Ingushetia, local residents and activists have pointed out.

The investigator has unreasonably refused to provide advocates with the materials of the death case of a four-year-old girl from the city of Malgobek, the advocates assert and ask the court to cancel this refusal.

The condition of Ali Bataev, a native of Chechnya, became critical amid a 51-day hunger strike in a deportation centre in Switzerland, the “European House of Peace” organization claims.

Journalist Elena Milashina associates an attack she and advocate Alexander Nemov suffered in Grozny with a case of missing Chechen policeman Yasin Khalidov. The attackers were interested in the information that Yasin Khalidov had managed to pass on to human rights defenders before his detention, Elena Milashina believes.

Zagir Yakubov, a native of the Stavropol Territory, who was sentenced to 14 years in prison as a participant in the attack of Shamil Basaev's and Khattab's grouping on Dagestan in 1999, has committed suicide.

The medical commission has found Alexei Abramov, a resident of Krasnodar, mobilized with spinal hernias, as partially fit for military service. His wife has stated that he is being prepared for sending to the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine.

After complaints from the Chechens living in the village of Kemsi-Yurt and Mansur Soltaev's talks with local authorities, it was decided to build a kindergarten and a medical facility in the village, as well as to construct a road from Khasavyurt.

The illegal circulation of the weapons originating from the special military operation (SMO) zone is widespread among all fighters; sometimes entire units can be involved therein, analysts have pointed out in their comments on the case of the shooting of a "Wagner" fighter at law enforcers in the Rostov Region.

The reason for an accusation report against advocate Kaloi Akhilgov was his comments in the media, recognized as foreign agents. An author of the accusation report suggested that Kaloi Akhilgov and his colleagues refuse to speak in the media.

In Krasnodar, a court of cassation cancelled the verdict to Mikhail Selitsky, who was sentenced to compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital in a case on vandalism motivated by political hostility. The court sent the case for retrial. That was reported by the “OVD-Info”* human rights project with reference to advocate Rustam Mukhamadeev.

The court has treated the photo of a bag with an expression about the death of the country's president, posted by a 21-year-old woman from Krasnodar on the Internet, as discrediting Russian militaries and fined her by 30,000 roubles.

The complaint against the refusal to initiate a case of torturing Timur Debishev, an actor, has been once again returned by the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya to the Visaitovsky District Court of Grozny. However, the judge who had received the complaint has withdrawn himself by using a formal pretext, Ekaterina Vanslova, a human rights defender, has informed.

The President of Russia has decorated Aimani Kadyrova with the Order of Honour for her active social work, the head of Chechnya has informed.

Convicted Konstantin Fokin filed to court a claim against the Federal Penitentiary Service and demanded to pay him 500,000 roubles in compensation for moral damages for poor conditions in a Volgograd SIZO (pre-trial prison). The court refused to consider the claim, as the statute of limitations had been missed.

More than a hundred young people gathered at night on the border between Dagestan and Chechnya after a domestic conflict between two persons, and the situation required the intervention of the police, sources reported.