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April 17, 2024 23:47

• Advocate checks conditions of Orlov*’s detention at SIZO

  Oleg Orlov* has been placed in a three-person cell in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Samara, and the human rights defender does not complain about the conditions of his detention, an advocate reports. The defender suggests that Oleg Orlov* will be transferred to Syzran or Togliatti.

April 17, 2024 23:43

• Creation of Putin District strengthens cult of Russian President in Chechnya

  In the conditions of tyranny with the implantation of the cults of Kadyrov's family and Russian President, the residents of Chechnya could not speak out against the creation of the Putin District, human rights defenders have stated after the report of the Grozny Mayoralty on almost unanimous approval of the above initiative.

April 17, 2024 23:07

• Zalina Marshenkulova put on federal wanted list

  Investigators have put Zalina Marshenkulova, a journalist from Kabardino-Balkaria, on the federal wanted list. The journalist is accused in absentia of justifying terrorism in public.

April 17, 2024 19:38

• From April 8 to April 14, two persons killed in armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week from April 8 to April 14, 2024, two suspected militants were killed during the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot”, based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

April 17, 2024 19:07

• KBR native accused of treason

  The case of Vladislav Poruchikov, a native of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), accused of attempted treason and links with a terrorist organization located in the territory of Ukraine, has arrived at a Moscow court.

April 16, 2024 22:37

• Lawyers assess chances of man mobilized in Rostov Region to avoid prison

  Mobilized Dmitry Setrakov, a native of the Rostov Region, who was taken out of Armenia by Russian law enforcers, has agreed to cooperate with investigators, but this fact is unlikely to help him avoid criminal prosecution, notes an activist of the “Idite Lesom” (Get Lost!) project.

April 16, 2024 20:19

• Police report death of resident of Rostov Region at detention

  A resident of the Aparinsky Farm in the Ust-Donetsk District has died at detention by policemen who used force against him. A check is underway.

April 16, 2024 17:10

• Tourist’s photo in Kaspiysk inflames moral fighters

  A resident of Kaspiysk took a photograph of a tourist in a bathrobe resting on a balcony of a local hotel, after which moral fighters distributed the picture on social networks. The tourist said she would file a lawsuit, while social media users wrote comments criticizing moral activists for invading the tourist’s privacy.

April 16, 2024 16:56

• KBR woman is seeking punishment of law enforcer for beating her son

  The head of the police department has hit his son and then his friend because they skipped school, said the mother of the teenager living in the Zolsky District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

April 15, 2024 21:06

• Human rights defender Oleg Orlov* convoyed from Moscow

  Oleg Orlov*, found guilty of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces, has been convoyed from Moscow to another region. He is now in Samara. Oleg Orlov* notes that he was not notified of the transfer.

April 15, 2024 20:43

• Volgodonsk resident found guilty of discrediting Russian Army

  In Volgodonsk, a court found Irina Ponomaryova guilty of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

April 15, 2024 20:09

• Mother of disappeared Ossetian athlete Tsomartova asks Putin for assistance in finding her daughter

  Diana Tsomartova, a mother of Anna Tsomartova, an athlete from North Ossetia who disappeared in Kaspiysk, recorded a video message to the Russian President asking him for assistance in finding her daughter.

April 15, 2024 19:11

• Court sides with Chechen convict in dispute with colony administration

  The appellate instance has not satisfied the complaint of the colony administration against the decision of the Grozny court, which found rights violations of Arbi Dandaev, a native of Chechnya, who was convicted within the case of the attack of Basaev's militants on Dagestan.

April 15, 2024 17:54

• Pensioner from Stavropol Territory suspected of justifying terrorism

  Law enforcers have suspected Larisa Kuznetsova, a 77-year-old resident of the Stavropol Territory, of justifying terrorism in her comment placed in a social network about the murder of blogger Vladlen Tatarsky.

April 14, 2024 16:57

• Sochi activist Vladimir Atamanchuk sentenced to forced labour

  A court in Sochi has sentenced the 72-year-old Vladimir Atamanchuk to 200 hours of compulsory labour, finding him guilty of libel. Besides, he must pay 40,000 roubles in compensation to one of the victims. The activist intends to appeal against the court's ruling.

April 14, 2024 10:55

• Kadyrov explains his demand for the tempo of musical compositions

  The resolution on the tempo of musical works concerns only national Chechen melodies and has no relation to the Russian anthem, compositions of certain genres and music of other nations, the head of Chechnya has explained.

April 13, 2024 23:52

• Sochi resident fined for pacifist post in social network

  A court in Sochi has fined Mikhail Rubtsov, a local resident, by 30,000 roubles, treating his post in a social network criticizing the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine as discrediting the Russian Army.

April 13, 2024 23:13

• Health condition of Nalchik woman worsens due to clinic's refusal to provide medication

  A court in Nalchik has obliged the clinic to prescribe the necessary medication to a patient with epilepsy, but doctors refused to do so, and the girl's health condition has worsened, her mother has informed.

April 13, 2024 23:09

• Anapa resident suspected of collaborating with Ukrainian intelligence services

  The police detained a resident of Anapa suspected of collaborating with the Ukrainian intelligence services, the FSB reported.

April 13, 2024 22:34

• Suspects killed during CTO in Nalchik identified

  Two persons killed by law enforcers during a counterterrorist operation (CTO) in Nalchik have been identified as residents of Kabardino-Balkaria, investigators report.