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November 21, 2022 13:03

• Social network users dispute with Kadyrov about Chechen language

  The Chechen language is dying out; it must be made the main communication language in families, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated. Residents of Chechnya are fluent in Chechen; the demands of the head of the republic are excessive, users of the social network "VKontakte" have objected.

November 20, 2022 23:58

• Activists from Poltavskaya complain to Prosecutor's Office about law enforcers' pressure

  The spouses, Natalia Garyaeva and Vadim Motovilov, who are fighting against the garbage dump in the village of Poltavskaya, have filed a complaint with the Prosecutor's Office against the policemen who tried to take them by force to court from the kindergarten.

November 19, 2022 15:33

• Volgograd residents ask Putin to recall their relatives from frontline

  A group of Volgograd residents have recorded a video appeal to President Vladimir Putin, in which they asked him to help so that their relatives, who had been sent to the military operation zone as part of the mobilization, were not sent to the frontline.

November 19, 2022 15:24

• Idea of Sufi battalions exposes recruiting problems in Chechnya

  By calling on Chechen Sufis to form combat units on the principle of belonging to religious brotherhoods, Ramzan Kadyrov is looking for a new mobilization resource in Chechnya. However, the addressees of his call are ideologically not disposed to take part in hostilities, analysts believe.

November 19, 2022 15:14

• ECtHR accepts complaint against sentence to Kuban activist Antonova

  The complaint against the verdict to Yana Antonova, an activist from Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), convicted of taking part in the activities of an undesirable organization, will be considered by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

November 18, 2022 23:59

• Human rights defenders call on Kokov to stop attacks on Institute for Humanitarian Studies

  Human rights defenders from Kabardino-Balkaria report that the police conducted searches at places of residence of some employees of the Kabardino-Balkarian Institute for Humanitarian Studies, and a campaign is being launched against them on social media.

November 18, 2022 23:52

• Rights defenders demand to stop discriminating natives of Chechnya in France

  French human rights organizations have urged the United Nations (UN) to influence the French authorities, who admit discrimination against natives from Chechnya and their deportation to Russia, where they face threats of torture, the "Memorial" Centre for Defence of Human Rights has informed.

November 18, 2022 23:36

• Defence treats sending Krasnodar activist to mental hospital as illegal

  Law enforcers had no right to forcibly take Irina Grigorieva, a Krasnodar activist, from home, as the judgement on her psychiatric examination is being appealed against in court, the woman's defence has pointed out.

November 18, 2022 23:31

• Advocates pointed to protraction of torture case of Dagestani prisoners at Kalmyk colony

  In the torture case of prisoners in the Kalmyk colony, investigators have not yet found any evidence and suspects, despite the identification of the law enforcers who used torture.

November 18, 2022 23:21

• Editorial Board of "Chernovik" announces pressure from Dagestani authorities

  The republic's authorities hinder the printing and distribution of the printed version of the Dagestani weekly "Chernovik" (Draft); thus, last week the outlet was not printed due to the printing house's refusal to print the weekly, the editorial board has stated.

November 17, 2022 23:40

• Dagestani comedians consider it excessive to be forced to apologize for a joke

  When commenting on a film crew’s apology for a humorous video message allegedly recorded on behalf of armed members of rural jamaat, Dagestani comedians noted that jokes should not become a reason for threats and forced apologies, and the authorities should not interfere in the sphere of humour.

November 17, 2022 23:33

• Political analysts explain family nature of US sanctions against Kerimov and Kadyrov

  By extending sanctions on relatives of Suleiman Kerimov and Ramzan Kadyrov, the USA is assessing the dependence of these politicians on the Kremlin and their ability to influence Putin, Pavel Zolotaryov, a deputy director of the Institute for the US and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), believes.

November 17, 2022 23:19

• Ramzan Kadyrov announced wanted in Ukraine

  The Security Service of Ukraine (known as the SBU) has put Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, on the wanted list as a person hiding from the preliminary investigation bodies.

November 16, 2022 23:59

• Krasnodar woman accused of discrediting army for destroying propaganda leaflets*

  A woman from Krasnodar torn down propaganda leaflets with the motto reading: “We don’t leave our people in trouble.” The police considered that the woman’s actions discredited the Russian Armed Forces.

November 16, 2022 23:57

• Experts treat idea to re-educate teenagers in Chechen camp as profanation

  Short-term “military-patriotic and spiritual-moral education” of teenagers from different regions in a children’s camp in Chechnya will have no effect and may even harm children, teacher Yevgeny Yamburg and human rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina point out.

November 16, 2022 16:53

• Rights defenders demand investigators' reaction to disappearance of Grozny resident

  The fate of Rizvan Dadaev from Grozny, who had confessed to being homosexual and detained in Chechnya, has been unknown for more than three months; and investigators have not yet reacted to the application about his disappearance.

November 16, 2022 16:43

• Military from Vladikavkaz sentenced to year in colony for refusal to take part in SMO

  Nikita Chereshnev, a contract military serviceman from North Ossetia, was found guilty of leaving his unit without permission and refusing to perform the "special missions" in Ukraine.

November 16, 2022 16:38

• Telegram users find apologies for comic video in Dagestan excessive

  The video clip, allegedly filmed on behalf of the armed members of the jamaat of the village of Salta, was a joke; and there is no need forcing people to apologize for it, the majority of commentators on the Telegram channel of the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) believe.

November 16, 2022 16:33

• Wife of a mobilized Kuban resident states deterioration of his health condition

  Alexei Abramov, who disputes his mobilization by the military commissariat without a medical examination, is in the military operation zone, while he could not walk for several days due to pain and unable to wear a bulletproof vest, his wife Ksenia has stated.

November 16, 2022 16:27

• Kadyrov announces conditions for the end of military operation in Ukraine

  The head of Chechnya has indicated two conditions for negotiations, under which Russia could agree to end the special military operation (SMO) conducted in Ukraine. If at least one of them is not fulfilled, Ramzan Kadyrov threatened that he would personally be among the volunteers who would achieve the enforcement thereof.