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Said Amirov, a former Makhachkala Mayor, who uses a wheelchair, has filed several dozen lawsuits demanding to improve his custody conditions in the colony for life-sentenced prisoners.

In the rural settlement of Yandare, six armed men have forcibly put a man into a car and fled.

Mikail Ilezov, a Senator, and Magomed Malsagov, the republic's plenipotentiary envoy under the Russian President, have stated that the situation is under the control of the authorities of Ingushetia and the Vladimir Region. The position of the regional authorities was voiced out after the reaction of Adam Delimkhanov, a State Duma MP from Chechnya.

The attack in Makhachkala and other recent armed incidents in Dagestan are only indirectly related, although they stem from common premises that authorities have failed to eliminate over the years of fighting the underground – social injustice and legal problems.

The appeal of the Human Rights Commissioner (Ombudsperson) to transfer the convicted participants in the riots organized at the Makhachkala Airport to Dagestani colonies is of particular importance, since the provision of the law on serving a sentence in the region of inmate’s residence is often not enforced.

Cases of violence against children in Northern Caucasus have become more public and attract people’s attention, but their number is not decreasing, since cruelty and beating children “for educational purposes” have been considered in society as a norm.

The shootout in Derbent, the killed participant of which was declared involved in the preparation of a terror act, was preceded by the counterterrorist operation (CTO) introduced in the Makhachkala village of Semender in March this year.

In Derbent, a car driver refused to stop at a police request, ran over one of the law enforcers, and opened fire. The law enforcers shot and killed the suspect.

Human rights defenders have announced Elena Popova, a resident of the Rostov Region, sentenced to 12 years for transferring money to journalist Arkady Babchenko*, to be a political prisoner.

A criminal case against Ingush imams is related to their religious activities, including the construction of mosques and support for the “Antilirika” movement, Mukhammad Tamaskhanov states.

Three of the defendants in the case on the shootout between Chechen farmers in the Chernozubov farm yard have already left for the special military operation (SMO), and Anastasia Potorochina, a former psychiatrist of the Rostov tuberculosis hospital of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) wrote a letter asking for permission to conclude a military contract.

Activists have sent 1011 appeals to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) with the demand to take control over the investigation into the Seda Suleimanova’s case. Signatures are being collected in Russian cities under an appeal to the country’s presidential administration in connection with the Seda Suleimanova’s disappearance in Chechnya.

Vitaly Zhuravlyov, a resident of Akhtubinsk, has been charged with two episodes of repeated discrediting of the Russian Armed Forces for his comments posted on a social network.

The Ingush Imams, Mukhammad Tamaskhanov and Magomed Sultygov, were released after detention under recognizance not to leave the place. Both of them are popular among the followers of Salafi Islam.

Human rights defenders have recognized Vitaly Zhuravlyov, a resident of the Astrakhan Region, convicted under the article on repeated discrediting the Russian Army, as a political prisoner and demanded that his criminal prosecution be stopped and he be released.