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December 20, 2022 22:41

• Video about Chechen women's readiness to defend homeland sparks commentators' bewilderment

  Akhmed Dudaev, the Chechen Minister of Information, has posted a video in social networks with female employees of law enforcement bodies. The video states that Chechen women are ready to support men in defending the interests of their homeland.

December 20, 2022 10:28

• Dagestan: Gadjiev's colleagues tell about law enforcers' attempts to disrupt pickets

  Policemen tried to hide the posters from passers-by and distracted the picketers, said Idris Yusupov, a journalist with the "Novoye Delo" outlet.

December 20, 2022 10:16

• Police report continuation of raids in Urus-Martan

  Armed law enforcers continue examining cars in the roads of the Urus-Martan District. The information about sending violators to the military operation zone is not true, the head of the district police has stated.

December 19, 2022 23:59

• In Dagestan, journalists support Gadjiev and Donogo with solo pickets

  In Makhachkala, Dagestani journalists held solo pickets with the demand to stop the criminal prosecution of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, an editor of the Dagestani weekly newspaper “Chernovik”, (Rough Draft), and historian Khadjimurad Donogo.

December 19, 2022 20:57

• Descendants of Volga Germans share memories of victims of Stalinist repressions

  Some of the Germans who had lived near the Volga River, and who suffered from deportation during Stalin's time, after returning to Russia found their houses occupied and settled in other territories, the members of the German community in the village of Verkhniy Eruslan, Volgograd Region, have reported.

December 19, 2022 20:16

• Astrakhan resident fined for discrediting Russian militaries

  A court in Astrakhan has fined Sergey Bataev, a local resident, by 35,000 roubles for discrediting the Russian Army.

December 19, 2022 13:20

• Week in the Caucasus: overview of main events on December 12-18, 2022

  How the unrecognized republic lives through a gas and transport blockade; ongoing protests in defence of Saakashvili in Georgia; and Kadyrov's conflicts with the Urus-Martan and Batal-Khadji people, – read about these events in the review of the main events in the Caucasus during the week on from December 12-18, 2022, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

December 19, 2022 02:20

• Kuban authorities report resettlement of 62 people from emergency housing

  The Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) administration has announced that in the Tikhoretsky District, 62 persons were resettled from apartment buildings that are in the state of emergency.

December 18, 2022 23:59

• In the Volgograd Region, orphan complains about provided housing

  Anastasia Khodosevich, a resident of the dwelling settlement of Rudnya, has complained that officials provided her, as an orphan, with an apartment with a broken roof and without hot water and heating.

December 18, 2022 23:57

• Kadyrov's daughters and cousin fall under EU sanctions

  The ninth package of sanctions of the European Union (EU) included 49 organizations and 141 individuals, including the daughters of the head of Chechnya, Aishat and Khadizhat Kadyrovas, and his cousin Turpal-Ali Ibragimov.

December 18, 2022 23:52

• Chechnya: prosecutor demands questioning victim in Musaeva's case

  The representative of the prosecutor's office has demanded to take into account the opinion of the victim before adding to Zarema Musaeva's case files the expert's conclusions, which contradict the prosecution's version. The court agreed to interrogate the law enforcer, of attacking whom Musaeva is accused.

December 18, 2022 23:50

• Chechnya: to calm Urus-Martan residents down, authorities resort to elders' reputation

  After a brawl of law enforcers in Urus-Martan, police raids, a search for eyewitnesses and threats to send local residents to the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine, authorities gathered the elders, urging them to educate the youth.

December 17, 2022 20:53

• In Krasnodar, court obliges MoD to pay 1.5 million roubles to mother of deceased soldier

  The Prikubansky District Court partially granted the claim filed by a mother of Stepan Tsymbal, deceased in the Voronezh Region, to recover compensation from the Russian Ministry of Defence.

December 17, 2022 20:46

• Advocate Mikhail Benyash* removed from defence of “Rosgvardiya” fighters dismissed in Kuban

  In Sochi, a court has removed Krasnodar advocate Mikhail Benyash from participation in the case of dismissed fighters of the “Rosgvardiya” (National Guard of Russia), declaring that being recognized as a foreign agent, Mikhail Benyash does not have access to state secrets.

December 16, 2022 23:55

• Dagestani court overturns sentence to law enforcers on Kurashova's torture case

  The appellate instance has overturned the sentence of the former policemen convicted of torturing Yulduz Kurashova in Khasavyurt, and sent the case back for a new trial.

December 16, 2022 23:53

• Incident with Dagestani woman's children turns into relatives' demand for guardianship

  After their refusal to live with their mother, the children of a Dagestani woman are in safety at the rehabilitation centre, the father of the children has stated, voicing out the plans to appoint his relatives as guardians.

December 16, 2022 15:20

• MIA claims that the Ukrainian detained in Kuban was fire spotter

  The citizen of Ukraine, detained in the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river), is accused of involvement in the death of three Russian policemen in the Kherson Region.

December 16, 2022 15:14

• Investigators react to incident with children of Dagestani woman

  Investigators have launched a checking after the children of a native of Dagestan, who achieved the restriction of parental rights of their father, threatened to jump off the fourth level of the building. In a video posted in social media, the children said they had been humiliated and beaten up.

December 16, 2022 15:09

• Russian MFA’s spokesperson Zakharova reports about Vatican’s apology for remarks about Chechens

  Vatican apologized for the Pope Francis’ words about the alleged cruelty of the militaries from Chechnya and Buryatia, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova reports.

December 16, 2022 15:05

• Prosecutor’s Office takes under special control Leyla Gireeva’s complaint about domestic violence

  The police of Ingushetia are checking the complaint about domestic violence filed by Leyla Gireeva, and the check is under special control in the Prosecutor’s Office, the “SK SOS Crisis Group” reports.