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Alina Alekseitseva. Collage by the "Caucasian Knot". Screenshot of the video posted on May 4, 2024, on the Telegram channel of the human rights project "Caucasus without Mother"
23:52, 4 June 2024
Second wife of Chechen resident accuses him of beating
Alina Alekseitseva, the wife of a Chechen resident, has complained to human rights defenders that he was beating her and their children. Earlier, the man's other wife, Maria Smelaya, made similar complaints.
Rinat Kiramov. Collage by the "Caucasian Knot". Photo: https://memopzk.org/figurant/kiramov-rinat-ildusovich/ included into the register of foreign agents
21:57, 4 June 2024
Jehovah's Witness* from Akhtubinsk complains of torture in custody
Rinat Kiramov, a Jehovah's Witness* from Akhtubinsk, who is serving his sentence for extremism, has complained that his cellmates had tortured him for several days, demanding that he slander other believers.
21:09, 4 June 2024
Attempt to pass medical examination after being wounded turns into detention for Volgograd resident
Employees of the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) have detained Alexei Gaun, a Volgograd resident, for unauthorized abandonment of his military unit, when he tried to undergo a medical examination after being seriously wounded in the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine.
A pre-trial prison. Photo: https://f-atlas.ru/catalog/object/sizo3novorossiysk/
18:52, 4 June 2024
Lawyer points to protracting infection case of Kuban prisoner
The consideration of the lawsuit lodged by Yuri Mikhailov, who was HIV infected while being kept at the Novorossiysk SIZO (pre-trial prison) and the colonies of Kabardino-Balkaria and Kalmykia, was again postponed due to the fact that SIZO bosses failed to provide the documents requested by the court.
18:09, 4 June 2024
Case of pensioner from Gelendjik about discrediting Russian Army comes to court
The pensioner is accused under the criminal article on discrediting Russian militaries.
23:49, 3 June 2024
Nikah becomes cover up for early marriages in Northern Caucasus
An author of the study “Forcibly Married” indicated that when she and her colleagues were preparing the study they had to operate only with the information on early marriages released by the “Rosstat” (Federal State Statistics Service), although in many cases, only a religious marriage is being concluded.
Participants in a march under the slogan "Freedom to prisoners of the regime". Tbilisi, June 2, 2024. Photo: Interpressnews https://www.interpressnews.ge/ru/article/160707-v-tbilisi-prokhodit-shestvie-pod-lozungom-svobodu-plennikam-rezhima
22:57, 3 June 2024
Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of May 27-June 2, 2024
Georgian parliament overcomes presidential veto, flooding in the Lori Province, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, news from Ingushetia, 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 May 27-June 2, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.
Soldiers, photo by Yelena Sineok, Yuga.ru
22:44, 3 June 2024
Rostov Region resident claims her sick husband forcibly sent to SMO zone
Alexei Motorny from the Rostov Region was detained and forcibly sent to the special military operation zone, despite a heart attack he suffered, claimed his spouse Svetlana. The woman is seeking her husband’s return home.
Marina Melikhova. Screenshot of a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfX7E6Lt4Zo
21:47, 3 June 2024
Activist Marina Melikhova released from SIZO
Activist Marina Melikhova, who was sentenced for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces, was released from a SIZO (pre-trial prison) on June 1, the “OVD-Info”* reports.
Themis statue. Photo: Maxim Tishin / Yugopolis
18:08, 3 June 2024
Rights defenders report that fathers from Northern Caucasus ignore court rulings in children-related disputes
Even if the court rules to leave a child with the mother, fathers from North-Caucasian regions often kidnap their children and take them to their homeland, from where it is then difficult to return them, human rights defenders have in their comments on the story of Maria Smelaya, a Krasnodar resident.
17:55, 3 June 2024
Volgograd journalist fined for his posts in social network
A court in Volgograd has fined Stanislav Terentiev, a former editor-in-chief of the "Kolokol" (Bell) newspaper, finding him guilty of publicly displaying Nazi symbols. Stanislav refused to plead guilty and appealed against the court ruling.
The Code of Administrative Offences of Russia. Photo by Yelena Sineok, Yuga.ru
23:38, 2 June 2024
Post in social network turns into fine imposed on Kizlyar resident
A court in Kizlyar (a city in Dagestan) has fined Saadula Zakaryaev, a local resident, for violating the rules of organizing a rally after he had posted an invitation in a social network for his subscribers to take part in filming a video about cars.
21:38, 2 June 2024
KBR resident complains about criminal case fabrication
The expertise, on the basis of which the court found Salikh Osmanov, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), guilty of attempted sabotage, was conducted with gross violations, the complaint lodged against Osmanov's verdict asserts. He has accused law enforcers of fabricating the case against him.
Marina Melikhova. Screenshot of a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfX7E6Lt4Zo
18:51, 2 June 2024
Defence demands to release activist Marina Melikhova from SIZO
Marina Melikhova, an activist from Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), remains at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), although her prison term has expired, her advocate has stated demanding from the SIZO to release Marina.
23:55, 1 June 2024
Three residents of Krasnodar Territory fined for discrediting Russian Army
Oksana Voronina from Tikhoretsk and Yulia Vaganova from Sochi have been fined for their comments in social networks, which were treated by the court as discrediting the Russian Army. Yuri Boretsky, a Sochi resident, was ordered to pay a fine for his statements made during a conversation with his colleagues.
Girls in wedding dresses. Photo https://mtdata.ru/u20/photo02AB/20433138874-0/original.jpg
23:53, 1 June 2024
Researchers discuss early and forced marriages in Northern Caucasus
The problem of early and forced marriages in Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia is still there, although there are no reliable statistics on this issue. The problem is rarely brought into the public sphere amid girls' confidence in their own defencelessness, absence of working laws and gender discrimination characteristic of the patriarchal structure inherent in these republics.
22:43, 1 June 2024
Resident of Rostov Region found guilty of treason
A court in Voronezh has sentenced Alexander Shevchenko, a resident of the Rostov Region, to 24 years and four months of freedom deprivation. He tried to enter the territory of Ukraine aiming to tae part in hostilities against Russian troops there, the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) has informed.
Maria Smelaya. Photo from her personal page on the "Odnoklassniki" social network https://ok.ru/
20:42, 1 June 2024
Maria Smelaya, who escaped from her Chechen husband, complains about death threats to her relatives
Maria Smelaya, a resident of Krasnodar, explains that her decision to refuse to make public an attack on a shelter was caused by her fears for the relatives’ lives because of the threats voiced by her former husband. The woman has decided to file a complaint to the police in connection with the kidnapping of her son.
Advocate Ilyas Saidov and Ilmiyamin Sultanov, the father of the murdered young man. Screenshot of the video posted on the Telegram channel "Mash Gor" https://t.me/s/mash_gor/3164
18:01, 1 June 2024
Forensic expert reports to court unnoticed wound on body of murdered 19-year-old man
A criminal case on the murder of Magomed-Ali Sultanov, a 19-year-old resident of Kayakent, should be sent for additional investigation after a forensic expert admitted that an earlier forensic report did not describe all the wounds on the young man’s body. The above has been reported by a family’s lawyer.
Bogdan Abdurakhmanov (right) and Boris Goncharenko. Photo: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=362891449914551&set=a.113632768173755 the activities of the Meta Company, owning Facebook, are banned in Russia
17:52, 1 June 2024
Lawyers assess prospects of Abdurakhmanov’s case after his recantation of testimony
The testimony that Bogdan Abdurakhmanov, accused of setting fire to a military registration and enlistment office, declared falsified, was the base for the charges of terrorism, pointed out Felix Wertegel, an advocate of Boris Goncharenko. In similar cases, courts usually adhere to an accusatory bias, noted lawyer Dmitry Zair-Bek.
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Authorities reported no fuel oil emissions in Anapa.

Special military operation in Ukraine. Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense press service More than 8,600 fighters from southern Russia have been officially recognized as killed in the SVO zone.

Yuri Napso. Photo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AhGZKoCzUo Investigators have dropped the rape case against Napso.

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.