Volgograd Regional Ombudsman improves custody conditions for pre-trial suspects

November 05, 2024 23:38

• Rights defenders declare Laurent Vinatier*, French researcher, who wrote about Chechnya, a political prisoner

  The human rights project "Support for political prisoners. Memorial" has pointed out the politically motivated nature of the prosecution of Laurent Vinatier*, a French researcher, and demanded his release.

November 05, 2024 23:08

• Woman from Astrakhan publicly apologizes for violating traffic rules

  The Astrakhan Regional Branch of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has posted a video in which a local woman publicly apologized for the fact that, while driving her child to the hospital, she was in a hurry and failed to give way to pedestrians.

November 05, 2024 22:16

• Colleagues of journalist Gadjiev announce stopping their weekly pickets

  After the decision pronounced by the cassation court, colleagues of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the Dagestani weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft), refused to hold weekly solo pickets. The activists explained that they decided to use other measures of support.

November 04, 2024 23:48

• Songs of Rostov musicians anger pro-government activists

  After musicians from the “Kasta” band from Rostov-on-Don presented their new album, the “Veterans of Russia” public movement found a reason to request an investigation into the musicians’ activities for their alleged assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

November 04, 2024 23:47

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of October 28-November 3, 2024

  Explosion in Cherkessk, drone attacks, Gadjiev’s case, parliamentary elections in Georgia, 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 October 28-November 3, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.