Krasnodar Territory

June 03, 2021 19:09

• Kuban investigators return Tepsurkaev’s case to Chechnya

  At present, there is a chance that a wife of Salman Tepsurkaev will be granted the status of a victim due to the established practice of recognizing religious marriages in the republic.

May 29, 2021 08:34

• Relatives of Kuban resident treat the case of his participation in Basaev's raid on Dagestan as fabricated

  The advocate of Alexander Ponomarenko, accused of involvement in the attack on Dagestan with the militants of Basaev and Khattab, has stated that the charges had not been proved; however, the court has upheld the decision to arrest him.

May 26, 2021 13:16

• Rights defenders demand to resume inquiry into torture of four Anapa residents

  A Krasnodar court has upheld the termination of the criminal case on the torture of Anapa residents, Artyom Ponomarchuk, Aram Arustamyan, Karen and Erik Engoyan, detained in 2015, the Committee against Torture (CaT) has informed. Defence intends to appeal against this decision.

May 22, 2021 17:21

• Chechen Tepsurkaev's wife demands to be regarded victim in her husband's kidnapping case

  The wife of Salman Tepsurkaev, the moderator of the oppositional "1Adat" Telegram channel, has filed a complaint with the Gelendjik Court against the investigator's refusal to treat her as a victim in the case of her husband's kidnapping. According to the advocate, the law assumes the possibility of recognizing a wife with whom only a religious marriage was concluded as a suffered party.

May 22, 2021 14:57

• Sochi Circassians refuse from crowded actions on Remembrance Day of Caucasian War victims

  The number of participants in the commemoration events in Sochi on the Remembrance Day of the Caucasian War victims was small, while those present observed the required safety measures. It is not high-profile events that are important, but real help to those Circassians who have returned to their historical homeland, said Asker Sokht, the chairman of the NGO "Adyge Khase" of the Krasnodar Territory.

May 15, 2021 15:21

• Sochi Mayoralty explains shadowing pupils in social networks by teachers' initiative

  The class teachers at a Sochi school, with reference to the instruction of the city authorities, have been charged with monitoring the "suspicious" content on the pages in the social networks of their pupils starting from the 7th form, one of the teachers said. Olga Medvedeva, the head of the education and science department of the Sochi Mayoralty, said that no instructions on monitoring pupils' pages had been sent to schools.

May 14, 2021 17:24

• Instagram users find it illogical to cancel carnival in Gelendzhik

  While commenting on the ban imposed by the “Rospotrebnadzor” (Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare) on holding a traditional carnival in Gelendzhik, social media users noted that tourists from all over Russia came to the city for festivities and the cancellation of the outdoor event looked unjustified.

May 14, 2021 08:23

• Rights defenders achieve criminal prosecution of law enforcer for beating Kuban resident

  A deputy head of a ROVD (District Interior Division) of Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) is suspected of beating up a detainee. Three persons were beaten up at once; they were forced to confess to a theft, human rights defenders assert.

May 13, 2021 18:13

• Peskov rejects Putin’s connection to Kuban palace after BBC investigation

  Today, Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary for the President of Russia, has called a “fiddle” the BBC investigation concerning a palace located at Cape Idokopas in the Krasnodar Territory.

May 06, 2021 23:54

• Social media users consider fight against car tinting in Chechnya excessive

  In the Kurchaloi District, the police reprimanded 14 detained drivers for tinting their cars, the chief of the local police department reported. Part of Instagram users criticized the Chechen law enforcement bodies for persecuting drivers of tinted cars.

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