High-ranking official of disbanded Ministry for Press was killed in Chechnya

May 02, 2024 21:06

• Court finds Jehovah's Witness* Guschin not guilty of extremism

  A district court in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has acquitted Kirill Guschin, a Jehovah's Witness*, finding him not guilty of extremism.

May 02, 2024 18:41

• Wish for peace deleted from the official May Day greetings in Sochi

  On May 1, mass events were organized in all Sochi districts under the slogan "Spring and Labour Day", the city administration has informed. However, this time, the word "peace", which traditionally was part of the holiday slogan, was not mentioned.

May 01, 2024 23:41

• Website of “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial” project blocked in Russia

  At a request of the General Prosecutor’s Office, the “Roskomnadzor” (Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Communications) has blocked access in Russia to the website of the “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial” human rights project.

May 01, 2024 22:47

• Krasnodar blogger publicly apologizes for her words about residents of Russia

  A video has been posted on the Internet with an apology voiced by Olga Kasyanenko, a resident of Krasnodar, for speaking live about residents of Russia.

May 01, 2024 21:46

• Friend of Suleimanova, who went missing in Chechnya, questioned within murder case

  In Grozny, an investigator has interrogated Lena Patyaeva within the case of the murder of her friend Seda Suleimanova, who was taken away by her relatives from Saint Petersburg and stopped communicating.