South Federal District

June 11, 2025 14:06

• Pensioner convicted in Rostov-on-Don for attempting to blow up military vehicle

  In Rostov-on-Don, a military court sentenced Larisa Gavrilenko to sixteen years of imprisonment, finding her guilty of attempting to blow up a truck transporting military personnel.

June 10, 2025 18:58

• Security services report prevention of terror act in Krasnodar Territory

  A man who was planning to commit a terror act in the administrative building at one of the energy facilities has been detained in the Krasnodar Territory.

June 10, 2025 18:51

• Federal authorities allocate almost 10 billion roubles to eliminate fuel oil spill consequences

  1.4 billion roubles, in addition to earlier allocated 8.5 billion roubles, will be provided to the “Rosmorrechflot” (Russian Federal Agency for Sea and Inland Water Transport) for monitoring the pollution of the sea with oil products, inspection and sealing up of sunken tanker parts.

June 10, 2025 15:07

• Yevgeny Skidanov released from SIZO after jury verdict

  The jury acquitted Kuban resident Yevgeny Skidanov, who claimed being tortured after his detention in 2019 in a murder case. Yevgeny Skidanov was released after spending five and a half years in prison.

June 08, 2025 17:03

• Law enforcers’ report shows low efficiency of raid over Roma community in Volgograd Region

  Law enforcers' raids aimed to identify illegal migration in the Ilovlinsky District were inefficient and offensive; only five people out of hundreds of checked members of the Roma community received summonses to the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office). The raids became a way to replenish the ranks of special military operation (SMO) fighters at the expense of naturalized migrants.

June 07, 2025 16:57

• Case against Kuban pensioners-underground fighters transferred to military court

  The Uspensky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory did not pass a sentence on Nikolai Nabiev, Sergey Kuzovenko, and Marina Zakharova, accused of creating an illegal armed formation (IAF), and transferred the case to the Southern District Military Court for consideration.

June 06, 2025 18:53

• Social media users point to high cost of sacrificial animals on Eid al-Adha

  Social media users treat the prices of sacrificial animals on the Eid al-Adha (Kurban Bayram) holiday as too high; and not everyone agrees with the call of the Chechen Mufti not to sell animals’ skins. The charitable funds of the republics of Northern Caucasus have reported on the free distribution of animal meat and food packages.

June 06, 2025 17:16

• Kuban resident fined for his post about May 9 celebrations

  The court has sentenced Grigory Belik, a resident of Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), to a fine of 176,000 roubles for his critical assessment of the May 9 celebrations. The man has emphasized that he treats the Victory Day itself a holy holiday.

June 06, 2025 15:13

• Sochi residents ask court not to arrest Tatiana Polivanova

  About a dozen people whom Tatiana Polivanova helped defend their rights to land plots in litigation with officials came to support her at a court hearing on the issue of a pre-trial restriction measure, but the activist was not brought to the Sochi court. Those gathered signed an appeal in defence of Tatiana Polivanova.

June 05, 2025 18:40

• Rights defenders treat Valko’s verdict as incorrect law interpretation

  A court in Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) has explained the lenient sentence in the case of the beating up of Fyodor Valko by the fact that the defendants had no "desire to cause particular sufferings to the victim"; however, human rights defenders treat the interpretation of the law by the court as erroneous. The convicted law enforcers have appealed against the sentence, while Valko will seek to recognise their actions as torture.

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