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According to the new rules, all musical and dance compositions in Chechnya must comply with a certain tempo, the republic’s Minister of Culture announces.

An appeal against the verdict to 72-year-old Yevgenia Maiboroda from Shakhty, who was sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony for her reposts on a social network, was sent to the court of appeal. The advanced age of defendants does not become an obstacle to the imposition of harsh sentences on them, human rights defenders note.

The verdict to Kevin Lik, an 18-year-old teenager from Maykop, will be challenged, says his mother Victoria. The woman notes that German diplomats were not allowed to attend the hearing at the court of appeal.

A court in Pyatigorsk has sentenced Sergey Legkobitov, an environmental activist, to 7.5 years in penal colony, finding him guilty of mediation in bribery.

A court in Volgograd has sentenced Alyona Agafonova, a blogger, to 10 months of forced labour, treating her video filmed near the "The Motherland Is Calling!" monument as desecrating the symbol of military glory.

A court in the town of Slavyansk-on-Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) has obliged Darya Rashevskaya, a local resident to pay a fine of 900,000 roubles under an administrative article on LGBT* propaganda. The court has treated the film screenshots and clips posted in Darya's social network page as such propaganda.

A court in the town of Goryachy Klyuch (Krasnodar Territory) has found Pavel Sidorenko, a Jehovah's Witness*, guilty of taking part in an extremist organization and sentenced him to three years of conditional imprisonment (probation).

In the Krasnodar Territory, warders of a penal colony sent Jehovah’s Witness* Vasily Meleshko, convicted in a case on extremism, to a punishment cell twice within a month.

Mikhail Balabanov, accused of preparing to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office in the city of Nevinnomyssk, refused to answer questions in court and plead guilty under terrorism charges.

The Ministry of Labour and Social Development of the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river) has filed a complaint with the Supreme Court (SC), asking that the demand of Ivan Panaetidi's family to receive free housing be declared unjustified.

The version of suicide at a police department of Askhab Uspanov, a native of Chechnya, after his detention for an administrative offense looks absurd, human rights defenders emphasize. They point out that Moscow law enforcers repeatedly demonstrated their bias and unlawful actions against people from Chechnya.

Law enforcers have detained and expelled from Russia Yuval Lanzman, a former Israeli Defence Force soldier, who had planned to go to Ukraine and fight against the Russian Armed Forces.

The court made a strange ruling by qualifying the appeal to the head of Chechnya by a resident of the Khabarovsk Territory, Zakhar Zaripov, as justification of terrorism, human rights defenders have stated.

Roman Melnichenko, who was fired from the Volgograd State University for his oppositional statements, has filed a complaint with the prosecutor's office against a local TV channel, which had disclosed his personal data and accused him of sabotage due to an action in memory of Alexei Navalny.

In Krasnodar, the Court of Cassation cancelled the verdict to Askhabali Alibekov, a native of Dagestan, under the article on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces and sent his case for reconsideration, although the blogger had already served his sentence.

Colleagues of human rights defender Oleg Orlov* called on to write letters to him to a SIZO (pre-trial prison) on the occasion of his birthday, but noted that uncoordinated actions of solidarity and excessive creativity could harm the convict.

The detention of Askhab Uspanov had nothing to do with the terror act at Crocus City Hall; and law enforcers treat his death at the police station as suicide, the Chechen Ombudsperson has stated.

The court of appeal changed the verdict to Kevin Lik, an 18-year-old teenager from Maykop, sentenced in a case on high treason. The court excluded the term of restriction of freedom from the verdict, leaving in force the sentence of four years of imprisonment.

In response to requests demanding to investigate the disappearance of Seda Suleimanova, a native of Chechnya, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has announced the start of a criminal investigation, the SK SOS Crisis Group* has informed.

The expert had based her conclusions about the nature of the wounds inflicted on Magomed-Ali Sultanov, 19, a resident of the Dagestani city of Kayakent, on the data of her colleague, who had left Dagestan and could not be questioned, Ilyas Saidov, an advocate, has informed.