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Today, the “Rosfinmonitoring” (the Russian Federal Service for Financial Monitoring) has included the “Navalny’s Offices” in the list of legal entities involved in terrorism and extremist activities.

The Prosecutor’s Office for the Tsuntinsky District ordered to close the dilapidated school building in the Dagestani village of Khutrakh and transfer schoolchildren to temporary lessons in the buildings of the obstetric station and kindergarten.

The Magas District Court recognized Isa Khamkhoev, the former head of the Spiritual Centre of Muslims of Ingushetia, as a violator of the procedure of organizing and holding a meeting and imposed another fine of 10,000 roubles on him, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* reports today.

On April 29, the Centre for Conflict Analysis and Prevention presented the report "North-Caucasian Muslims in Russian Jails: Human Rights, Adaptation Strategies, Risks of Radicalization and Post-Liberation Reintegration" in the online mode.

On April 29, activists of the oppositional movement "Moyo Pravo" (My Right) blocked the traffic in Freedom Square, demanding a report on the loans granted to officials, but none of the government officials came out to them. The protests will continue, the protesters have announced.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has reacted to the defence's complaint about the deteriorating health of the arrested diplomat Eldar Gasanov and sent a request to the Azerbaijani authorities about his health condition, his advocate has informed.

Shamil Nurmagomedov, a native of Dagestan, who is serving his term for financing terrorism in a colony in the Smolensk Region, has been transferred from an isolation cell with strict custody conditions to a cell-type premise for five months. The reason for the punishment was the publicity of the data about the inmates' protest hunger strike, Nurmagomedov's father has informed.

For Elena Barzukaeva, applications about her son's torture have turned into lawsuits against her lodged by law enforcers. Investigators refused to investigate her applications, and she had no other way to help her son but to voice out the names of those who could have been involved in the torture in media and at pickets, Barzukaeva herself stated it in court.

With his open support of the opposition, Said Mamedzade has irritated officials, Tezekhan Miralamli, a human rights defender, has commented on the sentence passed to the athlete.

Marina Romanova was taken to intensive care unit after being beaten in the city of Gelendjik. She links the attack on her with her taking part in actions in support of the opposition leader, Alexei Navalny.

Today, members of the ARF “Dashnaktsutyun” have held a protest in front of the building of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Armenia. The activists demand to stop persecution of Nikol Pashinyan’s opponents detained in Syunik region and those who expressed their support for them.

Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev, moderators of a Telegram chat, who are under arrest in Chechnya, will receive state protection in connection with the threat of “honour killings.” The state has recognized the reality of the threat to the arrested brothers’ lives, advocate Alexander Nemov emphasizes.

Authors of the study “Old Age in Russia” mentioned Chechnya among the six regions with the most acute problems among the elderly people. In terms of the number of the elderly people with incomes below the minimum subsistence level, Chechnya is ahead of Kabardino-Balkaria.

After the Ramzan Kadyrov’s statement that the unemployment rate in the region has almost halved since late 2020, Instagram users point out there is no real decline in the unemployment rate in Chechnya.

The FSB of Russia reported about the detention in nine Russian cities, including Krasnodar and Anapa, of 16 supporters of the “M.K.U.” extremist community, who were plotting massacres and terror acts. The detainees were receiving instructions from the leader of the grouping, Yegor Krasnov, a citizen of Ukraine, reported the video posted by law enforcers.

The Azerbaijani authorities must provide the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) with all the information about the Armenian prisoners of war (POWs) captured in Nagorno-Karabakh and expedite their return to their homeland, the European Union (EU) has stated.

A group of enthusiasts has announced fundraising for the creation of the first hiking trail in the regions Northern Caucasus from the Caspian to the Black Sea. The tourist trail will help the economic development of the Caucasus, the authors of the project believe.

The four "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard) servicemen, interrogated on April 28 as victims in the case of the leaders of the Ingush protest, told the court that they had no claims against the defendants, and found it difficult to explain why they had treated them as guilty of organizing a rally in Magas, the advocates has informed.

The car driver shot dead by law enforcers in Nazran was not a militant, a law enforcement source has stated. Instagram users demand proofs that law enforcers had reasons to use firearms.

A message from a Shali woman, who complained that doctors of the local hospital are incompetent and claim money even for services that are supposed to be provided for free, was posted on the Instagram. Users sympathize with the woman and share their own negative impressions of visiting Chechen medical institutions.