Chechnya cuts working day during Ramadan

May 03, 2024 21:47

• Volgograd activist Yevgeny Kochegin* fined under law on foreign agents

  Yevgeny Kochegin*, an activist from Volgograd, has been fined for failure to mark his posts on a personal Telegram channel as a foreign agent. The above is reported by the “Dozor Volgograd” Telegram channel.

May 03, 2024 21:03

• ICRF reports detention of three suspects of insulting believers' feelings in Stavropol Territory

  Three residents of the town of Novoaleksandrovsk have been detained for publicly burning the New Testament down; they are suspected of insulting believers' feelings and hooliganism, investigators have reported.

May 03, 2024 19:48

• Native of Chechnya dies after being beaten in colony for life prisoners

  Arsan Mukaev, a native of Chechnya, sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of killing law enforcers, has died in his penal colony after being beaten up.

May 03, 2024 18:58

• Court refuses to commute sentence to pensioner from Shakhty within fake case

  The Rostov Regional Court has upheld the sentence of Evgenia Maiboroda, a 72-year-old resident of the city of Shakhty, sentenced to 5.5 years in penal colony on charges of spreading fake news about the Russian Army and calls for extremism.

May 03, 2024 17:47

• Court agrees to question expert on case of human rights defender Igor Nagavkin

  The district court has granted the request lodged by Igor Nagavkin, a Volgograd human rights defender, to interrogate the author of the examination of his statements, which became the basis for the criminal case against him on disorganization of the work of the SIZO (pre-trial prison).