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The case of the murder of brothers-shepherds Nabi and Gasangusein Gasanguseinov is being falsified, so that those guilty could escape punishment, the casualties' relatives and their advocates have stated at today's press conference in Makhachkala.

Results of the forensic examination, which showed the presence of genetic traces of shepherd brothers killed in the Dagestani village of Goor-Khindakh on submachine guns, were formulated with gross procedural violations and were kept in secret from defence for a long time, reported advocates of the Gasanguseinov family. 

Today, Kazbek Bachaev and Ruslan Taimyskhanov have been found guilty of sending money to the militants of the "Islamic State" (IS) and the "Imarat Kavkaz", both recognized as terrorist organizations and banned in Russia by the court, at war in Syria and sentenced to nine and eight years of imprisonment, the Court reports.

The chief of the Investigating Department has cancelled a decision to refuse to institute a criminal case, made after an investigation into a complaint filed by rights defender Oyub Titiev about the drugs planted on him by law enforcers. This has been reported today by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

On March 14, the Chief Department for the Rostov Region of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) announced the institution of a criminal case under Article "A knowingly false report on a terror act" against a 22-year-old man detained in Rostov-on-Don.

Today, a source of the "Kommersant" close to investigators has reported that since 2014, the FSB had been wiretapping phone calls of members of the Dagestani government, including Abdusamad Gamidov.

On March 14, Khedy Ibrieva, an advocate of Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev, could not visit her client, kept in the SIZO-1 of Karabulak.

On March 13, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reported detention in Dagestan and Moscow of nine persons suspected of extorting money and threatening the head of one of Dagestani mass media and his relatives, and of attacking the journalist.

In 2017, most regions of the NCFD, with the exception of Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria, registered an increase in the number of victims to the armed conflict, especially among the civilian population. In Chechnya and Ingushetia, the number of victims among law enforcers also increased. This is especially noticeable against amid the general trend towards a decrease in the number of wounded and killed people, as indicated by the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" over the past eight years. The alarming statistics concerning the victims to the armed conflict in 2017 calls into question the effectiveness of an exclusively forceful fight against terrorism.

The advocates and relatives of Muslimat Kurbanova, who returned home from Syria, intend to appeal against the verdict awarded to her, considering it too harsh. The court could have passed a more lenient sentence, if it had followed the new, not old, wording of the article, which provides for a softer punishment, an advocate for Muslimat Kurbanova told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The today's visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Dagestan was accompanied by reinforced security measures: in the morning, the central square of Makhachkala was cordoned off by policemen and special service agents; a large number of armoured vehicles were parked nearby; and snipers were deployed on roofs of houses.

Today, Murtazali Gasanguseinov, a father of the murdered shepherds, has succeeded in meeting Denis Popov, Prosecutor of Dagestan. At the meeting with the chair of the Dagestani Prosecutor's Office, Murtazali Gasanguseinov was accompanied by rights defender Djambulat Gasanov, a representative of the Gasanguseinov family.