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May 03, 2024 19:48

• Native of Chechnya dies after being beaten in colony for life prisoners

  Arsan Mukaev, a native of Chechnya, sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of killing law enforcers, has died in his penal colony after being beaten up.

May 03, 2024 18:58

• Court refuses to commute sentence to pensioner from Shakhty within fake case

  The Rostov Regional Court has upheld the sentence of Evgenia Maiboroda, a 72-year-old resident of the city of Shakhty, sentenced to 5.5 years in penal colony on charges of spreading fake news about the Russian Army and calls for extremism.

May 03, 2024 17:47

• Court agrees to question expert on case of human rights defender Igor Nagavkin

  The district court has granted the request lodged by Igor Nagavkin, a Volgograd human rights defender, to interrogate the author of the examination of his statements, which became the basis for the criminal case against him on disorganization of the work of the SIZO (pre-trial prison).

May 02, 2024 23:30

• Leila Gatagazheva transferred to house arrest

  A court decided to place under house arrest Leila Gatagazheva, a native of Ingushetia, accused of involvement in formations of Syrian militants. Leila Gatagazheva returned to Malgobek from a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Pyatigorsk, human rights defenders reported.

May 02, 2024 22:49

• Police succeed in seeking punishment for Krasnodar resident for posting rainbow flag

  In Krasnodar, a court reconsidered the case instituted against Viktor Morozov for his post on a social network with a photograph of a rainbow flag. Initially, the court did not find any offense in the post, but later agreed with the position voiced by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

May 02, 2024 21:56

• Case against policeman accused in Dalgatov’s death sent to prosecutor’s office

  The investigation into a case against one of the Makhachkala policemen accused of the detained Kurban Dalgatov’s death has been completed. The case materials have been transferred to the prosecutor’s office for approval of the indictment.

May 02, 2024 21:06

• Court finds Jehovah's Witness* Guschin not guilty of extremism

  A district court in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has acquitted Kirill Guschin, a Jehovah's Witness*, finding him not guilty of extremism.

May 02, 2024 18:41

• Wish for peace deleted from the official May Day greetings in Sochi

  On May 1, mass events were organized in all Sochi districts under the slogan "Spring and Labour Day", the city administration has informed. However, this time, the word "peace", which traditionally was part of the holiday slogan, was not mentioned.

May 01, 2024 23:41

• Website of “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial” project blocked in Russia

  At a request of the General Prosecutor’s Office, the “Roskomnadzor” (Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Communications) has blocked access in Russia to the website of the “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial” human rights project.

May 01, 2024 22:47

• Krasnodar blogger publicly apologizes for her words about residents of Russia

  A video has been posted on the Internet with an apology voiced by Olga Kasyanenko, a resident of Krasnodar, for speaking live about residents of Russia.

May 01, 2024 21:46

• Friend of Suleimanova, who went missing in Chechnya, questioned within murder case

  In Grozny, an investigator has interrogated Lena Patyaeva within the case of the murder of her friend Seda Suleimanova, who was taken away by her relatives from Saint Petersburg and stopped communicating.

May 01, 2024 21:06

• Analysts treat apologies of Circassian Elders' Board member for his words about Karachais as voluntary

  The apologies by Abu Banov, a member of the Board of Elders of Circassian People, for his words about Karachais were unlikely to be the result of coercion, as it happens in Chechnya, since forced apologies are not practiced in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), analysts have pointed out.

May 01, 2024 18:54

• On April 22-28, two persons killed and one wounded in armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week from April 22 to 28, 2024, two policemen were killed and another was wounded during the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot”, based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

April 30, 2024 19:49

• SMO participants ask President Putin for assistance in finding missing athlete Anna Tsomartova

  Participants of the special military operation in Ukraine recorded video messages to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to assist in the search for Anna Tsomartova, an athlete from North Ossetia, who disappeared in Kaspiysk.

April 30, 2024 19:33

• Analysts dispute about involvement of figurants in armed incidents in KChR in underground

  The armed underground is unlikely to be involved in two attacks on law enforcers committed in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), but there is a link with the terror act at the Crocus City Hall. This was stated by analysts and military experts.

April 30, 2024 18:55

• Stand-up concert spectator apologizes for his joke about Chechen women

  The spectator of the stand-up concert who said he had been "hanging out with Chechen girls" has apologized to the entire Chechen people for the thoughtless joke.

April 30, 2024 16:48

• Dagestani native Ulker Gashimova, accused of calling for terrorism, complains about pressure from investigator

  Ulker Gashimova, a native of Makhachkala, accused of calls for terrorism and extremism allegedly contained in her posts on social networks, has complained that an investigator was putting pressure on her.

April 29, 2024 23:09

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of April 22-28, 2024

  Attack on policemen in Karachaevsk, protests in Georgia, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, Inal Djabiev’s case, Circassian Flag Day, 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 22-28, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

April 29, 2024 22:33

• Social media users express their scepticism about Kadyrov’s report on success of his teenage daughter

  Twelve-year-old Ashura Kadyrova has completed training courses to join the Practical Shooting Federation, Ramzan Kadyrov boasts about his daughter’s success. The achievements and awards of Ramzan Kadyrov’s children are associated with the patronage of their father, social media users note.

April 29, 2024 21:59

• Lieutenant Colonel and Major Sergeant killed in attack on law enforcers in Mara-Ayagy

  As a result of an attack on the road-and-patrol (DPS) post located in the village of Mara-Ayagy in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), the Police Lieutenant Colonel Anton Valikov and Major Sergeant Andrei Artamonov were killed, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.