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Blogger Minkail Malizaev, who criticizes the authorities of Chechnya, reports his wife was forced to make a video appeal about a divorce because of the pressure on her in Chechnya.

Oyub Titiev, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" office in Grozny, became one of 35 applicants for the Boris Nemtsov Prize for courage in defending democratic values in Russia.

Investigations into criminal cases on attacks of nine Ingush activists on law enforcers have been launched, advocates report. According to them, some activists were beaten after their detention.

It was decided to restore seven dwelling settlements in the Galanchozh District of Chechnya that is bordering on Ingushetia, the Chechen authorities have reported. The future resettlers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" expect that authorities will help them with employment.

After the protests in Ingushetia, law enforcers visited owners of weapons, whose weapon permits had expired, reported human rights defender Magomed Mutsolgov and Malsag Uzhakhov, the head of the Council of Teips of the Ingush People. An expired weapon permit is not a reason for detention of a person if the weapon is kept at home, lawyers note.

In Magas, a court imposed a fine of 20,000 roubles on Musa Meiriev, the deputy chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of Ingushetia, for participating in an unsanctioned action.

Residents of the Khosi-Yurt village are dismantling their houses located at the family estate of Ramzan Kadyrov, since the authorities decided to expand the park in the village centre. In two weeks, people should take out all their necessary things; then, the houses will be demolished, residents of Chechnya have reported.

The TV reports about the charity actions of the Akhmat Kadyrov Fund are contrary to Islamic canons, which forbid any promotion by means of good deeds, Orientalists believe.

The spread of 3000 food packages among poor families on behalf of the Akhmat Kadyrov Fund was not such a large-scale action to tell about it on local TV, residents of Chechnya believe.

The parliament of Dagestan demanded from the Chechen Department of the "Rosreestr" (Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography) to cancel the registration of the right to a land plot as a part of the Kizlyar District.

The wife of Minkail Malizaev, an active critic of Ramzan Kadyrov's regime, living in Germany, has posted a video clip, in which she publicly renounced her husband. Residents of Chechnya suggest that the clip was recorded video was shot under pressure in order to humiliate Malizaev.

Muslim Djambekov, arrested for a fatal road accident in Moscow, is the second Chechen lately, who has apologized to the people, not to the authorities of Chechnya. Kadyrov sees a threat to his image in any negative events involving Chechens, said Ruslan Kutaev, an activist, and Alexei Malashenko, a political analyst.