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The Stavropol Territorial Court has begun considering the case against four defendants, whom investigators believe to be the organizers of the riots at the Makhachkala Airport. There are no proofs in the records from the airport that they coordinated the actions of the crowd.

The Moscow City Court had denied the defence's appeal against the extension of the arrest of the journalist, Nadezhda Kevorkova, accused of justifying terrorism.

The case of Nadezhda Kevorkova, a journalist, accused of justifying terrorism, has been returned from the Prosecutor's Office (PO) to investigators for eliminating inaccuracies in the charges. This was reported by Kaloi Akhilgov, an advocate.

The first hearing of the case of riots in Makhachkala was held in the Kochubeevsky District Court of the Stavropol Territory. Four defendants are accused of taking part in mass riots and violating the transport safety regulations.

The defence has asked to sentence Islam Atavov, a former policeman and a figurant in the death case of Kurban Dalgatov, who died at the Sovietsky ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala, to the minimum punishment; Atavov had concluded a pre-trial agreement, while the prosecution demanded eight years in jail for him.

In a case on riots at an airport in Makhachkala, one of the defendants was subjected to pressure, his advocate reported. Meanwhile, the defender was underaged at the time of his arrest.

Makhmud Djavatkhanov and Abdulbasir Atavov have confirmed in court that they were present at the Makhachkala Airport during the riots, but denied the crime charges.

The sentence of Timur Idalov, an advocate from Chechnya, in a case on threatening a public prosecutor will be challenged. Lawyers called the deprivation of the opportunity to practice law the most severe part of the Timur Idalov’s punishment, although the term of forced labour is close to the maximum stipulated by the article.

Relatives of Ramazan Rabadanov have found a doctor who can help him with the cervical vertebrae damaged during his detention.

The actions of the Dagestani natives who desecrated the Eternal Flame in Nevinnomyssk were assessed by investigators as rehabilitation of Nazism, although they should have been qualified under a more lenient article of vandalism or hooliganism.

In her complaint lodged with the chair of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), activist Tatiana Polivanova asked to check the legality of the law enforcers’ actions in connection with her criminal prosecution and the seizure of more than 11,000 plots of land in Sochi from owners.

The harsh sentence for five Dagestanis accused within the case of riots at the Makhachkala Airport will be appealed against; the defence claims absence of proofs of their guilt.

The Khimki City Court (Moscow Region) has sentenced Timur Idalov, a Chechen advocate, to one year and 11 months of forced labour within a case of threats to a prosecutor. He was also banned from practicing advocacy for three years, the human rights project "OVD-Info"* has informed.