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March 29, 2024 22:57

• Oleg Orlov's* relatives are alarmed by his state of health

  Oleg Orlov*, a human rights defender, sentenced to 2.5 years in penal colony for his pacifist position, is deprived of hot meals and subjected to gruelling daily trips from the SIZO (pre-trial prison) to the court, says his advocates' complaint.

March 29, 2024 22:36

• Zarema Musaeva's health condition worsens in colony

  Zarema Musaeva's sense of vision has sharply deteriorated in the colony in Argun; and she also suffers from swellings and severe pain, his advocate has informed.

March 29, 2024 22:10

• Court's ruling on torture in Kuban outrages human rights defenders

  Torture is a grave crime; and the court ruling to sentence a law enforcer from the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river) to a fine of 50,000 roubles for beating up Andrei Popov is excessively lenient, human rights defenders have noted.

March 29, 2024 17:24

• Participants of Navalny's commemoration outraged by disclosure of personal data

  The Volgograd residents, whose personal data were disclosed on air of the "Volgograd-1" TV channel, intend to file complaints with law enforcement bodies.

March 28, 2024 22:50

• Policeman from Krasnodar Territory fined for beating detainee

  A court in the Krasnodar Territory has fined Evgeny Volkov, a policeman, by 50,000 roubles under the case of torturing Andrei Popov, who was detained on suspicion of theft.

March 28, 2024 22:19

• Court extends arrest of blogger Alyona Agafonova

  Alyona Agafonova, a blogger from Samara, accused of desecrating a symbol of military glory because of her video filmed near the monument "The Motherland is Calling!" has been left in custody until June 19.

March 28, 2024 22:16

• Court arrests eighth suspect accused in case on terror act at Crocus City Hall

  A court in Moscow arrested Alisher Kasimov, a native of Kyrgyzstan, on the charge of involvement in organizing the terror act at the Crocus City Hall.

March 28, 2024 22:13

• Blogger Alibekov remains under arrest in Kazan

  In Tatarstan, the court of appeal upheld the decision to arrest Askhabali Alibekov, a native of Dagestan, suspected of using violence against a policeman.

March 28, 2024 22:03

• Attack on Crocus City Hall highlights issue of state assistance to victims of terror acts

  In Russia, the status of victims of terror acts should be legislated and state assistance should be guaranteed to them, human rights defenders claim after the terror act at the Crocus City Hall. According to the human rights defenders, the authorities still do not provide full-scale assistance to the victims of the terror act in Beslan and the militant attack on Nalchik.

March 27, 2024 23:47

• Awards for capture of terrorists brighten image of “Akhmat” regiment

  A report on the awarding of “Akhmat” fighters for the detention of the suspects accused of committing the terror act at the Crocus City Hall looks like an attempt to artificially increase the importance of the Chechen military unit. That has been noted by military experts interviewed.

March 27, 2024 22:35

• Volgograd TV channel organizes persecution of Alexei Navalny’s supporters

  In Volgograd, a local TV channel has disclosed the names of people who brought flowers to the monument to the victims of political repressions in memory of Alexei Navalny, calling them potential “saboteurs.”

March 27, 2024 19:49

• Rights defender Nagavkin claims contradictions in testimonies of prosecution witnesses

  Igor Nagavkin, a Volgograd human rights defender, has asked the court to pay attention to contradictions in witnesses' testimonies about the time of the incident in the cell. The judge refused to add his motion to the case files.

March 27, 2024 16:51

• Analysts treat Akhmat Kadyrov's idea of Chechen censorship in social networks as absurd

  Officials cannot define behaviour norms for the Chechen society, since they are formed by the society itself; and the search for social network users, whose actions and statements contradict the Chechens' mentality, will lead to mass repressions with forced apologies, analysts are sure.

March 27, 2024 14:49

• Schoolchildren in Southern Russia frightened by offers to commit terror acts

  Teenagers from different country regions, including from Southern Russia, are massively receiving offers in instant messengers from unknown persons to commit terror acts, Ekaterina Mizulina, the director of the Safe Internet League, has reported.

March 26, 2024 23:13

• Analysts dispute on risks of IS'* intensifying in Northern Caucasus

  After the terror act at the Crocus City Hall, in Northern Caucasus, there is a risk of intensification of militants of the IS*, although no terror acts on civilians have not been observed there since 2018. This was noted by Sergey Goncharov, a veteran of special services, and Andrei Koshkin, a military expert.

March 26, 2024 20:26

• Residents of Southern Russia commemorate victims of terror act at Crocus City Hall

  Cities of the Southern and North-Caucasian Federal Districts (SFD and NCFD) have hosted actions in memory of the victims of the terror act at the Crocus City Hall, involving thousands of people.

March 26, 2024 19:40

• Attack on Crocus City Hall surpasses Dubrovka terror act in death toll

  More people perished in the terror act at the Crocus City Hall than in the one committed in 2002 at the Dubrovka Theatre Centre; it follows from the official data on the death toll.

March 26, 2024 19:27

• Human rights defender Nagavkin stops his hunger strike, SIZO reports

  Human rights defender Igor Nagavkin has stopped his hunger strike, reports a spokesperson for the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Leninsk.

March 26, 2024 17:17

• ECtHR finds violations of protesters' rights in Ingushetia and Krasnodar Territory

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has awarded compensations to a Magas protester in March 2019, and to seven activists from the Krasnodar Territory.

March 25, 2024 23:18

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of March 18-24, 2024

  Villages of discord, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, mourning in the Caucasus for those killed in Moscow, NATO Secretary General’s visit to Southern Caucasus, and official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of March 18-24, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.