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The transfer of Igor Stenin, the leader of the movement "Russians of Astrakhan", who is serving his sentence in the Tambov Region, from the colony-settlement to the general-regime colony has no grounds and should be abolished, his defence has stated in the complaint against the court judgement.

500 servicemen of the joint detachment of military have left Chechnya for Syria, a source from the republic's power agencies told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Ramazan Djalaldinov, a resident of the Chechen village of Kenkhi, who criticized the authorities, asks Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), in his appeal to check several officials of the of Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in Chechnya.

The today's session of the court in Chechnya, which considers the complaint against the verdict to Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, started with a petition to disqualify the presiding judge, whom the advocate Alaudi Musaev accused of lying.

Moscow has hosted a closed press conference on the problem of persecution of Chechen residents, who make public facts of corruption in the republic. Rights defenders presented the story of Ramazan Djalaldinov from the village of Kenkhi as an example, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The North-Caucasian Military Court has questioned three defence witnesses in the case of an attempt to create caliphate in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). An aunt of Akhmed Balkarov said that at the police station she heard cries of her nephew after his arrest.

The Centre to Counter Extremism (CCE) of Ingushetia has become a punitive body, Magomed Khazbiev, a member of the public movement "Mekhk-Kkhel", believes. It is necessary to completely change the CCE staff, said Akhmed Bashir Aushev, one of the former laders of the movement, whose son suffered from the actions of Ingush power agents.

Abdusalam Ramazanov, accused of an attempt to join Syrian militants, refuses to plead guilty and states he had been tortured by power agents, said his advocate Elena Denisenko. The trial of Ramazanov was rescheduled for December 20, because he was not brought to the court for the first session.

Today, during the pleadings of the parties at a court hearing in the case against Alexandra Ivanova (Varvara Karaulova), public prosecutor has asked the court to sentence the defendant to five years of imprisonment and a fine of 150,000 roubles.

In Chechnya, during the court session, which considered the complaint against the verdict to Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, his defence tried three times to challenge the panel of judges, arguing that they are interested in convicting the defendant. The court rejected all the challenges and postponed the session until December 9.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has explained the detention of Timur Khamkhoev, the chief of the Centre for Combating Extremism of the Ingush MIA, by the investigation into a criminal case of robbery of a local resident.

Christopher Smith, the Chairman of the Helsinki Commission of the US Congress, has urged the Azerbaijani authorities to cancel the recent amendments, which introduced stricter penalties for insulting and slandering the country's president on the Internet, as well as the release political prisoners.

All the sacrificial sheep that arrived in Adygea from Chechnya, have been distributed, said the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of the Republic of Adygea and Krasnodar Territory, stressing that the Muftiate (the other name of the SAM) has all the information on who had received the animals.

In Chechnya, the today's court hearing on the appeal filed against the sentence to Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, has been started with the examination of the investigators' resolution on refusal to initiate a criminal case at the complaint filed by the journalist about use of violence against him.