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14:42, 16 August 2021
Deaths of nine patients in a Vladikavkaz hospital because of oxygen problems; flooding after downpours in Kuban; shelling attacks in the area of the Karabakh conflict and at the border of Armenia with Azerbaijan; tightening of COVID restrictions in Georgia; oil spill in the sea near Novorossiysk; arrest of officials from the government of North Ossetia in a case on embezzlement, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 9-15, 2021, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.
11:32, 16 August 2021
As a result of a shootout in Western Moscow, Gasan Abdullaev, a 28-year-old native of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, was shot dead, sources reported. The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has reported a start of inquiry.
10:59, 16 August 2021
The detention and arrest of Andrei Pivovarov, accused of collaborating with an undesirable organization, contradicts the democracy principles, activists have claimed at the solo pickets held in Volgograd.
12:06, 15 August 2021
The advocate of Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev did not believe the words of Chechen law enforcers that his clients had been transferred to quarantine, and filed a complaint about the refusal to let him meet his clients. The brothers are in danger, the "Russian LGBT Network"* believes.
12:03, 15 August 2021
The whereabouts of Agil Gumbatov, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), is unknown, his wife said. She and the activist's party comrades have doubted the investigators' version that he had wounded a man, and linked his detention with his criticism of the authorities.
11:59, 15 August 2021
Colleagues of the journalist, Abdulmumin Gadjiev, have no hope of a fair verdict and fear the closure of the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly after the trial, the "Novaya Gazeta" has found out. Residents of Dagestan are afraid to go out to actions in defence of Gadjiev, but his support in social networks is growing, his wife has stated.
13:51, 14 August 2021
Eleven residents of the village of Anzorei in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), whom investigators treated as members of the extremist community, have pleaded guilty in the case of the so-called "Sharia patrols".
23:55, 13 August 2021
Alizamin Salaev, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), convicted on the charge of defamation, has succeeded in seeking his transfer to a medical unit in the penal colony. The defence filed a complaint about the court’s refusal in conditional early relief for the oppositionist.
21:07, 13 August 2021
In Rostov-on-Don, the Southern District Military Court found Murad Abdullagadjiev, a resident of Dagestan, guilty of swearing allegiance to the leader of a terrorist organization and participating in its activities. The defendant pleaded guilty, the press service for the Southern District Military Court reported.
21:03, 13 August 2021
The Supreme Court of Chechnya cancelled the decision to extend the arrest of advocate Sergey Marakov not because it considered the strict pre-trial restriction measure unreasonable, but because of formal violations, lawyers suggest. A wife and a 93-year-old mother of the defendant claimed they had not seen him since his detention.
12:53, 13 August 2021
At the court session on the case of Timur Tumgoev, a native of North Ossetia, accused of attacking an employee of a colony in the Saratov Region, prosecution witnesses are testifying.
12:40, 13 August 2021
For the tenth time, investigators have refused to initiate a criminal case against the law enforcers who had tortured three residents of Derbent, but the head of the Dagestani branch of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has assured that he would supervise the check, relatives of the Derbent residents have informed.
23:46, 12 August 2021
After a refusal to file a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), a person convicted in a case on an attack on Nalchik does not even want to talk to human rights defenders by phone, a lawyer of the Human Rights Centre (HRC)“Memorial”* reports. Another complainant died in a penal colony, while the third complainant was transferred to a penal colony with tougher regime of detention.
19:25, 12 August 2021
Members of the “Ashamed” movement were not victims of attacks during the disruption of the gay pride parade in Tbilisi, and their office was not damaged, the Georgian Prosecutor’s Office declares. The Institute for the Study of Democracy criticizes investigators for the fact that none of the organizers of the riots has yet been detained.
15:15, 12 August 2021
Militants of the Russian "Wagner" Private Military Company (PMC) are involved in the massacres of civilians during hostilities in Libya, the BBC Russian Service has suggested after publishing information about the participation of a native of Northern Caucasus in PMC's operations. During the above hostilities, up to 1000 "Wagner" PMC fighters were in Libya, former mercenaries have informed.