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The derogatory words about Chechens were a manifestation of an erroneous opinion, a tourist who had visited Chechnya said in a video, asking to forgive him for his remarks. The man was forced to apologize, commentators have suggested.

Human rights defenders and activists in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have called it illegal to bring the citizens-protesters in Nalchik on September 25-26 to administrative responsibility, and demanded to stop persecuting them.

Rubati Mitsaeva, a former associate of Akhmed Zakaev, has stated that she and her daughter received threats when in Turkey on behalf of the blogger, Khasan Khalitov, and she resorted to retaliatory threats, demanding apologies.

Galimat Okhtova from Cherkessk has treated the inaction of court marshals as the reason that two years after the verdict was passed on Mariam Karaeva, who had stolen the maternity capital from her daughter, the money has not yet been returned.

Residents of the highland village of Kharakhi in Dagestan have raised money and almost completed the construction of an 11-kilometre-long water pipeline after officials stated that they had no budget for that.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has obliged Russian authorities to pay 45,000 euros to Georgy Sveshnikov, a resident of Sochi, as compensation within the case of torturing him by law enforcers.

The Telegram channel "With Visor Open", in which the video was posted that caused the initiation of a case on discrediting the Russian Army, was hacked, the blogger, Anna Kolmagortseva, has informed. According to her story, she had promptly deleted both the video and the channel.

After almost six weeks of outage, electricity and water supplies have been reconnected to No. 4 in Krivoshlykovsky Lane in Rostov-on-Don; the house was recognized as an emergency one. After the tenants' complaints, a criminal case of negligence was initiated.

The case of Eduard Safronov, a resident of the city of Volzhsky, accused of discrediting the Russian Army, has arrived in the court.

After Roman Taganov has served his term at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) located near Maykop, the capital of Adygea, his health became worse, and he needs medical treatment, said his wife. His advocate has confirmed his client's poor health.

The Pyatigorsk City Court pronounced a new punishment for Ingush policeman Magomed Dolgiev, sentencing him a shorter suspended imprisonment. At the same time, the judge added to the verdict the motive of political hostility towards the authorities of the republic, human rights defenders report today.

Since the beginning of the special military operation, the authorities have confirmed the information about at least 800 residents of Southern Russia perished in Ukraine, including 512 residents of the North-Caucasian Federal District and 288 residents of the South Federal District.

Roman Taganov, an activist, is back at large from the SIZO (pre-trial prison) a week after the decision of the Maykop court on his conditional custody came into force.

Because of a four-day-long gas supply shutdown, Makhachkala residents had to heat water and cook food by using electricity; some townspeople were forced to purchase electrical appliances, while power supply outages were also observed in a number of city districts.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has considered the complaint lodged by Darya Polyudova, an activist from the Krasnodar Territory, about her excessively long custody and the red tape in considering her appeals against her custody extensions.

This year, statistics have recorded a sharp increase in the number of those who leave Chechnya, moving both to the CIS countries and abroad.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) recognized six natives of Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Kuban, and Chechnya, as victims of torture by law enforcers and awarded the compensations totalling 208,300 euros.

On October 25, in Pyatigorsk, a court will consider a complaint in a case against Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev brothers, convicted in Chechnya for aiding and abetting a militant. The court hearing will be the first to take place outside of Chechnya, the “NC (Northern Caucasus) SOS” Crisis Group points out.

The office of the Chechen Ombudsperson has joined in solving the problem of violation of the rights of the convicted Khalid Azmatgiriev; and this gives hope that the abuse of the inmate will stop, said the advocate of the native of Chechnya.

The case against Yulia Moiseenko, a resident of Rostov-on-Don, accused of discrediting the Russian Army, has arrived in the court. This was reported by the "Kavkaz.Realii"* project.