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n the Kaitag District of Dagestan, law enforcers have detained a man, who is believed to have taken part in the attack of Basaev’s and Khattab's militants on Dagestan in 1999.

In their video appeal addressed to Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), participants in the special military operation (SMO) from the town of Krymsk reported that they had received threats from an entrepreneur, whom they had earlier complained about his suspicions land frauds.

A criminal case has been sent to court against two colony inmates kept in Zabaikalsky Krai (Territory), who are accused of justifying the terror act committed in Beslan; one of them is a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

Public prosecutors consider Khasin Kabardaev, a resident of the Adyge-Khablsky District, to be an organizer of an extremist cell, and five more local residents will appear in court as its members.

Nine persons, including eight teenagers, suspected of preparing attacks on policemen, have been taken into custody in the Stavropol Territory. Some of them have told how they had sworn an oath to a terrorist organization without understanding the meaning of the words.

A criminal case about a street brawl in Makhachkala, in which at least 50 people took part, is being investigated under the hooliganism article. According to sources, the mass brawl was preceded by a two teenagers’ conflict.

After receiving a request for the extradition of Mansur Movlaev, the authorities of Kazakhstan should conduct an investigation, and in the case of a request for asylum, give a response. If Mansur Movlaev is extradited from Kazakhstan to Russia, then, in accordance with the law, he will be delivered to Chechnya, which is of interest to the authorities of the republic.

There were numerous violations in the case of Vadim Kharchenko*, a convicted blogger from the city of Gelendjik, his parents have claimed in their appeal to President Putin; and a complaint was also filed against the verdict. Three more criminal cases have been opened against Kharchenko*.

In Northern Caucasus, law enforcers use the article on non-reporting about an intended crime to intimidate relatives and acquaintances of suspected militants, although the legal application thereof is possible only under certain conditions, while one’s close relatives are protected by the constitutional right not to report a crime.

The case of five residents of Ingushetia, who had failed to inform law enforcers about their acquaintances who had sworn allegiance to a terrorist organization, has been sent to court.

An armed attack was committed in Ardon, where an unidentified person shelled people at a car wash station and fled. One person was killed on the spot, and two others were wounded. One of them stays in severe condition.

A court in the Stavropol Territory has sentenced four residents of Dagestan to 10 years in colony each, treating them as rioters at the Makhachkala Airport. The number of people convicted within the "airport case" has reached 105.

Investigators suspect Yuri Lysenko, the head of the Novocherkassk administration, of receiving a large-amount bribe from a developer. Yuri Lysenko has been caught red-handed, a source in the law enforcement bodies claims.

In Cherkessk, a court has sentenced Alexei Safonov, the former chief of the Stavropol Territory GIBDD (road police), who became well-known for his mansion with a “golden toilet,” to 20 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony in a case on multi-million-rouble bribes for cargo transportation in violation of the rules and regulations.