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January 27, 2023 12:55

• Social media users express their indignation about public reprimand of schoolgirls in Chechnya

  A video, in which law enforcers were reprimanding six schoolgirls and their parents in the Urus-Martan District, caused a negative reaction on the media. In their comments, social media users point out that the law enforcers did not explain what the children had done and why it was necessary to post the video of the schoolgirls’ reprimand for public viewing.

January 27, 2023 09:46

• College in Novocherkassk announces conditions for girls expelled for hijabs to return to studies

  Five female students expelled for wearing hijabs can resume their studies if they refuse to wear clothes with religious attributes, the bosses of the Novocherkassk Medical College have stated.

January 26, 2023 23:37

• Astrakhan resident fined for pacifist comments in social media

  A court in Astrakhan has imposed a fine on a local resident, Ifrat Khabibulin, finding his comments in a social network as discrediting Russian militaries.

January 26, 2023 23:12

• MMA fighter promises Mercedes for subscribing to Kadyrov on Instagram*

  In his Instagram* blog, Askhab Tamaev, a Chechen MMA (mixed martial arts) fighter, has announced a lottery with a car and an 15 iPhones as prizes among those who will subscribe to the accounts of Ramzan Kadyrov and his entourage.

January 26, 2023 21:18

• Liquidation of MHG continues cleansing in human rights movement

  The Russian Ministry of Justice achieved the liquidation of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) on the basis of absurd arguments and nit-picking, and the defence will file an appeal against the court’s decision, advocates Henry Reznik and Mikhail Biryukov state.

January 26, 2023 21:11

• Court disbelieves repentance of Novorossiysk blogger Alibekov

  A court in Novorossiysk has rejected the request lodged of Askhabali Alibekov to consider his criminal case under the special procedure in exchange for a mitigation of the punishment, by treating the blogger’s remorse for discrediting the army as insincere.

January 26, 2023 17:17

• Alaudinov treats video with complaints against Chechen fighters as staged

  Apti Alaudinov, the commander of the “Akhmat” Special Forces unit, has called the video with a complaint on behalf of Russian fighters about the actions of Chechen counterparts as staged, claiming that his subordinates never resort to illegal actions.

January 26, 2023 17:10

• Court rules on liquidation of MHG

  In Moscow, a court granted a claim filed by the Russian Ministry of Justice for the liquidation of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG).

January 25, 2023 23:55

• Journalists were not let to session on MHG liquidation

  The Moscow City Court (MCC) has begun considering a liquidation claim against the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG). Journalists and visitors were not allowed into the courtroom, offering them to watch the session by video broadcast.

January 25, 2023 23:16

• Film by Sokurov's pupil included into Berlin Film Festival programme

  The film by Malika Musaeva, a pupil of the famous film director, Alexander Sokurov, entitled "A bird is looking for a cage" has been included into the Encounters programme of the Berlin Film Festival.

January 25, 2023 15:16

• Advocate reports deterioration of Zarema Musaeva’s condition

  A Chechen expert was not able to confirm in court his conclusions about the harm to the health of the law enforcer, whom, according to the investigators’ version, was scratched by Zarema Musaeva. An independent expert stated that the conclusions of the first examination were unfounded.

January 25, 2023 14:12

• ECtHR awards compensation of 52,000 euros to Ruslan Kutaev for persecution in Chechnya

  In Chechnya, a court pronounced a decision in a drug possession case against Ruslan Kutaev, the president of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations, without taking into account the fact that confessions were obtained under torture and without reliable evidence of his guilt, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled.

January 24, 2023 23:59

• After man’s death at police station, social network users remind Dagestani leader about Gasanguseinovs’ case

  In a social network, residents of Dagestan have reminded Sergey Melikov, the head of the republic, that the law enforcers involved in the murder of Gasanguseinov brothers, have not yet been punished. They demanded a duly qualitative inquiry into the death of a native of the Shamil District at a Makhachkala police station.

January 24, 2023 23:57

• On rights defenders’ demand, remains of Semyon Ganshin, a Sochi resident, exhumed

  After the meeting of human rights defenders with the head of the Kuban (Krasnodar Territorial) Branch of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the remains of Sochi resident Semyon Ganshin were exhumed in order to accurately identify the deceased, Roman Veretennikov, a lawyer for the “Team Against Torture”*, has informed.

January 24, 2023 23:55

• Resident of Buynaksk convicted of calling for protests

  A resident of Buynaksk, who posted calls in social networks to participate in protests against regular power outages, has been sentenced to four months of freedom restriction.

January 24, 2023 22:01

• Gadjiev’s colleagues treat decrease in police’s interest in their pickets as temporary

  Passers-by were actively interested in the solo picket held by Idris Yusupov, a journalist, in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev; and law enforcers’ attention to the action was limited to the fact that they wrote down the picketer’s data, Yusupov himself has informed.

January 24, 2023 21:26

• In KBR, advocate sentenced to term in penal colony

  A court in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has sentenced Ratmir Zhilokov, an advocate, to a year and a half in colony, finding him guilty of assaulting a policeman.

January 24, 2023 21:10

• FSB reports about prevented terror act in Northern Caucasus

  A man suspected in the preparation of a terror act in the North-Caucasian Federal District has been detained, the FSB reports. The detainee confessed to plotting an attack on the police.

January 23, 2023 23:55

• Conscript from Ingushetia sentenced for service evasion

  In Nalchik, the Nalchik Garrison Military Court sentenced Umar Sautiev, a resident of Ingushetia, to a year of imprisonment, finding him guilty of leaving for home without permission from his place of service during the mobilization.

January 23, 2023 20:17

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of January 16-22, 2023

  Continuation of the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, fate of Azerbaijani oppositionists, Kadyrov’s dispute with Russian generals, Yangulbaev family case, firing in Sagaredjo, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 16-22, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.