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Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, who is actively involved in training volunteers to be sent to Ukraine, has become the only representative of the regions of Southern Russia in the presidium of the presidential council for the development of local self-government.

Lieutenant Aslan Agaragimov has perished in Ukraine; the Order of Courage was handed over to his family, the administration of the city of Dagestanskie Ogni has informed. Since the start of the military operation in Ukraine, the deaths of at least 195 natives of Dagestan have been officially confirmed.

Tourists have come to rest and have the right to dress as they please, some social network users have noted in their comments to the appeal of the Imam of the village of Gunib to the guests of Dagestan urging them to wear closed clothes and observe the moral and ethical standards adopted in Dagestan. In their turn, other users have objected asserting that local Muslims and authorities should be more active in demanding from tourists to comply with the dress code.

The charges against Djafar Mirzoev, an activist, detained in Azerbaijan within a drug case after his return from Germany on readmission, is based only on the words of the policemen who had detained him, Nemat Kerimli, an advocate, asserts.

The case of residents of Ingushetia, two of whom are accused of plotting terror acts in Sunzha, and two of aiding terrorists, has been brought to court.

The stay of Russian tourists in Georgia should be cut down to one month and oblige them to confirm while crossing the border that they recognize the territorial integrity of Georgia, Levan Khabeishvili, one of the leaders of the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party, has stated.

The court has imposed a fine of a thousand roubles on Yuri Trubachov, a Category I disabled person, who for several hours blocked the road to the landfill in the Poltavskaya rural settlement with a demand to close the dump.

Magomed Atimagomedov has stated that he had planned to escape, as the employees of the Kalmyk colony threatened him with charges under a terrorist article, but he was not involved in the murder of the warden, and signed his testimonies under pressure. This was reported by Azu Alieva, his advocate.

Daud Kuramagomedov was severely beaten up and is in a depressed psychological state; however, medical care was rendered to him only 10 minutes before the visit of his advocate, Snezhana Muntyan has informed.

The President of South Ossetia dismissed Vladimir Pukhaev, the country’s Minister of Defence, in connection with the beating of Azamat Djigkaev, a resident of Tskhinvali, by special forces fighters, states a decree posted on the website of the leader of the republic.

Agil Gumbatov, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment, declared a hunger strike. Today, his spouse has held a protest action in front of the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in Baku with the demand to reconsider the case of her husband and release him.

Natives of Dagestan, who refused to participate in the special military operation and returned to their homeland, are being sent to a guardhouse and threatened with a tribunal, the “Vyorstka” (Layout) publication reports today in the article “We understood that we were treated as cannon fodder and that we have nothing to do on a foreign land”.

The Special Investigation Service should verify information about threats received by Soso Gogashvili, the former deputy chief of the State Security Service, from a top-ranking law enforcer, Georgian Ombudsperson Nino Lomdjariya states.

After his deportation from Germany, oppositionist Pyunkhan Kerimli, sentenced in Azerbaijan to six years of imprisonment, filed an appeal against the verdict in a case on drug possession, a father of the activist has reported.

The methodology according to which the "Rosleskhoz" (Russian Federal Forestry Agency) placed Chechnya among the regions with the least efficient forestry management, was compiled "incompetently," Ramzan Kadyrov has stated, suggesting that the head of the agency heads the Ministry of Natural Resources of Chechnya and improves the indicators.

A total of 303 residents of Armenia are listed as missing after the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, the republican delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has informed.

Soso Gogashvili, a former deputy head of the Georgian State Security Service (SSS), who is in custody on charges of illegal possession of weapons, abuse of power and violation of the secrecy of personal data, has received threats demanding to give the necessary testimonies, his advocates have informed.

Murad Manapov, an activist, has left for Poland, fearing persecution by law enforcers. He explained that he had left Russia after the arrest of Eduard Ataev, the coordinator of Navalny's office* in Makhachkala, whose assistant he has been earlier.

The head of Chechnya has instructed officials and policemen to stop cases of inappropriate behaviour of "individual Chechen nationals outside the region." Ramzan Kadyrov's order appeared after reports in social networks about Chechen girls' dancing during a seaside holiday in Izberbash.

The proofs of the guilt of the three policemen accused of violence against Alexander Knyazev and Valery Levdik are the victims' traumas, as well as the fact that the policemen did not challenge their dismissal after an internal audit, the advocate has stated.