Chechen rights defender Oyub Titiev left under arrest until July 9

March 28, 2025 21:16

• Blogger Vanyan fined for hooliganism and discrediting Russian Army

  In Krasnodar, a court fined blogger Vladimir Vanyan 150,000 roubles for petty hooliganism and obscene remarks about participants of the special military operation (SMO) and FSB officers. Vladimir Vanyan admitted his guilt and apologized.

March 27, 2025 23:48

• Former Kadyrov’s critic leaves for SMO

  Said-Khusein Magomadov, a blogger, who had criticized Kadyrov, has appeared in a camouflage uniform in a video of a Chechen TV Company about sending fighters to the special military operation (SMO) zone from Grozny; the blogger has praised Chechen authorities for training fighters.

March 27, 2025 23:40

• Kadyrov boasts about number of law enforcers

  There are more than 36,000 people serving as law enforcers in Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the region, has stated.

March 27, 2025 23:11

• Defenders of activist Lyudmila Borzilo claim she receives no medical care and deprived contacts with her children

  Lyudmila Borzilo, an activist from the Rostov Region, was forcibly placed in a closed psychiatric hospital and receives no medical care there after a miscarriage, and is deprived of telephone communication with her relatives.

March 27, 2025 22:49

• Krasnodar blogger arrested after being forced to apologize

  In Krasnodar, a court sentenced blogger Vladimir Vanyan to administrative arrest, finding him guilty of failure to obey the police.