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The Jews of Makhachkala have felt no obvious threats; the attack on the synagogue came as a complete surprise to them, said Valery Dibiyaev, the chairman of the Centralized Religious Organization of Jewish Communities of Dagestan.

Three months after the initiation of the case on Seda Suleimanova's murder, investigators have failed to make any conclusions; the process is deliberately being sabotaged, the petition created by Lena Patyaeva, a Seda's friend, has stated.

The militants' attacks in Dagestan were law enforcers' failure, who could not pay due attention to preventive work, veterans of special services have pointed out, adding that attackers' actions were similar to the tactics of militants of the "Islamic State" (IS)*.

During the militants’ attack, 20 people were killed and 46 others were injured, the Dagestani Ministry for Public Health reported.

Shooting during a militant attack in Makhachkala frightened people, and it became difficult to move around the city because of the cordons arranged by law enforcers, local residents said.

Ayats (verses) of the Koran, references to which were left by attackers at a synagogue in Derbent, are interpreted by the extremists to justify their confrontation with Jews and Christians, Leonid Syukiyainen and Dmitry Mikulsky point out. The experts suggest that the date of the attack on the Orthodox temple was chosen by the militants because of the Christian holiday celebrated on that day.

After the start of the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, Russian law enforcers are more actively initiating criminal cases of treason; and appellate courts are upholding the verdicts, lawyers have commented on the verdict passed to Vladislav Poruchikov, a student from Taganrog.

The Court of Appeal in Sochi has upheld the sentence of activist Vladimir Atamanchuk, who was found guilty of libel and sentenced to 200 hours of compulsory labour.

All the chances to achieve punishment for Tagir Velagaev, a pensioner of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), for assassinating his ex-wife Umazhat Guseinova have been exhausted, the advocate of the suffered party has stated. Those accused of committing murders often refer to a state of passion in order to get the verdicts mitigated, human rights defenders have noted.

An article, under which Alyona Agafonova, a blogger from Samara, was sentenced to correctional labour for desecrating the monument “The Motherland is Calling!”, provides no clear definitions, and there is no official list of symbols of the Russia’s military glory, human rights defenders pointed out.

An appeal filed by Zalina Marshenkulova, a journalist from Kabardino-Balkaria, against her arrest in absentia in a case on justifying terrorism has been received by the Moscow City Court.

The court of cassation in Pyatigorsk upheld the verdict against the Ingush activists. About 20 people came to the Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia to support the defendants.

The court ruling to release Leila Gatagazheva under recognizance not to leave the place has given hope that the criminal prosecution on charges of links with militants in Syria would be dropped, her advocates have stated.

The verdict to Vladimir Yarotsky, a resident of Krasnodar, who was fined by 350,000 roubles within the case of calls for terrorism, was a very lenient punishment under this article, lawyers have noted.

Soslan Dzidakhanov, who was subjected to bullying by a law enforcer, has claimed one million roubles from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) as compensation for moral harm, but the court in North Ossetia reduced this amount to 200,000 roubles.