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Election voting. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot"
23:57, 16 March 2024
Observers in Krasnodar report serious pressure
In Krasnodar, election observers have faced pressure exerted on them via their families or employers; therefore they were forced to reduce their presence time at polling stations.
Portrait of Putin hang near the ballot box in the Nekhaevskaya village. Screenshot of the photo posted on Galina Bratashova's page on the VKontakte on March 15, 2024 https://vk.com/id414606567?z=photo414606567_457239111%2Fphoto_feed414606567
23:16, 16 March 2024
Obstacles to observers and violations of campaigning rules fixed in Southern Federal District
In the Krasnodar Territory, election observers complained of violations during mobile voting and obstacles with their work at polling stations. In the Volgograd Region, portraits of the incumbent president hang at five polling stations.
The Code of Administrative Offences of Russia, photo: Yelena Sineok, Yuga.ru
21:15, 16 March 2024
In Kabardino-Balkaria, court refuses to cancel fine imposed on Tamerlan Ivanov for pacifist inscription on his backpack
Tamerlan Ivanov, a resident of Nalchik, who was found guilty of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces with a pacifist inscription on his backpack, challenged the fine, but the Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria has refused to cancel the punishment.
18:49, 16 March 2024
In Rostov Region, Telegram channel administrator fined for discrediting Russian Army
In the Rostov Region, a court sentenced Vladislav Kovalyov to a fine, recognizing posts on his Telegram channel as discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.
A rally in memory of Alexei Navalny. Screenshot of a video https://ru.euronews.com/2024/02/16/nalany-death-people-reax
17:17, 16 March 2024
Makhachkala resident claims being beaten by police and arrested after action in memory of Navalny
After the detention, law enforcers beat Makhachkala resident Mukhammed Djambulatov, who laid flowers at a spontaneous memorial to Alexei Navalny, and forced him to refuse a medical examination, which resulted in his arrest for 11 days.
A polling station in Volgograd. Photo https://volgograd-trv.ru
23:42, 15 March 2024
Volgograd activists call presidential election a democracy game
The local offices of presidential candidates actually did not work; and the candidates themselves, who visited Volgograd, conducted extremely careful campaigning, without criticizing authorities and without raising sensitive topics, a journalist has noted, also telling about obstacles when visiting polling stations.
Oleg Orlov. Photo: https://memohrc.org/ru/monitorings/oleg-orlov-v-sovete-pri-prezidente-sidyat-te-samye-inostrannye-agenty-kotoryh included into the register of foreign agents
23:13, 15 March 2024
Rights defender Oleg Orlov* received offer to go to Ukraine
The 70-year-old human rights defender Oleg Orlov*, sentenced to freedom deprivation for his pacifist position, has received an offer at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where he is kept, to take part in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine.
A meeting of the leader of North Ossetia with the teenagers who recorded the video and their parents. Screenshot of the video posted on the Instagram page "chp_beslan" (the activities of the Meta Company, owning Instagram, are banned in Russia)
22:47, 15 March 2024
Leader of North Ossetia prevents public outcry after teenagers’ jokes about SMO
The authorities of North Ossetia publicly reprimanded parents of the teenagers, who recorded a comic video about the special military operation (SMO), in order to defuse the situation and prevent attacks by SMO supporters on their children or on the parents themselves, bloggers believe.
Law enforcers, photo: Yelena Sineok, Yuga.ru
19:17, 15 March 2024
In Stavropol Territory, law enforcers come to search apartments of Nadezhdin’s supporters
Officers of the Centre to Combat Extremism (CCE, also known as Centre “E”) in the Stavropol Territory have been conducting searches for several days now at the apartments of the activists who were collecting signatures in support of the nomination of Boris Nadezhdin as a presidential candidate.
Banner on a house in the village of Kabardinka. Screenshot of a video by the "Caucasian Knot" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxTAf-fwcZ4&t=44s
17:47, 15 March 2024
Lawsuits to declare housing illegal become tool of political pressure in Gelendzhik
Residents of the village of Kabardinka Anna Gubanova and Anna Charochidi request investigators to check the actions of the local officials who are trying to recognize their houses as illegal buildings. The women and their families are at risk of being left on the streets after participating in the elections.
15:55, 15 March 2024
Pyatigorsk resident detained for post in support of Navalny
Policemen have been holding Roman Mirkin, a Pyatigorsk resident, for the second day, accusing him of displaying prohibited symbols in his personal correspondence on the Telegram. Mirkin had also placed posts in support of Alexei Navalny in social networks, human rights defenders have informed.
23:35, 14 March 2024
SIZO bosses ignore seven-day hunger strike of human rights defender Nagavkin
The prosecutor's office and the court were notified by his sister about the hunger strike of human rights defender Igor Nagavkin, who has been rejecting food at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the city of Leninsk for a week already, although the law obliges SIZO bosses to report about detainees' refusal to take meals.
Arsen Abdulkadirov. Screenshot https://chernovik.net/news/vas-zakroyut-v-ivs-maksimum-na-dva-dnya-potom-otpustyat
22:56, 14 March 2024
Dagestan: court rules to arrest a law enforcer within torture case
Arsen Abdulkadirov, a former deputy head of the criminal investigation division of the Sovietsky ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala, has been arrested until April 21 within the case of torture and causing death by negligence, the Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala has informed.
Zarema Musaeva at a court. Screenshot of the photo posted on the Telegram channel "Bakar Yangulbaev"
22:45, 14 March 2024
Advocate demands medical examination of Zarema Musaeva
Zarema Musaeva was never given a medical examination after the request to release her lodged in December 2023 due to her serious health condition, his advocate has stated. The defence has demanded to explain why Musaeva was not examined.
The monument to those who perished during the Great Patriotic War (WW II) in the town of Prokhladny. Screenshot of a video by the "Caucasian Knot" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSq_so6nKnE&t=62s
17:10, 14 March 2024
Police establish persons in photo without trousers at monument to motherland defenders in Prokhladny
The teens have been identified, who, by lowering their trousers, made photos at the monument to those who perished during the Great Patriotic War (WW II) in the town of Prokhladny.
Oleg Orlov. Photo: https://memorialcenter.orgmemorialcenter.org included into the register of foreign agents
16:12, 14 March 2024
Rights defenders declare Oleg Orlov* as prisoner of conscience
The human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) has declared Oleg Orlov*, who was sentenced to a colony term on charges of discrediting the Russian Army, as a prisoner of conscience and demanded his release.
Detention. Photo: Yelena Sineok, Yuga.ru
23:37, 13 March 2024
Law enforcer detained in case on Dalgatov’s death, sources report
One more law enforcer has been detained in a criminal case on the death of Kurban Dalgatov at the Makhachkala police department, sources report.
18:59, 13 March 2024
Heroines of video with kiss fined in Krasnodar
Two residents of Krasnodar were fined 50,000 roubles each because of a video in which they were kissing in a cafe.
Vladimir Atamanchuk. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent
18:46, 13 March 2024
Sochi activist Atamanchuk complains about falsification of court records
The defence requested the protocols of court hearings in the case against Vladimir Atamanchuk, a 72-year-old activist from Sochi, since the protocol, which the defence had already managed to get for examination, contained words with an accusatory slant that were not voiced during the court hearing.
A law enofrcer. Photo: Yelena Sineok, Yuga.ru
17:37, 13 March 2024
Accused within robbery case in Anapa claims physical pressure
At the trial of workers of a wholesale and retail base in Anapa, accused of robbery, Alexei Sveshnikov has testified. He was treated as the suffered party; then he was accused of complicity in committing the above crime. Sveshnikov has stated that earlier, under law enforcers' pressure, he wrote a confession.
News
Sevinj Vagifgyzy. Photo: Meydan.tv https://www.meydan.tv Sevinj Vagifgyzy was awarded the Anna Politkovskaya – Arman Solden International Journalism Prize.

The court has accepted the case against Azerbaijani opposition leader Taghiyev.

Prisoners returned from Azerbaijan are being housed in Yerevan hospitals.

LEGAL TEXTS
The illustration was created by the Caucasian Knot using AI The peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as other documents signed at the meeting with Trump on August 8, 2025

The “Caucasian Knot" publishes the agreement on the establishment of peace and interstate relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which was initialed by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on August 8, 2025, through the mediation of US President Donald Trump. The meeting of Trump, Aliyev and Pashinyan took place on August 8 in Washington. Following the meeting, Pashinyan and Aliyev also signed a joint declaration. In addition to the agreements between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Trump signed a number of separate memoranda with Aliyev and Pashinyan....

Personalities
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili. Photo courtesy of press service of HRC 'Memorial', http://memohrc.org/ Zelimkhan Khangoshvili

A participant of the second Chechen military campaign, one of the field commanders close to Shamil Basaev and Aslan Maskhadov. Shot dead in Berlin in 2019.

Magomed Daudov. Photo: screenshot of the video http://video.agaclip.com/w=atDtPvLYH9o Magomed Daudov

Magomed "Lord" Daudov is a former Chechen militant who was awarded the title of "Hero of Russia", the chairman of the Chechen parliament under Ramzan Kadyrov.

Tumso Abdurakhmanov. Screenshot from video posted by Abu-Saddam Shishani [LIVE] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIR3s7AB0Uw Tumso Abdurakhmanov

Tumso Abdurakhmanov is a blogger from Chechnya. After a conflict with Ramzan Kadyrov's relative, he left the republic and went first to Georgia, and then to Poland, where he is trying to get political asylum.