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February 26, 2024 23:16

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of February 19-25, 2024

  Eighty years after the deportation, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, death of Alexei Navalny* and 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 February 19-25, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

February 26, 2024 22:16

• KBR resident complains to ICRF against Stalin for committed deportation

  The reason for deporting Caucasian nations in 1944 was in their ethnicity, while the then USSR Constitution guaranteed equality; this was stated by Oleg Kelemetov, a resident of Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), in his application to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

February 26, 2024 21:47

• Public prosecutor requests court to sentence human rights defender Oleg Orlov* to imprisonment

  A public prosecutor requested court to sentence human rights defender Oleg Orlov*, accused of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces, to two years and eleven months of imprisonment.

February 26, 2024 18:15

• Father of girl missing in Dagestan asks Putin to help with searching her

  Anna Tsomartova, an athlete, was last seen in the FSB sanatorium in Kaspiysk, after which she disappeared, Nikolai Tsomartov, her father, has stated in his petition posted on the Change.org website. He has asked Russian President, Vladimir Putin, to help with the inquiry.

February 26, 2024 17:40

• Those accused of setting fire to military commissariat in Kuban declared political prisoners

  The project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial" has recognized Boris Goncharenko and Bogdan Abdurakhmanov, accused of setting fire to the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) building in the town of Goryachy Klyuch, as political prisoners. The charge of terrorism is unjustified, human rights defenders have stated.

February 26, 2024 16:50

• Activists announce disappearance of Sochi resident after arrest

  Nikolai Zimirev, a resident of Sochi who has attracted law enforcers' attention with an action in memory of Alexei Navalny, has not been in contact for five days after his detention. Today, the district court released information about an administrative case against Zimirev.

February 25, 2024 23:14

• Verdict to Kuban woman of financing terrorism upheld

  The Russian Supreme Court (SC) has found no grounds to overturn the verdict to Olga Petrova, a resident of the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river), who was sentenced to seven years for financing terrorism.

February 25, 2024 21:24

• Sochi residents try making Navalny's memorial at WW II victims' memorial

  After the death of Alexei Navalny, Sochi townspeople began leaving in his memory at the memorial complex, where official events are held on the Fatherland Defender Day. After that, authorities moved the February 23 celebrations to another place; and the memorial was surrounded by a fence allegedly for repairs.

February 25, 2024 20:58

• Adygea head and senators from Dagestan and KBR come under Australian sanctions

  Australia has imposed sanctions on Murat Kumpilov, the head of Adygea, and on Ilyas Umakhanov and Arsen Kanokov, the senators (members of the Russia's Federation Council) from Dagestan and the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), accordingly.

February 25, 2024 17:53

• Rights defenders claim non-transparent inquiries into kidnappings in Chechnya

  Case files of people's forced disappearances in Chechnya are classified; and even relatives of those kidnapped have no legal ways to find out details or achieve an efficient investigation, human rights defenders have pointed out, adding that appeals to international structures yield no results.

February 25, 2024 16:36

• Rally in memory of victims of deportation held in Grozny without Kadyrov’s participation

  In Grozny, Chechen officials and MPs held a rally in memory of the victims of the Stalin’s repressions. The event took place without the participation of Ramzan Kadyrov, who limited himself to a post in the Telegram channel on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the deportation of the Vainakh people.

February 25, 2024 14:31

• Investigators report 13 defendants in case on Dalgatov’s death

  The Makhachkala police department is engaged in finalizing the charges to be brought against thirteen detainees in a criminal case on the death of Kurban Dalgatov.

February 24, 2024 23:31

• Participants of rally in Nazran honour memory of victims of deportation of Vainakh

  In Nazran, hundreds of people came to a mourning meeting on the 80th anniversary of Stalin’s deportation of Ingush and Chechens to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

February 24, 2024 22:16

• Participants of the action in Dagestani Novokuli honour deportation victims

  Every Chechen family suffered from deportation, participants in the action held in the Novolaksky District of Dagestan have stated. According to their stories, the memory about the Vainakhs' deportation and about victims thereof is transferred from generation to generation.

February 24, 2024 21:13

• Chechen Minister Dudaev reacts to US sanctions

  The US Treasury has included Akhmed Dudaev, the head of the Ministry of Nationalities of Chechnya, into the sanctions list. The Minister has stated that he fears only sanctions from Ramzan Kadyrov and the Almighty.

February 24, 2024 20:23

• "Memory Project" recalls problem of unpunished kidnappings in Chechnya

  On the anniversary of Stalin's deportation of Vainakhs, the human rights "Memory Project" has issued a documentary about the people who fell victim to kidnappings and forced disappearances in Chechnya in the 2000s.

February 24, 2024 18:57

• ECtHR awards compensations to three activists from Southern Russia

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has awarded compensations to two Rostov and one Volgograd residents detained at protest actions in 2021 and 2022.

February 24, 2024 16:46

• 80 years since Vainakhs' deportation

  February 23 marked the 80th anniversary of the deportation of Chechens and Ingushes to Kazakhstan and Central Asia. The head of Chechnya and republic's state-owned media have passed over this date in silence.

February 24, 2024 15:31

• Mothers of Dagestanis killed in Chechnya treat their struggle for justice as principle

  The decision of the Russia's Supreme Court (SC), which has refused to acquit the eight residents of Dagestan killed in Chechnya in 2016, was expected for the casualties' mothers, but they have declared their commitment to continue their fight for justice.

February 23, 2024 20:21

• Defence appeals against arrest of Krasnodar activist Vyazov

  The advocates of Andrei Vyazov, an activist, arrested in Krasnodar on February 17, after a rally in memory of Alexei Navalny, have filed a complaint against the arrest decision. Because of Vyazov's arrest, his elderly relatives were left without help, his girlfriend has informed.