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Advocates intend to appeal against the decision of the court, which sentenced defendants in the case on the Boris Nemtsov's murder to long terms of imprisonment. Till present, representatives of the victim party and public prosecutors have not yet decided on the plans concerning the verdict.

Areg Kyuregyan, a defendant in the case on capture of a police regiment building in Yerevan, was transferred to a punishment cell for 10 days after a razor blade was found by him. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by advocate Musheg Shushanyan.

In the case on the politician Boris Nemtsov's murder, the court has found all the defendants guilty.

In Makhachkala, about 15 Muslims were detained after a night prayer at "Tangyim" mosque. This was reported by Imam Nigmatulla Radjabov. According to one of the believers, some detainees were released after questioning.

In the course of the inquiry into the case of Alexander Lapshin, a blogger, accused of illegally crossing the border in connection with his visits to Nagorno-Karabakh and calls against the Azerbaijan's territorial integrity, no reliable evidence of his guilt was presented, said his advocate Eduard Chernin.

The Embassy of the Russian Federation to Abkhazia recommends Russian tourists to show increased caution in the context of the deterioration of the criminal situation in the republic. Semyon Grigoriev, the Russian Ambassador to Abkhazia, has noted that Russia is ready to take "additional measures," should the republic's authorities fail to ensure tourists' safety.

The advocates of the defendants in Boris Nemtsov's murder case has called on the judge to pronounce the verdict in accordance with his internal convictions and conscience, and to find the defendants innocent, or at least pass a softer sentence than requested by the prosecutor. The suffered party has stated Khamzat Bakhaev's innocence.

The administration of the penal colony, where Boris Stomakhin, sentenced for public justification of terrorism, is serving his sentence, does not allow independent psychologists visiting him. This was reported by advocate Roman Kachanov.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan has dismissed an appeal filed against the verdict to Rufat Safarov, a former investigator of the Prosecutor's Office, who was sentenced to 9 years of imprisonment in the case of a repeated bribe receipt.

Ilya Pyanzin, a citizen of Kazakhstan, who since 2013 is serving his sentence in a penal colony in the Samara Region for plotting an assassination attempt on Vladimir Putin, has addressed the Russian President with an appeal to pardon him.