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November 27, 2024 23:11

• Court in Nalchik finds soldier fit for service after grave wound

  The Nalchik Garrison Military Court has rejected the claim lodged by Nikolai Spichkin, a military serviceman, who asked to find him unfit for service due to the removal of part of his intestines after the received wound.

November 27, 2024 22:55

• Court stops prosecuting female rights defender from "Marem" Group

  A court in the Moscow Region has found no violation in the words of Ekaterina Neroznikova, a human rights defender, about the case of Seda Suleimanova. The reason for stopping the prosecution under the article on participation in an undesirable organization was in violations in the protocol, the human rights project "OVD-Info"* has informed.

November 27, 2024 18:16

• Court reduces sentence of writer Zaripov, convicted of appealing to Kadyrov

  The military appellate court has replaced the five-year term of Zakhar Zaripov, convicted of appealing to the head of Chechnya, with a fine. After a cancer surgery, half of Zaripov's face is paralyzed and his vision has deteriorated.

November 27, 2024 00:15

• Court of appeal upholds verdict in case on riots at Makhachkala airport

  The court of appeal refused to grant the appeals filed against the verdicts to five men convicted in the case on riots at the airport in Makhachkala.

November 26, 2024 22:09

• Lawyers comment on recognition of activist Ruslan Nurushev as political prisoner

  The “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial” human rights project recognized Ruslan Nurushev, a lawyer from Volgograd, as a political prisoner. This status is important from a political and moral point of view.

November 26, 2024 21:53

• Activist from Kazan placed to IVS in Karachay-Cherkessia

  In Karachay-Cherkessia, the law enforcement bodies suspected activist Guzel Kasimova from Tatarstan of posting leaflets about an impending terror act.

November 26, 2024 20:43

• Nikita Zhuravel sentenced to 13.5 years in jail for burning Koran down

  A court in Volgograd has sentenced Nikita Zhuravel to a long colony term, finding him guilty of treason.

November 26, 2024 19:02

• Woman from Stavropol Territory fined for discrediting Russian militaries

  A court in the Stavropol Territory has fined Anastasia Kalmykova by 30,000 roubles, treating her statement about the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine as discrediting the Russian Army.

November 26, 2024 17:28

• Three Dagestani law enforcers suspected of torture

  The policemen from Dagestan, Magomed Magomedov, Ramazan Magomedov and Abdulatip Gadjiev are suspected of abuse of power and torture.

November 25, 2024 23:59

• Zheleznovodsk townswoman detained for her pacifist statements

  Law enforcers have detained a woman from the city of Zheleznovodsk who spoke out against the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine.

November 25, 2024 23:58

• Court ignores arguments of journalist Kevorkova's defence in terrorism justifying case

  The defence insisted on softening the freedom restriction measure for Nadezhda Kevorkova, a journalist, since the inquiry is over, and she cannot influence it, but the court has ignored the advocates' arguments.

November 25, 2024 23:43

• Activist Atamanchuk denied motions in Sochi court contempt case

  At the first hearing in the contempt case, Vladimir Atamanchuk, a Sochi activist, was denied a motion to remove the judge, conduct a linguistic expertise, and request a preliminary hearing.

November 25, 2024 19:23

• Participation in SMO is way for convicted officials to avoid colony term

  Convicted officials, in particular, the former district head in Rostov-on-Don, when going to the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, want not only to avoid a colony term, but also to show that they are useful to the country.

November 25, 2024 17:22

• Case of participant of Basaev's raid on Dagestan sent for reconsideration

  After overturning the verdict, the case of Alexander Umantsev, a Chechen native, convicted of taking part in the militants' raid on Dagestan, has been sent for review.

November 23, 2024 23:48

• Analysts assess nature of inscription on Kadyrov monument

  The inscription that the woman from the town of Sergiev Posad left on the monument to Akhmat Kadyrov erected in the Yuzhnoye Butovo District of Moscow is offensive, but rather refers to the current leadership of Chechnya.

November 23, 2024 23:07

• Zarema Musaeva interrogated within new criminal case

  Law enforcers in Chechnya have interrogated Zarema Musaeva for the first time within a criminal case about attacking a prison colony employee; she is a suspect under this case.

November 23, 2024 21:59

• Human rights defender Igor Nagavkin goes on hunger strike at penal colony

  Human rights defender Igor Nagavkin declared a hunger strike after being placed to a punishment cell in a penal colony in Uryupinsk. Human rights defenders sent a request concerning the legality of the actions of the penal colony administration in relation to Igor Nagavkin.

November 23, 2024 21:17

• Cleansings in Chechnya are coercion element for sending to Ukraine

  Law enforcers are demanding from the men detained in Chechnya to sign contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD), since the republic lacks volunteers to send to the special military operation (SMO), analysts believe.

November 22, 2024 23:55

• Law enforcers draw up protocol against rights defender for her comment on Suleimanova's case

  Because of her comment on the case of Seda Suleimanova, an abducted Chechen woman, the administrative case against Ekaterina Neroznikova, a human rights defender, accused of collaborating with an undesirable organization, has been transferred to court.

November 22, 2024 23:29

• Court extends arrest of two figurants of preparing terror act in Kaspiysk

  A Moscow court has extended the arrest of Shakhromdjon Gadoev and Mustakim Soliev, who were detained in Dagestan and are accused of preparing a terror act in Kaspiysk and supplying weapons to the attackers on the Crocus City Hall, until the end of next February.