Krasnodar Territory

July 23, 2021 17:50

• Defence challenges Pivovarov’s arrest

  Cooperation with an undesirable organization, in which Andrei Pivovarov is accused, is a crime of moderate gravity, and the evidence of guilt was presented with violations, advocates claim in a complaint about the arrest of a politician who is being kept at a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Krasnodar.

July 09, 2021 17:28

• EU urges Russian authorities to close case against advocate Benyash

  In its appeal to the Russian authorities, the European Union claims that the criminal prosecution of Krasnodar advocate Mikhail Benyash violated his right to unhindered protection of people. Intervention by the European Union may convince judges to hold court hearings in the case open for journalists, the advocate himself suggests.

July 08, 2021 23:12

• Human rights defenders call on UN to support Andrei Pivovarov

  The United Nations should influence the Russian authorities to secure the release of Andrei Pivovarov, who was arrested in Kuban on the charge of collaborating with an undesirable organization, international human rights organizations state.

July 08, 2021 14:28

• Residents of flooded Kuban areas complain about scanty compensations

  The compensations promised by authorities for the loss of property will fail to cover even a small part of the inflicted damage, the local residents interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" assert.

July 02, 2021 23:23

• Owner of Anapa hotel explains her conflict with guests by homophobia

  In Anapa, young women left a hotel after its owner raised a stink in response to their complaints about a dirty room. The woman explained her act by the behaviour of the guests, whom she suspected of non-traditional sexual orientation.

July 01, 2021 16:42

• Prosecutor's Office supports rights defenders in torture case of Krasnodar resident

  The Prosecutor's Office has found unjustified the investigators' refusal to initiate a case on the beating Evgeny Lastin, a detained resident of Krasnodar. Investigators had seven times rejected Lastin's claims to initiate a case; now, all these decisions have been cancelled, the head of the Committee against Torture (CaT) has informed.

June 26, 2021 14:43

• Tougher restrictions at Kuban resorts triggers tourist outflow

  After the introduction of new requirements for checking in hotels, sanatoriums and boarding houses of the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river), tourists have cancelled about 30 percent of reservations for July and more than 70 percent for August, the Association of Russian Tour Operators has informed.

June 26, 2021 08:18

• Three North-Caucasian republics close vaccination rating

  Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria and North Ossetia have taken the last places in the vaccinating rating against coronavirus by regions of Russia published on June 25. In these republics, less than 5% of the population has been vaccinated.

June 23, 2021 19:12

• Family members of victims of Tu-154 plane crash near Sochi appeal to ECtHR

  A complaint has been filed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on behalf of 70 relatives of those killed in a plane crash near Sochi. The affected people consider the closure of the criminal case and the refusal to pay compensation unreasonable, a plaintiffs’ lawyer reports today.

June 23, 2021 08:46

• Chechen investigators refuse treating Salman Tepsurkaev's wife as victim

  Elizaveta, Salman Tepsurkaev's wife, has received the third refusal to recognize her as a victim. The decision of Chechen investigators will be appealed against in court, said Leisan Mannapova, a lawyer with the Committee against Torture (CaT).

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