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January 15, 2023 18:43

• Dagestani villagers urge Melikov to intervene in land conflict

  Without owners' consent, they are planning to give the land plots belonging to villagers in the Rutulsky District into long-time lease, local residents have complained in their video appeal to Sergey Melikov, the head of Dagestan.

January 15, 2023 18:40

• Court holds session on "Ingush case" behind closed doors

  The court has explained its decision not to allow journalists to attend the consideration of the appeal lodged by the activists convicted within the case of the rally in Magas by the absence of vacant seats in the courtroom.

January 15, 2023 11:33

• Decision on paying compensations to residents of Chechnya for destroyed housing cancelled

  The appellate instance has overturned the decision of the Grozny court, which had obliged authorities to pay compensations for the lost housing to the residents of the Shali District who had suffered from the earthquake.

January 14, 2023 23:50

• Chechen driver publicly reprimanded for dangerous driving

  A video depicting a young man being reprimanded at a police station has posted on social media. The resident of the Gudermes District grossly violated the road traffic regulations, the law enforcement bodies reported.

January 14, 2023 23:39

• Wife of mobilized Kuban resident reports loss of his documents by military office

  After returning from the special military operation zone, Alexei Abramov, a resident of Krasnodar, who was mobilized although he had got spinal injuries, was sent to Dagestan to undergo a medical examination. The military office lost documents about the Alexei Abramov’s illnesses, his wife said.

January 13, 2023 23:53

• ECtHR awards compensations to four convicts from Rostov Region

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has taken the side of four residents of Taganrog and awarded them compensations from 2100 to 9750 euros, after finding the period of their pre-trial detention as unreasonably long.

January 13, 2023 23:51

• HRW points to human rights violations in Chechnya and Dagestan

  In 2022, amid the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, Chechen authorities continued suppressing the dissent, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) has noted. Its report also mentions the persecutions of opponents of mobilization in Dagestan.

January 13, 2023 23:50

• Advocate demands to return home mobilized Dagestani with many children

  Alibek Alibekov, a resident of Dagestan with many children, was denied a deferment from mobilization; his advocate has sent a complaint to the Russia's Commissioner for Children's Rights.

January 13, 2023 17:15

• SAM of Chechnya reports about training fighters

  Employees of the Chechen Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) and the republic's Imams are undergoing military training at the Russian University of Special Forces in Gudermes in order to be ready for sending to the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine, the SAM (or the Muftiate) has informed.

January 13, 2023 16:59

• Ukrainian SBU accuses Kadyrov’s adviser Delimkhanov of justifying military operation

  The Security Service of Ukraine accused Russian State Duma member Adam Delimkhanov in absentia of encroaching on the territorial integrity of Ukraine and justifying the special military operation. Adam Delimkhanov said those accusations did not matter to him.

January 13, 2023 16:42

• Human rights defenders report a threat to security of Dagestani native Elina Ukhmanova

  Elina Ukhmanova, a resident of Dagestan, who claimed being persecuted for bisexuality and atheism, mentioned the parents’ plans to send her for treatment to the Chechen centre of Islamic medicine as the reason for her running away from home.

January 12, 2023 18:08

• Makhachkala townspeople complained about emergency services' inaction

  In Makhachkala, for more than 24 hours, municipal services fail to react to power and water supply outages, residents of the city have complained.

January 12, 2023 18:00

• Court refuses to release Zarema Musaeva

  Despite the medical documents about the deterioration of her health condition, the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has upheld the extension of the arrest of Zarema Musaeva.

January 12, 2023 17:49

• Female refugee from Kherson fined in Kuban for discrediting army

  The Timashevsky District Court has fined Karina Terebetskaya, a refugee from Kherson, for discrediting the Russian Army.

January 12, 2023 17:38

• Authors of film “Fathers and Sons. And Torture” recall murder of Gasanguseinov brothers in Dagestan

  In the film “Fathers and Sons. And Torture”, the “Team Against Torture”* recalled the murder of the Gasanguseinov brothers in Dagestan, which has remained unsolved for more than five years already.

January 12, 2023 17:15

• Lawyers request courts to reconsider decisions on liquidation of “Memorials”*

  Lawyers from the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* and the “Memorial International”* (International Historical Educational Charitable and Human Rights Society “Memorial”) filed complaints to courts requesting them to examine for legality the liquidation of the above organizations and their inclusion in the register of foreign agents.

January 11, 2023 19:19

• Kadyrov announces number of Chechen fighters involved in SMO

  More than 21,000 Chechen fighters have taken part in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine; and over 9000 are currently on the frontlines there, the head of Chechnya has stated.

January 11, 2023 17:46

• Examination finds no extremism in Abdulmumin Gadjiev's articles

  At the court session on the case of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Kemal Tambiev and Abubakar Rizvanov, the outcomes of the examination of the articles written by Gadjiev a Dagestani journalist, for the "Chernovik" outlet were announced.

January 11, 2023 16:40

• Volgograd resident claims torture after setting fire to rug at FSB door in Krasnodar

  After detention, law enforcers tortured, including with the use of electric current, Igor Paskar, a resident of Volgograd, accused of committing a terror act attack and vandalism: he set fire to a rug near the FSB building in Krasnodar; he claimed torture at the trial at the Southern District Court.

January 11, 2023 16:25

• Lawyers treat as reasonable period for investigation into young man’s murder near Kayakent in Dagestan

  The case on the murder of 19-year-old Magomed-Ali Sultanov is at the stage of preliminary investigation, the Investigating Department for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.