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Law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia cannot efficiently investigate the March attack on rights defenders, because of the Chechen trace in the case, said Igor Kalyapin, a rights defender, at a meeting of HRC members with Yunus-Bek Evkurov.

The growing number of migrants from Chechnya, who apply for the refugee status in Germany, has to do with the policies pursued by the Chechen leadership of suppressing the dissent, believes Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, the Director of the Project for Russia and Northern Caucasus of the International Crisis Group (ICG).

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to appoint Police Major General Sergey Bachurin the head of the Chief Department for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). The decree was published on the website of legal information.

Based on the judgement of the Leninsky District Court of Grozny, the "Roskomnadzor" (Federal Service for Supervising Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Media) has put the page, containing the article "Islam", of the Internet-based encyclopaedia Lurkmore, into the register of banned websites, said Dmitri Khomak, the project founder.

Andrei Babushkin, Igor Kalyapin and Maxim Shevchenko have reported about the final decision of the members of the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC) not to go to Chechnya within a series of outreach meetings in Northern Caucasus.

The Gudermes City Court has satisfied the lawsuit of Magomed Kantaev against the "Rosmorrechflot" (Russian Federal Agency for Marine and River Fleet) and invalidated the contest for the post of Director General of the Makhachkala Commercial Seaport (MCS), because of the fact that Kantaev had not been admitted to the contest.

The head of Chechnya has refused to meet the delegation of the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC) on June 2, if Igor Kalyapin is present there. Mikhail Fedotov, the head of the delegation, has confirmed his intention to visit Chechnya today.

Repairs have started in the apartment house in Grozny damaged by fire at night on May 31. According to the Mayoralty, 10 apartments were seriously damaged; they were poured with water when fire extinguishing. One of the tenants of the house has confirmed that people had refused to go to temporary accommodation facilities and prefer to live with relatives.

On May 31, Ramazan Djalaldinov, a resident of the village of Kenkhi, Sharoi District of Chechnya, who had in April appealed to Russian President with a complaint about the situation in the village of Kenkhi, returned back home with the family.

In the mountainous Vedeno District of Chechnya, federal servicemen opened automatic fire at a group of local residents, mistakenly taking them for militants. One person was seriously wounded, said a source from the district administration.

Ramazan Djalaldinov, who raised the problem of corruption in the Chechen village of Kenkhi, was forced to apologize to Ramzan Kadyrov. This opinion was voiced by rights defender Oleg Orlov and Mikhail Roschin, the researcher of the Caucasus.

The authors of the petition for cancellation of the decision to rename a bridge in Saint Petersburg after Akhmat Kadyrov, the first Chechen President, are going to send it to deputies of the Saint Petersburg Legislative Assembly, the Governor, and the City Toponymy Commission.