Russia

September 27, 2023 21:42

• Gadjiev’s colleague notes special reaction of Makhachkala residents to demand to release journalist

  A solo picket held by journalist Idris Yusupov with the demand to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev provoked an active reaction from passers-by and drivers.

September 27, 2023 12:44

• Chechen propagandists start justifying Kadyrov and his son

  After Ramzan Kadyrov has posted the video, in which his son Adam beats up Nikita Zhuravel, who was arrested in the case of burning the Koran, a petition appeared on the Internet demanding to bring Ramzan and his son to justice. Network users have stressed the inadmissibility of such actions, while Chechen propagandists are trying to whitewash Kadyrov and his son.

September 25, 2023 12:45

• Kadyrov demands to rewrite chapter on nations' deportation in school textbook

  Ramzan Kadyrov has demanded to rewrite the chapter of the new school textbook on Russia's history, in which the deportation of Caucasian nations is explained by their collaboration with German fascists.

September 25, 2023 12:40

• Journalist Nozdrinov accuses law enforcers of trying to exert pressure

  Alexander Nozdrinov, a journalist, has reported in a letter to his wife that at the temporary detention facility (known as IVS), he was not allowed to see his advocate and was searched. Nozdrinov is sure that in this way they wanted to put pressure on him, since he did not admit his guilt.

September 24, 2023 19:39

• Rights defenders assess progress of Orlov's trial

  Oleg Orlov, a co-chairman of the "Memorial" Centre for Human Rights Defence, accused of discrediting the Russian Army, considered it important to add the documents of the UN General Assembly to the case files. Yan Rachinsky is confident that the prosecution's arguments are based only on a poorly conducted expertise.

September 24, 2023 19:10

• Orlov tells court about his work in Northern Caucasus

  Oleg Orlov, accused of discrediting the Russian Army, was questioned in a Moscow court. He explained that human rights defenders are not enemies of the state, but are obliged to criticize it if it violates human rights, recalling his human rights activities in Chechnya and Ingushetia.

September 23, 2023 18:15

• Chechen Zara Murtazalieva removed from list of terrorists

  Zara Murtazalieva, a native of Chechnya, who has served 8.5 years in a Mordovian colony on charges of terrorism, has been removed from the "Rosfinmonitoring" (Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service) list of terrorists and extremists.

September 22, 2023 23:15

• Rights defenders' opinions included into Oleg Orlov's case files

  At the request of Oleg Orlov's defence, the court has added his characteristics compiled by his colleagues, including those from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) and Chechnya, to the case materials.

September 22, 2023 22:10

• Volgograd court denies conscript a right to alternative civilian service

  Conscript Yegor Zorin was seeking the right to alternative civilian service in connection with his religious beliefs, but the military registration and enlistment office considered that the young man had failed to prove his beliefs.

September 20, 2023 23:15

• Nalchik resident convicted of discrediting Russian Army

  Batyr Zhaboev from Nalchik, charged under the criminal article on discrediting the Russian Army after his posts in a social network, has been sentenced to a year of conditional imprisonment.

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