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June 15, 2024 15:55

• ECtHR finds violation of rights of activists from Southern Russia

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found unlawful the detention of activists at protest actions held in Rostov-on-Don, Sochi, Anapa and Stavropol.

June 14, 2024 22:59

• Stavropol resident demands to punish law enforcers for torturing his son

  Law enforcers have detained Eldar Kyulbyakov, a resident of the village of Suvorovskaya, and tortured him with electric shock, demanding that he write a confession. According to his father, they also demanded from Eldar to testify against the head of one of the police departments.

June 14, 2024 21:47

• Makhachkala resident convicted in case on involvement in “USSR”*

  A court sentenced a woman from Makhachkala to a suspended sentence, recognizing her as a member of a cell of the extremist organization “Union of Rus’ Slavic Forces”.

June 14, 2024 20:39

• Court finds it unlawful to cancel sentence of law enforcers for beating a Krasnodar resident

  The Court of Cassation for the third time returned to the Krasnodar Territorial Court the criminal case on beating of Yevgeniy Manchenko, a person with disabilities, by law enforcers. The court recognized the cancellation of the sentence as unlawful.

June 14, 2024 19:56

• Economist Zubarevich assesses potential of investment projects in Northern Caucasus

  The agreements on the creation of a “Wildberries” logistics hub in North Ossetia and a plant for the production of polymer pipes in Budyonnovsk look like the most realistic of all the investment projects for Northern Caucasus concluded at the Saint Petersburg Economic Forum, economist Natalia Zubarevich suggests.

June 14, 2024 18:10

• Artists appreciate significance of Kishev’s collection for Kabardino-Balkaria

  The authorities of Kabardino-Balkaria have provided assistance to artist Mukhadin Kishev in his struggle for an art house in Nalchik, a lawyer reports. Artists consider national motifs in a modern interpretation as one of the features of the Mukhadin Kishev’s works.

June 13, 2024 23:49

• Defendants in case on riots at Makhachkala airport plead not guilty

  Shamil Khadulaev, the chair of the Public Monitoring Commission (PMC) of Dagestan, reports that 134 people remain under arrest in connection with the riots at an airport in Makhachkala and two others still stay under house arrest, although the accused claim that they were at the airport, but did not participate in the riots.

June 13, 2024 22:57

• Persecution case of Navalny's supporters in Volgograd comes to court

  Residents of Volgograd have filed a lawsuit after journalists from a pro-governmental TV channel disclosed their personal data. The journalists filmed Volgograd townspeople as they laid flowers in memory of Alexei Navalny, and then disseminated their data, treating them as potential saboteurs.

June 13, 2024 21:46

• Policemen search home of Volgograd activist

  Law enforcers have conducted a search in the apartment of Vladimir Telpuk, a Volgograd activist, explaining is as an inquiry into the case of the former coordinator of Navalny's office.

June 13, 2024 20:11

• Anapa townspeople complain of harassment after their video appeal to Putin

  Law enforcers are trying to present the actions of Anapa residents as an unsanctioned rally, because they had recorded a video appeal to the Russian President, in which they complained that the administration of a local children's camp had blocked the beach with a fence, depriving people of access thereto. The camp director has explained that the fence was installed for security reasons.

June 13, 2024 19:10

• Journalist Magomedov disappointed with court ruling on his claim against law enforcers

  Magomed Magomedov, a deputy editor-in-chief of the "Chernovik" (Draft) outlet, has stated that he intends to appeal against the ruling of the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan, which has only partially recognized law enforcers' actions during his solo picket as illegal.

June 12, 2024 19:13

• Fundraiser announced to pay for Boris Goncharenko’s defence

  Activists announced raising money to pay for the services of an advocate for Boris Goncharenko, accused in a case on arson of a military registration and enlistment office in the city of Goryachy Klyuch. In total, it is planned to collect 315,000 roubles.

June 12, 2024 18:56

• Volgograd lawyer complains about bureaucracy in investigators’ and prosecutors’ work

  Lawyer Ruslan Nurushev filed a complaint to the higher instance prosecutor’s office about the inaction of the district prosecutor’s office and the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in the case on the disclosure of his personal data in the media.

June 12, 2024 17:17

• Court recognizes violation of Dagestani journalist Magomed Magomedov’s rights by police

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan partially granted the claim filed by Magomed Magomedov, the deputy editor-in-chief of the Dagestani weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft), recognizing the law enforcers’ request to go to a police station and the detention of the journalist at the police department as illegal.

June 11, 2024 22:49

• Krasnodar student fined for financing FBK*

  A court fined a student from Krasnodar 300,000 roubles, finding him guilty of financing the Anti-Corruption Foundation*.

June 11, 2024 21:52

• Judge resumes inquiry into case of Jehovah's Witnesses* from Elista

  The judge who is considering the case of three Jehovah's Witnesses* from Elista (the capital of Kalmykia) failed to pronounce his verdict and resumed the trial for additional examination of the case materials.

June 11, 2024 18:38

• Claim of KBR activist against FSB left unsatisfied

  Referring to some state secrets, the Nalchik City Court in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has refused to satisfy the lawsuit lodged by Olga Begretova, an activist, who demanded to illegitimate the refusal of the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) to provide the data collected about her. She intends to appeal against the refusal.

June 11, 2024 17:18

• Court recognizes artist Kishev’s right to art house in Nalchik

  A court supported artist Mukhadin Kishev in his dispute over the right to premises of an art house in Nalchik, because of which the artist’s spouse appealed to Ramzan Kadyrov. Following the court’s decision, more than a thousand paintings will stay in Kabardino-Balkaria and will not be transported to some other destinations, announces a lawyer of Mukhadin Kishev.

June 10, 2024 22:50

• ECtHR recognizes violation of Krasnodar Navalny supporter’s rights

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) recognized a 10-day arrest of Anastasia Panchenko, a former coordinator of the Alexei Navalny’s office in Krasnodar, for calling for participation in a rally as a violation of her rights. The ECtHR obliged the authorities of Russia to pay Anastasia Panchenko 5 000 euros.

June 10, 2024 20:49

• Relatives of Dagestani military man to obtain compensation for his death in Ukraine

  In the Kizlyar District, a court obliged the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Ministry of Finance to pay 500,000 roubles to each of six relatives of Khalid Kurbanov, killed in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, in compensation for moral damage.