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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) obliged the authorities of Russia to pay compensation to four activists from the Rostov Region and the Krasnodar Territory for violating their rights to a fair trial in cases on detentions at protest actions.

Andrei Rossiev, an activist, has been detained in Krasnodar after a search.

The purchase of fences intended to cordon rallies off by the North-Caucasian police has been made in view of possible actions against authorities, especially in Dagestan, where anti-mobilization protests were essential, journalists and human rights defenders have pointed out.

The decision to liquidate the "Memorials"* in Russia was made by authorities; and the courts formally approached the issue and fulfilled the political order, human rights defenders have stated after the consideration of the complaint lodged by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"*.

The conditional early relief (CER) of those convicted within the case of the death of Vladimir Tskaev after being tortured at the police will be appealed against, his widow has stated.

The information about the mass deaths of Chechen law enforcers near Lisichansk is false, states Ramzan Kadyrov. Earlier, the leader of Chechnya had to acknowledge the information about 23 fighters perished in the Kherson Region. Apti Alaudinov, an aide to the leader of Chechnya, also assures that “everything is fine” with the soldiers of the “Akhmat” special forces in Ukraine.

In a cassation appeal, lawyers of the Human Rights Centre “Memorial”* emphasized the importance of its activities, but a court in Moscow upheld the decision to liquidate the Human Rights Centre.

Social networks users have treated the court judgement on the conditional early relief (CER) of two law enforcers convicted within the case of the death of Vladimir Tskaev, a Vladikavkaz citizen, as unfair.

For more than 22 years, law enforcement bodies cannot establish who killed about 60 local residents.

Spartak Buzoev and Alan Bigaev has been released on conditional early relief (CER). This is reported by the human rights project “Axioma” on its Telegram channel.

The authorities have confirmed the information about at least 900 residents of Southern Russia perished in Ukraine since the beginning of the special military operation, including 570 natives of the North-Caucasian Federal District and 330 natives of the South Federal District.

The authorities of Chechnya have disregarded the remarks of the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) for a long time; the problems with human rights highlighted therein have been created artificially, Mansur Soltaev, the Chechen Ombudsperson, has stated.

A court in Kislovodsk has fined a local woman by 30,000 roubles, finding her post in the social network criticizing the actions of Russian President, Vladimir Putin, as discredited the Russian Army.

The five-storey house in Sochi, where three people died after a balcony collapsed, has long been in need of repairs, but tenants' appeals to authorities have yielded no results, locals assert.

Ramzan Kadyrov's involvement in the Russian-Ukrainian exchange prisoner of war (POWs) looks like an action coordinated with the Kremlin; and the head of Chechnya is using his role for self-promotion, intended not only for the Chechen audience, analysts assert.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Northern Caucasus plans to purchase 3000 mobile fences for mass events, and the initial price of the tender is 13.2 million roubles.

In Croatia, the police detained at least 15 natives of Chechnya who arrived from Russia and subjected them to violence with the demand to refuse asylum requests. This was reported on Telegram channel of the Chechen human rights association “Vayfond”, based in Sweden.

After complaints made by the head of the centre for patriotic education, who has treated the performers' works as immoral and propaganda of Western values, law enforcers in Volgograd have broke up a concert of rap singers.

Three years ago, the Russian Constitutional Court (CC) recognized the rights of the people born in families of repressed nations from different regions, including Southern Russia, the right to return home and receive housing.

The head of Chechnya has expressed satisfaction with the return of 107 Russian prisoners of war (POWs) from Ukraine to their homeland and said that new lists had been drawn up for further exchanges.