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Laurita Karpova, a participant in the reality show "Patsanki” (Tomboys), has posted a photo session, which depicts her engagement to another girl. The photos were taken in the Sulak Canyon of Dagestan. After a wave of indignation in social networks, she declared that there was no relationship with the girl in the pictures.

The Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala has refused to consider a journalist Idris Yusupov's lawsuit against the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) about his unjustified detention in September 2022 during an anti-mobilization protest.

The nephew of Akhmed Zakaev, who had been sent to the special military operation (SMO) zone, has criticized his uncle, who supports Ukraine. 

At a meeting with Mansur Soltaev, the Ombudsperson for Chechnya, lawyers of the "Team against Torture" (TaT)* tried to find out how the security of the journalist, Elena Milashina, in Chechnya would be ensured, and how the inquiry into the beating of Nikita Zhuravel, a Volgograd resident, committed at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) was progressing. They failed to receive any specific answers to their questions.

There are some chances for the acquittal of Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev, as well as of Kemal Tambiev and Abubakar Rizvanov, accused of financing terrorism, although the share of acquittals under terrorist articles is extremely small, Gadjiev's colleagues have noted.

In Grozny, the police detained local resident Roza Tsaralieva, after which Adam Elzhurkaev, the chief of the Centre for Islamic Medicine, reprimanded the woman for practicing the occult services, follows from a report released by the “Grozny” ChGTRK (State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company).

Law enforcers tortured Mukhtar and Magomedrasul Bagomedov brothers, who were arrested in Makhachkala, to force them to confess to making explosives, their mother Gulnara Bagomedova complains.

A year after his detention in Ukraine, Imangazali Magomedov, a native of Dagestan, has left the country for the European Union.

At the Manas Airport, in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, law enforcers have detained Mansur Movlaev, a native of Chechnya, who was on the wanted list in Russia within in the case of financing extremism.

Residents of the "Nauchny Gorodok" (Scientific Settlement) micro-district in Makhachkala have blocked motor traffic along Akushinsky Avenue, demanding from authorities and power engineers to solve the long-term problem with the supply of water and electricity to their homes.

Igor Paskar from Volgograd, sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for setting fire to a rug near the FSB building in Krasnodar, has been transferred to the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Novocherkassk. The SIZO staff has placed him into a cell with supporters of the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, who beat him up on the very first day, human rights defenders have informed.

Ramazan Gadjiev, a resident of Dagestan, has complained that employees of the colony in Mordovia, where he is serving his sentence, are poisoning him with bleach, dousing him with liquid from a fire extinguisher and spraying him with pepper spray.

The Chechen officials close to Ramzan Kadyrov have praised his son after reports that he had beaten Nikita Zhuravel at the Grozny SIZO (pre-trial prison); Nikita was arrested in connection with the burning down of the Koran.

The witnesses interrogated at trial have recalled Oleg Orlov's human rights and legislative work, as well as the fact that in Budyonnovsk he voluntarily offered himself as a hostage to Basaev in order to free the prisoners.

A criminal case under a terrorist article has been opened against Abubakar Yangulbaev, a lawyer, who had earlier become a suspect in an extremism case. He believes that his comment about Akhmat Kadyrov's fate was the reason for initiated the new case.

Residents of Makhachkala should fight more actively for their rights with the help of official complaints about power outages, state activists. During a meeting with residents of the Reduktorny village, they explained the procedure for filing complaints to supervisory authorities.

Being in a penal colony, Abdul-Malik Albagachiev suffers from more and more frequent epilepsy attacks, his condition is affected by the consequences of torture to which he was subjected by law enforcers, claim relatives of the native of Ingushetia.

A court in Moscow has refused to grant the defence's request to interrogate the investigator who was in charge of the case of Oleg Orlov, a human rights defender, about discrediting the Russian Army.

A court in Vladikavkaz has found Batraz Tigiev, a blogger from Vladikavkaz, guilty in absentia of discrediting the Russian Army and fined him by 45,000 roubles. The blogger has stated that he was deprived of the right to defence, as he was not informed about the court session.

In court, the police have explained the detention of Magomed Magomedov, a deputy editor-in-chief of the "Chernovik" outlet by the concern for his safety because of a possible brawl. Idris Yusupov, a journalist, has fully confirmed Magomedov's testimony, but the court sided with the defendant and refused to recognize the police's actions as illegal.