News

April 23, 2024 23:11

• Rights defender comments on court ruling to release Nagavkin

  The court ruling to release Igor Nagavkin, a Volgograd human rights defender, from custody is due to the fact that the judicial system would not admit its mistakes, Yulia Evdokimova, a lawyer and human rights defender, has explained.

April 23, 2024 21:43

• Volgograd blogger detained for insulting Russian militaries

  Pavel Prokudin, a trash streamer from Volgograd, suspected of insulting fighters at the special military operation (SMO), has been detained in an apartment in Penza registered in someone else's name. He asked for forgiveness and explained that he was drunk.

April 23, 2024 19:53

• Residents of Chechnya comment on authorities' reaction to Uspanov's death

  The Chechen society has no trust in the official version of Askhab Uspanov's suicide at the police station; this was stated by many Chechen residents.

April 23, 2024 18:25

• Krasnodar resident fined ten times within two months for his comment in messenger

  A court recognized a comment posted on Telegram by Andrei Maksimov, a resident of Krasnodar, as a call to violate the territorial integrity of Russia. The Krasnodar resident has been fined for the tenth time since March.reports.

April 23, 2024 16:23

• SMO participants demand from authorities to react to beating of schoolgirl from Dagestan

  The Prosecutor’s Office for Saint Petersburg should check the video showing a schoolgirl from Dagestan being beaten by her schoolmates, the Ombudsman of Dagestan emphasizes.

April 22, 2024 22:36

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of April 15-21, 2024

  Chechen agenda, protests in Georgia, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, Armenia gives up villages and recognizes the Yazidi genocide, and official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of April 15-21, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

April 22, 2024 22:35

• Volgograd blogger suspected of inciting hatred towards Russian Army

  Pavel Prokudin, a blogger from Volgograd, who spoke live about participants of the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, became a suspect in a criminal case on inciting hatred and enmity.

April 22, 2024 19:54

• Details of case against Volgodonsk resident on discrediting Russian Army reported

  Irina Ponomaryova, a resident of Volgodonsk, was fined 35,000 roubles for reposting a video and writing a comment on the “Odnoklassniki” social network criticizing the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine.

April 22, 2024 18:58

• Resident of Rostov Region fined for repost

  Igor Listopadov, a resident of the city of Semikarakorsk, Rostov Region, has been fined under an article about discrediting the Russian Army in a social network. The trial took place without his participation.

April 22, 2024 18:37

• Armed incident in KChR is the first in 2.5 years

  The attack on policemen committed in the Karachay District, as a result of which two law enforcers were killed, was preceded by a counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the same district of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) on November 26, 2021.

April 22, 2024 17:44

• Kadyrov posts joint video with detained General Tsakaev

  After his harsh detention by law enforcers in Dagestan, General Alikhan Tsakaev appeared in public for the first time; a video of his participation in the meeting was posted by Ramzan Kadyrov.

April 21, 2024 19:10

• Tabarik Kadyrova awarded medal "For Services to Chechnya"

  Tabarik, Ramzan Kadyrov's nineteen-year-old daughter, has received the medal "For Services to Chechnya" for developing entrepreneurship and increasing the investment attractiveness of the republic, the Grozny Mayoralty has reported.

April 21, 2024 19:07

• Defence of raw food blogger Maxim Lyuty claims violations in the case of his child's death

  No examination was ever conducted into the death reasons of the child of Maxim Lyuty, a raw food blogger and fasting supporter. Investigators changed their decisions three times on which article to charge Lyuty with, because there were no proofs that the child died from his actions, Alexei Avanesyan, an advocate, has stated.

April 21, 2024 19:01

• Jamaat case at Dagestani colony sparks scepticism among human rights defenders

  The staff of Dagestani penal colonies is monitoring the entry into territory thereof of even such items as foodstuffs, not to mention components for making explosives.

April 20, 2024 20:38

• Prison staff would not let advocate visit Albagachiev, native of Ingushetia

  Prison staff in Dimitrovgrad did not allow Dmitry Egoshin, an advocate, to visit Abdul-Malik Albagachiev, a native of Ingushetia; a similar refusal from a colony in the Astrakhan Region is being considered in court.

April 20, 2024 19:38

• Medical commission creates obstacles to Zarema Musaeva’ release

  Medical officers have diagnosed Zarema Musaeva with a milder form of the disease, which excludes the possibility of release from the colony settlement for health reasons, an advocate reports.

April 20, 2024 16:47

• Prosecutor’s Office proposes to release human rights defender Nagavkin from punishment

  Volgograd human rights defender Igor Nagavkin should have his sentence commuted in the theft case and released from further punishment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations, the Prosecutor’s Office states.

April 19, 2024 23:44

• Rostov supporter of "Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami"* sentenced to seven years of strict custody regime

  The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has announced the verdict passed to Khaidarali Ashurov, accused of attempting to organize terrorist activities for studying the ideology of the "Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami"*.

April 19, 2024 22:56

• Lawyers treat law enforcers' actions during detention of Kadyrov's General Tsakaev as lawful

  The traffic police inspectors had the right to stop the car and detain the driver, including by using force, if his behaviour threatens road users and inspectors themselves. This was stated by lawyers after the harsh detention of Chechen General Alikhan Tsakaev in Dagestan.

April 19, 2024 22:22

• Kuban resident convicted in treason case

  The court has sentenced Daniil Zinkovsky, a resident of the Leningradskaya village, to seven years of freedom deprivation, finding him guilty of attempting to defect to the Ukrainian side and join one of the armed formations there.