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Mikhail Muzraev. Photo: the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation

14:37, 3 June 2025

SC mitigates sentence for General Muzraev

The cassation court has reduced the sentence for Mikhail Muzraev, convicted in the case on the arson of the house of the Volgograd Region Governor, from 20 years to 18.5 years of imprisonment. The sentence of the second defendant has been left unchanged.

Young people near the symbol of military glory in the village of Grushevskoye. December 2023. Photo: SCR ICS in SK

14:32, 3 June 2025

Four residents of Stavropol Territory sentenced for dancing lezginka near “Eternal Flame” monument

In the Stavropol Territory, a court sentenced four young men accused of desecrating a symbol of military glory in the village of Grushevskoye.

Detention of Otari Kobakhidze. Collage by Caucasian Knot. Still images from the video of the Abkhazian SSS.

00:00, 3 June 2025

Russian citizen expelled from Abkhazia due to video clip

During his visit to Sukhum, Otari Kobakhidze, a Russian citizen, filmed a video clip, in which he stated that he had returned to his homeland after 33 years. This caused a negative reaction in the Abkhaz society, after which special services detained the man and escorted him out of the country.

Participants of the video appeal of Anapa townspeople. Frame video from the Telegram channel "Anapa Civil" from 01.06.25, https://t.me/anapa_grazhdan/9670

16:43, 2 June 2025

Anapa townspeople demand to speed up fuel oil pumping out from sunken tanker parts

Authorities are delaying the liquidation of the environmental disaster without addressing the root cause thereof, Anapa residents have stated in their video appeal addressed to federal authorities, demanding to speed up the pumping out of oil products and lifting the sunken parts of the tankers.

Explosion near a residential building: the illustration was created by the "Caucasian Knot" by using the AI in the Copilot software.

16:39, 2 June 2025

Advocates state difficulties of obtaining compensation for explosion damage in Stavropol

If the incident is officially recognized as a terror act, compensation for the cars damaged in the explosion in Stavropol, in which Zaur Gurtsiev was killed, is available only to CASCO insurance owners.

Dokku Djantemirov. Screenshot of photo https://www.1tv.ru/news/2004-04-29/245610-zavershenie_gromkogo_sudebnogo_protsessa_v_rostove_na_donu

14:13, 2 June 2025

Life-sentenced Djantemirov asks to be transferred to penal colony in Chechnya

Dokku Djantemirov, who serves his life sentence in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, has asked to be transferred to a penal colony in the territory of Chechnya, where his relatives live.

Akhmat-Yurt. Screenshot of photo https://kurchaloevskij-r95.gosweb.gosuslugi.ru/o-munitsipalnom-obrazovanii/istoriya/.

14:05, 2 June 2025

Social media users concerned about reform of local government in Chechnya

As part of the reform of local government in Chechnya, 17 municipal districts will be created, and the urban districts of Grozny and Argun will also be preserved, the Chechen Ministry of Finance reports. Social media users suggest that the reform will result in job cuts and difficulties for citizens in obtaining official documents.

Participants in the procession in Nalchik. A still frame from the video by https://t.me/zapravakbr/3361.

14:00, 2 June 2025

Participant of march in Nalchik sees no sense in filing appeal against his arrest

Kazbek Mamikov, a participant in the march in Nalchik held to mark the end of the Caucasian War, who served his administrative arrest, has decided not to appeal against the court’s decision, while two other participants in the march have succeeded in their appeals to reduce their arrest terms. There were no arrests in Maikop, but two activists had to write explanatory notes.

Irakli Kobakhidze. Photo: https://www.newsgeorgia.ge

17:36, 1 June 2025

Kobakhidze announces four coup attempts

While congratulating Georgian policemen on their professional holiday, Irakli Kobakhidze, the country’s Premier, has stated that within the last four years, law enforcers have prevented four attempts to encroach on Georgia’s sovereignty and a coup d'etat.

The atmosphere on one of Anapa's beaches on May 31. Screenshot of photo from Telegram channel "Makovozovs", https://t.me/makovozovy/37782.

17:31, 1 June 2025

Due to fuel oil spill, Anapa loses about half of its tourists

Amid the huge spill of fuel oil (mazut) in the Black Sea, the hotel occupancy rate in the Russian city of Anapa has decreased by 50% compared to the same last year’s period. Some hotels are in dire straits because they cannot return money to tourists for cancelled bookings, said a source from the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR).

17:28, 1 June 2025

Baku court extends arrest of human rights defender Safarov

The arrest of Rufat Safarov, an Azeri human rights defender, accused of fraud, has been extended for other 20 days.

Nikol Pashinyan. Screenshot of News.Am photo from 30.05.25, https://news.am/rus/news/885486.html.

17:24, 1 June 2025

Pashinyan's statements about AAHC result in demand for apologies

The insults to the Armenian Apostolic Holy Church (AAHC) and interference into its activities by the Prime Minister of Armenia are unacceptable, politicians and churchmen have stated, demanding an apology. The "Ayakve" Initiative has demanded that a criminal case be opened against Nikol Pashinyan.

Memorial plaque in memory of repression victims on the building of the former NKVD department in Taganrog. Photo: https://www.ruffnews.ru/

18:21, 31 May 2025

In Taganrog, replacement of memorial plaque continues trend of hushing up repressions

A memorial plaque to the memory of victims of repressions has been removed from the building of the former NKVD department in Taganrog on the bottom-level initiative. Such actions are a continuation of the trend of hushing up repressions and glorifying Stalin, historians and political analysts point out.

Igor Nagavkin. Photo provided to Caucasian Knot by Igor Nagavkin.

18:17, 31 May 2025

Nagavkin accuses penal colony’s deputy head of insulting him

Human rights defender Igor Nagavkin has filed an appeal to the supervisory authorities with a request to assess the insults he was subjected to by the deputy head of the penal colony-settlement.

Sochi Jewish Community Center. Screenshot of the image in the Yandex.Panorama service

18:13, 31 May 2025

Synagogue in Sochi attacked

In Sochi, a man with a hammer tried to enter the synagogue building and threw stones at it. The attacker has been detained.

Sergei Melikov. Photo from the Telegram channel of the Administration of the Head of Dagestan https://t.me/agiprd/25271

18:11, 31 May 2025

Activists comment on Melikov’s statement about “Gunib” sanatorium

Taking into account his statement about the “Gunib” sanatorium, Sergey Melikov, the leader of Dagestan, has not touched on the topic of the urban development in Gunib, which has been going on for more than one year. The accusations of activists from the “Gorod Nash” (The City is Ours) movement in disseminating enemy information are groundless.

A frame of video with censure of drivers in the Gudermes district of Chechnya. Screenshot of the video https://www.instagram.com/p/DKJ8kS1sCPd/*.

18:08, 30 May 2025

Reprimands of drivers highlight selective enforcement of laws in Chechnya

Law enforcers publicly reprimanded teenage drivers from the Gudermes District of Chechnya for violating traffic rules. Social media users have recalled that Adam Kadyrov, a son of the leader of Chechnya, drives a car, although he is also under 18.

18:05, 30 May 2025

Defence points out signs of falsification in Mziya Amaglobeli’s case

An advocate of journalist Mziya Amaglobeli has filed an appeal against her administrative arrest in the case on insulting a police officer. The defence has submitted to the court an expert analysis of the video recording, indicating signs of falsification of evidence by the police.

The book "Artsakh: Blockade and Forced Displacement in Human Stories". Photo by Alvard Grigoryan for Caucasian Knot.

18:02, 30 May 2025

Book about refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh presented in Yerevan

More than a hundred stories of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh are collected in the book entitled “Artsakh: Blockade and Forced Displacement in Human Stories”. The facts presented in the book should become evidence in international courts, journalists claim.

Nika Meliya: photo https://vesti.az/v-mire/v-gruzii-zaderzali-odnogo-iz-liderov-oppozicii-niku-meliyu-547250

14:09, 30 May 2025

Advocate and Georgian MIA argue about circumstances of Nika Meliya’s detention

Nika Meliya, the leader of the oppositional “Coalition for Change”, was detained administratively for insulting a policeman, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported. In his turn, Mr Meliya’s advocate asserts that his client’s detention has to do with the intention to ensure his presence at the trial on failure to comply with the demands of the parliamentary temporary investigating commission.

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