Echo of Ukrainian events in Caucasus

March 27, 2023 18:13

• Woman from Krasnodar fined for discrediting militaries

  A court in Krasnodar has fined a local female resident, finding her guilty of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

March 25, 2023 18:11

• Law enforcers torture suspect accused of setting fire to Krasnodar military registration and enlistment office, his advocate reports

  Law enforcers tortured Oleg Vazhdaev with electric current and demanded from him to name the Ukrainian customers standing behind the arson of the military registration and enlistment office in Krasnodar. Oleg Vazhdaev had to incriminate himself, his advocate stated.

March 24, 2023 21:00

• Woman from Kuban accused of discrediting Russian militaries

  Law enforcers have drawn up a protocol on discrediting the Russian Army against Maria Kunchenko, a resident of Kuban (the Krasnodar Territory), who had posted leaflets with anti-mobilization calls in the village of Grigorievskaya.

March 24, 2023 18:12

• Blogger Alibekov convicted for discrediting Russian army

  In Novorossiysk, a court recognized a video posted on the YouTube channel by native of Dagestan Askhabali Alibekov to be discrediting the Russian Armed Forces and sentenced him to a year and two months of imprisonment in a penal colony. That was reported by the human rights project “OVD-Info”* with reference to advocate Marina Dubrovina.

March 24, 2023 17:14

• Participant of protests against mobilization in Makhachkala sentenced to probation

  In Makhachkala, a court sentenced Mukhamed-Afandi Asipov to a two-year suspended sentence in a case on an attack on a law enforcer during protests against mobilization.

March 21, 2023 17:30

• Court in Chegem refuses to consider case of discrediting army

  The Chegem District Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has returned the administrative protocol on discrediting the Russian Army back to the police due to identified shortcomings.

March 19, 2023 18:43

• Kadyrov's threats to Koran burners remind social media users of extrajudicial executions

  The promise announced by Ramzan Kadyrov to reward for killing or capturing the authors of the Koran-burning video has opened up wide opportunities for punishing those who had nothing to do with the filming of the video, while the mass executions of residents of Chechen during military campaigns went unpunished, social media users have pointed out.

March 19, 2023 17:04

• KBR resident suspected of discrediting militaries

  Law enforcers have drawn up a protocol on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces against Islam Mambetov, a resident of the Zolsky District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). The case has been sent to court.

March 18, 2023 16:43

• Kadyrov promises reward for execution of participants in video about burning of page from Koran

  The leader of Chechnya promised to pay 5 million roubles for the “liquidation” of participants in the video, in which a page from the Koran was used to light a fire, and 10 million roubles for their capturing alive.

March 17, 2023 15:48

• Kadyrov equates those who do not want to go to Ukraine to unbelievers

  Residents of Chechnya should be ready to participate in the special military operation in Ukraine in any military unit, and the reluctance to go there indicates a lack of faith, Ramzan Kadyrov states.

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