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An attempt on Adam Osmaev and his wife Amina Okueva has been committed by Arthur Denisultanov (Kurmakaev), a native of Chechnya, also known as "Dingo", several Ukrainian and Russian edition report with reference to sources.

In Paris, activists on protest in front of the Russian Embassy have handed over to Russian diplomats 120,000 signatures collected in France under the petition "To shed light on the repression of homosexuals in Chechnya."

A report about Chechen natives, fighting in the Philippines, is false, and "no Chechen militants have ever been there." This was reported by an officer of the Chechen law enforcement agencies. He has noted that the law enforcers have data about natives from Chechnya, who are fighting in Syria and Iraq on the side of Islamists.

Adam Osmaev, a native of Grozny, and his wife Amina Okueva were hospitalized to a Kiev hospital with heavy gunshot wounds, said Artyom Shevchenko, the head of the Communications Department of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

In the case of the Boris Nemtsov's murder, public prosecutors have considered the guilt of the defendants as proven and requested the jury to pronounce the verdict of guilty. Journalists how were monitoring the trial noted a number of inconsistencies in the case.

Ramzan Kadyrov has invited journalists to Chechnya after Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), requested him to organize a trip for a Finnish journalist who asked about the situation of gays in Chechnya.

In the case of the Boris Nemtsov's murder, the Moscow District Military Court has scheduled the debate of the parties for June 1. The investigation has been declared to be completed. Defendant Tamerlan Eskerkhanov was removed from the trial until the end of the debate.

The "Levada Centre" has found out that 25% of Russian citizens experience respect and sympathy for Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. According to the data published by the "Caucasian Knot", 49% of Russian citizens believe that Ramzan Kadyrov can be trusted.

At trial in the Rizvan Ibragimov's case, the court has pronounced a decision to oblige a resident of Chechnya, after whose complaint the case was instituted, to appear in the courtroom.

Sergey Lavrov, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, has said that his Ministry "does not see a single fact" of violations of the rights of LGBT community in Chechnya. Tatiana Moskalkova, Russian Human Rights Commissioner, has added that she did not receive any appeal from gays from Chechnya.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has invited the President of France to visit Chechnya in order to personally see the situation with the rights of minorities. A day earlier, simultaneously with the President Vladimir Putin's visit to Paris, the first gay refugee from Chechnya arrived in France, human rights defenders report.

In Moscow, the annual festival "Intermuseum" has ended. At the festival, four projects from Dagestan were presented, and one of them was granted an award of the Union of Russian Museums named after L.A. Alexandrova. Museums from Krasnodar and Ingushetia could not take part in the festival because of lack of funding.