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January 30, 2024 16:29

• In Kaspiysk, managers of brick factory suspected of using slave labour

  Information about labour slavery of a Belarusian resident at a brick factory located in the Dagestani city of Kaspiysk has been confirmed, and a criminal investigation has been launched, investigators report.

January 29, 2024 22:14

• Woman from Nalchik demands to protect her grandson from bullying in family after his mother's death

  A 59-year-old resident of Nalchik, the mother of a famous female athlete, is seeking guardianship over her seven-year-old grandson after her daughter's death. Psychologists and witnesses gave written testimonies that the boy was afraid of his father and complained of beatings and sexual violence. Despite this, the court refused to hand the child over to his grandmother.

January 29, 2024 21:58

• Mobilized man from Kuban convicted of evading service

  A court in Maykop has sentenced Vladimir Litenkov, a military service man from the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban), to five years in a penal colony, finding him guilty of leaving his unit without permission.

January 29, 2024 21:47

• Pensioner from Rostov Region sentenced to colony for fakes about Russian Army

  A court has sentenced the 72-year-old Evgenia Maiboroda to 5.5 years in penal colony, finding her reposts placed in a social network as fakes about the Russian Army and calls for extremism.

January 29, 2024 19:13

• Residents of Dagestan treat Melikov's criticism of report on school problem as inappropriate

  The contractor has suspended building a school in the village of Shinaz because of the discovery of a historical burial ground. Authorities refused the contractor to extend the construction term and abandoned the contract; it follows from the information on the government procurement website and the file of arbitration cases.

January 29, 2024 17:14

• Woman from Kuban fined for discrediting Russian Army

  The Apsheronsk District Court has fined Svetlana Lukashenko, treating her posts in a social network as discrediting the Russian Army.

January 28, 2024 22:50

• Journalists point to severity decrease of labour slavery problem in Dagestan

  In recent years, in Dagestan, the problem of labour slavery has become less acute, local journalists have pointed out. The practice of labour slavery is gaining momentum in the Rostov Region, Stavropol Territory and Adygea, an activist of the "Alternativa" anti-slavery public movement has stated.

January 28, 2024 20:58

• Victims ignore court hearing in case against human rights defender Nagavkin

  In the case against Igor Nagavkin, the court refused to watch the video recording of the incident in the cell in the absence of the victims, employees of the SIZO (pre-trial prison), who did not come to the court hearing without explaining the reasons for their non-appearance.

January 28, 2024 18:20

• Defence appeals against journalist Alexander Nozdrinov's verdict

  The court has violated the right of Alexander Nozdrinov, a journalist from the Krasnodar Territory, to defence and exhibited bias; while the verdict was based on conclusions of an unprofessional expertise, the advocate has stated. Alexander's wife has complained about the ban on visiting him.

January 27, 2024 20:18

• Chechnya enters top three in terms of number of missing people

  In 2023, in Chechnya; 1608 people were reported missing. According to the indicator, the republic is second only to Moscow and the Moscow Region and is significantly ahead of other regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and Southern Federal District (SFD).

January 27, 2024 19:12

• Mother of convicted activist Polyudova receives her daughter’s first letter within six months

  Relatives of Krasnodar activist Daria Polyudova received her first letter within six months from the penal colony, in which the activist is serving her sentence in a case on extremism and justification of terrorism. Daria is still being kept in strict detention conditions, her mother reports.

January 27, 2024 17:48

• Dagestani authorities get interested in case of labour slavery

  The head of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has ordered to conduct a check after a video appeared in social networks about the release of a Belarusian resident from labour slavery near the city of Kaspiysk.

January 27, 2024 06:35

• Report of Chechnya's Muftiate on families' reunification sparks local residents' scepticism

  The data on the reunification of 6000 families, announced by the Muftiate of Chechnya, looks inflated; and the clergy's role in this process is exaggerated, local residents believe.

January 26, 2024 22:53

• State Duma adopts Kadyrov's amendments to law on extremist materials

  The Russian State Duma MPs have approved the amendments to the law on countering extremism, suggested by the Chechen Parliament at Ramzan Kadyrov's initiative. The bill, the alleged aim thereof is to protect religious literature from unjustified bans, was adopted despite the initial critical conclusion of the State Duma legal department.

January 26, 2024 21:15

• Activists link low number of signatures for presidential candidate Nadezhdin in Northern Caucasus with fear of persecution

  Law enforcers have summoned the head of Boris Nadezhdin's electoral office in Ingushetia for a conversation; the signature collectors from Dagestan and the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have stated that there was no pressure on them.

January 26, 2024 18:49

• Policemen from Chechnya forcibly sent to SMO zone, human rights defenders believe

  Employees of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) sent to the special military operation zone in a combined military detachment have hardly left for Ukraine by their own will, but their refusal could lead to persecution of them and their relatives, human rights defenders believe.

January 26, 2024 16:47

• Marina Yandieva leaves Russia after fleeing domestic violence in Ingushetia

  Marina Yandieva, a native of Ingushetia, who fled domestic violence, is safe outside Russia, human rights defenders report.

January 26, 2024 14:21

• In Krasnodar and Volgograd, supporters of presidential candidate Nadezhdin face law enforcers' opposition

  In Krasnodar, a signature collector for the presidential candidate, Boris Nadezhdin, has spent several hours in police custody. In Volgograd, a café director called the police when several activists came to his café to have lunch.

January 25, 2024 23:38

• Masked men intimidate family of "Caucasian Knot" journalist

  Unknown persons in masks, introducing themselves as "veterans", tried to break down the door to the apartment of Vyacheslav Yaschenko, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, after which they turned off electricity on the entire house floor. When they arrived, only the journalist's wife was at home; and she called the police.

January 25, 2024 22:17

• Melikov angered by critical report on federal TV channel about Dagestani school

  Sergey Melikov, the leader of Dagestan, has claimed that the report of a Dagestani journalist about a dilapidated school building in the village of Shinaz, released on the federal TV channel, is biased. The leader of the republic has emphasized that he has been monitoring the situation with the school for two years already.