Human rights

December 16, 2025 18:39

• Three patients at a sanatorium in Nalchik have received compensation for contracting hepatitis and HIV

  A Nalchik court partially upheld the claims of three victims in a case involving hepatitis and HIV infection at a private sanatorium. A convicted nurse is ordered to pay them 9 million rubles in compensation.

December 16, 2025 17:30

• Chechen officials chose to handle Taisumova's case secretly

  Austrian resident Indira Taisumova's appeal to Ramzan Kadyrov to help her return her daughters attracted the attention of Chechen authorities and Mansur Soltayev personally, but they only contacted the woman informally and privately.

December 16, 2025 16:32

• Human rights activists considered the prosecutor's office's response to a complaint by activists from Kabardino-Balkaria to be a formality

  The Kabardino-Balkarian prosecutor's office explained its refusal to take action, citing security forces' failure to pressure the signatories of the petition in defense of Larisa Tuptsokova. Human rights activists dismissed this response as a formality.

December 16, 2025 13:47

• Taganrog residents asked Putin for help in restoring trolleybuses

  Participants in a video message to Putin asked for help restoring trolleybus service in Taganrog. Operating the remaining trolleybuses is unsafe, and purchasing new ones requires significant financial investment, the mayor stated earlier.

December 16, 2025 09:49

• Alesker Mammadli remains in custody despite the need for treatment

  A Baku court has refused to ease the pretrial detention of Toplum TV founder Alesker Mammadli, who is in need of surgery.

December 16, 2025 05:55

• Turkish authorities have decided to deport Gultekin Hacibeyli

  Gultekin Hajibeyli, a member of the Coordination Center of the National Council of Democratic Forces of Azerbaijan, received an official decision on her deportation from Turkey for five years.

December 16, 2025 01:59

• Activists called on the Catholicos to replace the head of the Karabakh diocese

  More than 30 public figures from Nagorno-Karabakh called on Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II to consider replacing the head of the Artsakh (Karabakh) Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

December 16, 2025 01:14

• The death of a patient at a Derbent maternity hospital has led to a criminal case

  Investigators in Dagestan have found doctors to be at fault in the death of a 34-year-old Derbent resident during childbirth, despite the Ministry of Health citing a dangerous complication in her condition

December 15, 2025 22:55

• A protester in Elista was arrested on terrorism charges

  A Moscow court has arrested Eduard Baltykov, a 58-year-old businessman from Kalmykia who participated in protests in Elista. He is accused of participating in a terrorist organization.

December 15, 2025 22:14

• Security forces perceived a threat in a complaint regarding the illegal demolition of houses in Kuban

  Krasnodar Krai police issued a warning against "extremist" behavior and actions to a resident of the Anapa district, whom law enforcement officials believe is the organizer of a collective appeal to Putin.

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