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The introduction of a fee for visiting a light and music show at a new fountain in Derbent is quite justified, but the Mayoralty has raised prices too much, tourists say. The show is visited by whole families; and it turns out very expensive, residents of Dagestan believe.

The Supreme Court of Russia considered a claim filed by the “Roskomnadzor” (the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media) and decided to stop the validity of the certificate of registration issued for the electronic media outlet of the “Novaya Gazeta” website.

In Sochi, the police detained five participants of a spontaneous protest action to save dogs. Animal rights defender Viktoria Mylnikova, who tried to draw the attention of law enforcers to animal cruelty, has been charged with hooliganism.

The Supreme Court of Chechnya cancelled a court’s decision on a claim filed by the Russian Ministry of Finance, which challenged the award of compensation amounting to 400,000 roubles to Shamsold Akhyadov, a resident of Chechnya, for being wounded during the second Chechen military campaign.

Russian governors should declare self-mobilization in their regions to form detachments and send them to Ukraine, the leader of Chechnya says.

In Chechnya, the school teachers' average salaries are the lowest among Russian regions; in other regions of the North-Caucasian and the Southern Federal Districts (NCFD and SFD), it is also lower than the Russia's national average.

Fires at the waste dump in Malgobek occur, among other things, because the townspeople set fire to the garbage brought there, local residents have suggested.

The court sent for review the decision to transfer Shamil Nurmagomedov, a resident of Dagestan convicted of financing terrorism, from a colony to prison. The long stay in the cell has told negatively on his health, his advocate has stated.

The Russia's Ministry of Education has agreed to the candidacy of Akhmat Kadyrov, the 16-year-old son of the head of Chechnya, for the post of the regional chairman of the Russian movement of children and youth.

In Moscow, a court granted the demand of the Prosecutor’s Office to liquidate the “Journalists’ and Media Workers’ Trade Union”. The Prosecutor’s Office did not provide any grounds for the liquidation of the trade union, and the decision will be challenged, advocate Maxim Krupsky says.

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) called a provocation the publication of a letter to the Russian President on behalf of CPRF leader Gennady Zyuganov asking Vladimir Putin to prevent the appointment of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov as the Russian Minister of Defence.

A resident of Astrakhan was found guilty of public calls for terrorist activities and fined 360,000 roubles.

Chechnya is not standing out from other regions in terms of the number of fighters sent to Ukraine, Alexander Khramchikhin has stated. In his turn, Vasily Dandykin believes that Chechnya is the main supplier of fighters to Ukraine.

In the Volgograd Region, law enforcers have detained a local resident suspected of recruiting an Uzbek citizen into the ranks of the "Islamic State" (IS)*.

Residents of the village of Nizhnee Kazanische in the Buynaksk District have turned to Sergey Melikov, the head of Dagestan, with a request to solve the problem of the destroyed road leading to the village.

In Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), investigators have started checking large families' complaints that they had been given land plots for housing construction in a hard-to-reach place without communications.

The performers, Leonid Agutin and Klava Koka, whose concerts were scheduled on the City Day in Stavropol, are opposing the state policy, public figures have stated in their appeal to the governor of the Stavropol Territory. They called on him to cancel the singers' concert.

The Kirovsky Court of Makhachkala has reduced by 20 times the amount of compensation for the moral harm claimed by Magomed Piraev, who complained of beating and illegal placement into the dungeon (punishment cell) for 15 days at the Makhachkala SIZO (pre-trial prison). Instead of the claimed 500,000, he was awarded 25,000 roubles.

When pointing out mistakes during the special military operation in Ukraine, Ramzan Kadyrov claims to be in a more significant position, but the Kremlin has pulled him down. This opinion is voiced by the political analysts interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot”.

In Rostov-on-Don, a land plot in the “SKA” grove was again put up for sale for residential construction. Activists wrote an appeal to the presidential administration with the demand to cancel the decision of the Federal Property Management Agency.