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April 25, 2024 17:34

• Lawyers assess prospects of punishing "Kadyrov's general" Tsakaev

  General Alikhan Tsakaev should face administrative and criminal liability, but the outcomes of the check conducted by the Main Department for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has failed to fix the General's attempt to attack law enforcers, which is seen in the video.

April 24, 2024 22:24

• Stavropol resident detained for attempting to set fire to military registration and enlistment office

  A man has been detained for attempting to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office in Stavropol. Scammers took three loans in his name and promised to write off the debts after arson of the military registration and enlistment office, Vladimir Vladimirov, Governor of the Stavropol Territory, reports in his Telegram channel.

April 24, 2024 21:06

• Krasnodar woman sentenced to compulsory labour for dancing in cemetery

  Sofia Burger, a resident of Krasnodar, has been sentenced to 440 hours of compulsory labour. The Leninsky District Court has found her guilty of insulting believers' feelings by dancing in a cemetery.

April 24, 2024 20:54

• Rostov prison doctors try to convince court of victims’ unreliability

  Employees of the Rostov tuberculosis hospital of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN), who challenged the verdict in the case on torture of patients, called the testimonies of the victims unreliable, citing their illnesses, reports lawyer Rustam Khanmurzaev.

April 24, 2024 20:27

• Rights defender Igor Nagavkin released from SIZO

  Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender, whom the Volgograd Regional Court decided to release from custody, has left the territory of the SIZO (pre-trial prison) and went home to the town of Kalach-on-Don, stating that he would seek full rehabilitation.

April 24, 2024 18:21

• Analysts doubt involvement of armed underground in incident in Karachaevsk

  An attack on policemen in Karachaevsk, as a result of which two of them were killed, is not connected with the armed underground, since it has been practically eliminated in Northern Caucasus.

April 23, 2024 23:11

• Rights defender comments on court ruling to release Nagavkin

  The court ruling to release Igor Nagavkin, a Volgograd human rights defender, from custody is due to the fact that the judicial system would not admit its mistakes, Yulia Evdokimova, a lawyer and human rights defender, has explained.

April 23, 2024 21:43

• Volgograd blogger detained for insulting Russian militaries

  Pavel Prokudin, a trash streamer from Volgograd, suspected of insulting fighters at the special military operation (SMO), has been detained in an apartment in Penza registered in someone else's name. He asked for forgiveness and explained that he was drunk.

April 23, 2024 19:53

• Residents of Chechnya comment on authorities' reaction to Uspanov's death

  The Chechen society has no trust in the official version of Askhab Uspanov's suicide at the police station; this was stated by many Chechen residents.

April 23, 2024 18:25

• Krasnodar resident fined ten times within two months for his comment in messenger

  A court recognized a comment posted on Telegram by Andrei Maksimov, a resident of Krasnodar, as a call to violate the territorial integrity of Russia. The Krasnodar resident has been fined for the tenth time since March.reports.

April 23, 2024 16:23

• SMO participants demand from authorities to react to beating of schoolgirl from Dagestan

  The Prosecutor’s Office for Saint Petersburg should check the video showing a schoolgirl from Dagestan being beaten by her schoolmates, the Ombudsman of Dagestan emphasizes.

April 22, 2024 22:35

• Volgograd blogger suspected of inciting hatred towards Russian Army

  Pavel Prokudin, a blogger from Volgograd, who spoke live about participants of the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, became a suspect in a criminal case on inciting hatred and enmity.

April 22, 2024 19:54

• Details of case against Volgodonsk resident on discrediting Russian Army reported

  Irina Ponomaryova, a resident of Volgodonsk, was fined 35,000 roubles for reposting a video and writing a comment on the “Odnoklassniki” social network criticizing the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine.

April 22, 2024 18:58

• Resident of Rostov Region fined for repost

  Igor Listopadov, a resident of the city of Semikarakorsk, Rostov Region, has been fined under an article about discrediting the Russian Army in a social network. The trial took place without his participation.

April 22, 2024 18:37

• Armed incident in KChR is the first in 2.5 years

  The attack on policemen committed in the Karachay District, as a result of which two law enforcers were killed, was preceded by a counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the same district of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) on November 26, 2021.

April 22, 2024 17:44

• Kadyrov posts joint video with detained General Tsakaev

  After his harsh detention by law enforcers in Dagestan, General Alikhan Tsakaev appeared in public for the first time; a video of his participation in the meeting was posted by Ramzan Kadyrov.

April 21, 2024 19:10

• Tabarik Kadyrova awarded medal "For Services to Chechnya"

  Tabarik, Ramzan Kadyrov's nineteen-year-old daughter, has received the medal "For Services to Chechnya" for developing entrepreneurship and increasing the investment attractiveness of the republic, the Grozny Mayoralty has reported.

April 21, 2024 19:07

• Defence of raw food blogger Maxim Lyuty claims violations in the case of his child's death

  No examination was ever conducted into the death reasons of the child of Maxim Lyuty, a raw food blogger and fasting supporter. Investigators changed their decisions three times on which article to charge Lyuty with, because there were no proofs that the child died from his actions, Alexei Avanesyan, an advocate, has stated.

April 21, 2024 19:01

• Jamaat case at Dagestani colony sparks scepticism among human rights defenders

  The staff of Dagestani penal colonies is monitoring the entry into territory thereof of even such items as foodstuffs, not to mention components for making explosives.

April 20, 2024 20:38

• Prison staff would not let advocate visit Albagachiev, native of Ingushetia

  Prison staff in Dimitrovgrad did not allow Dmitry Egoshin, an advocate, to visit Abdul-Malik Albagachiev, a native of Ingushetia; a similar refusal from a colony in the Astrakhan Region is being considered in court.