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October 18, 2022 17:53

• Residents of Rostov Region tell about problems caused by mobilization of their relatives

  Relatives of those mobilized in the Krasnosulin District of the Rostov Region have complained that they had lost their husbands' and sons' support, and worry about their financial wellbeing.

October 18, 2022 04:14

• Colleagues of journalist Gadjiev hold solo pickets in Makhachkala

  In Makhachkala, solo pickets were held by journalists Magomed Magomedov and Idris Yusupov. The activist demanded to stop the criminal prosecution of Abdulmumin Gadjiev and release political prisoners.

October 18, 2022 04:07

• Court recognizes violations at waste landfill in Poltavskaya village

  The court has granted a claim filed by the Prosecutor’s Office and obliged a company engaged in monitoring a waste landfill in the village of Poltavskaya to install treatment facilities there and eliminate other violations against which local residents are protesting.

October 18, 2022 04:05

• In Vienna, picketers demand to protect rights of Chechen native Amina Gerikhanova

  In the Austrian capital, members of the Chechen Diaspora held a picket in support of Amina Gerikhanova and called on the Romanian authorities not to deport her to Russia.

October 17, 2022 20:07

• Tourist publicly apologizes for words about the Chechens

  The derogatory words about Chechens were a manifestation of an erroneous opinion, a tourist who had visited Chechnya said in a video, asking to forgive him for his remarks. The man was forced to apologize, commentators have suggested.

October 17, 2022 20:00

• Rights defenders demand to stop persecuting anti-mobilization protesters in Nalchik

  Human rights defenders and activists in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have called it illegal to bring the citizens-protesters in Nalchik on September 25-26 to administrative responsibility, and demanded to stop persecuting them.

October 16, 2022 23:45

• Rubati Mitsaeva, Akhmed Zakaev's ex-ally, who returned to Chechnya, demands apologies for threats she received in Turkey

  Rubati Mitsaeva, a former associate of Akhmed Zakaev, has stated that she and her daughter received threats when in Turkey on behalf of the blogger, Khasan Khalitov, and she resorted to retaliatory threats, demanding apologies.

October 16, 2022 23:44

• Woman from Cherkessk criticizes court marshals for inaction

  Galimat Okhtova from Cherkessk has treated the inaction of court marshals as the reason that two years after the verdict was passed on Mariam Karaeva, who had stolen the maternity capital from her daughter, the money has not yet been returned.

October 15, 2022 23:59

• Dagestani villagers have to build water supply line by themselves

  Residents of the highland village of Kharakhi in Dagestan have raised money and almost completed the construction of an 11-kilometre-long water pipeline after officials stated that they had no budget for that.

October 15, 2022 23:57

• ECtHR awards compensation of 45,000 euros to Sochi resident for torture

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has obliged Russian authorities to pay 45,000 euros to Georgy Sveshnikov, a resident of Sochi, as compensation within the case of torturing him by law enforcers.

October 15, 2022 23:52

• Sochi blogger claims that her Telegram account was hacked

  The Telegram channel "With Visor Open", in which the video was posted that caused the initiation of a case on discrediting the Russian Army, was hacked, the blogger, Anna Kolmagortseva, has informed. According to her story, she had promptly deleted both the video and the channel.

October 15, 2022 23:50

• Rostov-on-Don: emergency house tenants have power and water supplies connected

  After almost six weeks of outage, electricity and water supplies have been reconnected to No. 4 in Krivoshlykovsky Lane in Rostov-on-Don; the house was recognized as an emergency one. After the tenants' complaints, a criminal case of negligence was initiated.

October 15, 2022 10:43

• Resident of Volgograd Region accused of discrediting militaries

  The case of Eduard Safronov, a resident of the city of Volzhsky, accused of discrediting the Russian Army, has arrived in the court.

October 15, 2022 10:41

• After quitting SIZO in Adygea, activist Taganov needs doctors' care

  After Roman Taganov has served his term at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) located near Maykop, the capital of Adygea, his health became worse, and he needs medical treatment, said his wife. His advocate has confirmed his client's poor health.

October 14, 2022 23:59

• Court reconsiders sentence of policeman Dolgiev in case on rally in Magas

  The Pyatigorsk City Court pronounced a new punishment for Ingush policeman Magomed Dolgiev, sentencing him a shorter suspended imprisonment. At the same time, the judge added to the verdict the motive of political hostility towards the authorities of the republic, human rights defenders report today.

October 14, 2022 23:57

• At least 800 law enforcers from Southern Russia perish in Ukraine

  Since the beginning of the special military operation, the authorities have confirmed the information about at least 800 residents of Southern Russia perished in Ukraine, including 512 residents of the North-Caucasian Federal District and 288 residents of the South Federal District.

October 14, 2022 23:52

• Activist from Adygea, Roman Taganov, released from SIZO

  Roman Taganov, an activist, is back at large from the SIZO (pre-trial prison) a week after the decision of the Maykop court on his conditional custody came into force.

October 14, 2022 23:50

• Makhachkala: power outages follow gas shutdown

  Because of a four-day-long gas supply shutdown, Makhachkala residents had to heat water and cook food by using electricity; some townspeople were forced to purchase electrical appliances, while power supply outages were also observed in a number of city districts.

October 14, 2022 03:53

• ECtHR upholds Darya Polyudova's complaint about long custody

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has considered the complaint lodged by Darya Polyudova, an activist from the Krasnodar Territory, about her excessively long custody and the red tape in considering her appeals against her custody extensions.

October 14, 2022 03:49

• Amid mobilization, number of those who leave Chechnya increase significantly

  This year, statistics have recorded a sharp increase in the number of those who leave Chechnya, moving both to the CIS countries and abroad.