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April 27, 2024 23:50

• KChR resident suspected of spreading fakes about Russian Army

  Taulan Kipkeev, a mountaineering instructor from the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), became a suspect within a criminal case of fakes about the Russian Army after his posts criticizing the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine.

April 27, 2024 22:47

• Kalmyk activist Vladimir Dovdanov* announced wanted

  The police have put on the wanted list Vladimir Dovdanov, a Kalmyk activist, who has fled Russia, and is accused of calling for undermining the state security.

April 27, 2024 21:59

• Activists point to unifying significance of Circassian Flag Day

  The Circassian Flag Day consolidates the Adygs (Circassians) in Southern Russia and abroad, but this is primarily a merit of public organizations, not the authorities, the Circassian activists who had left Russia have indicated.

April 27, 2024 20:45

• Musaeva's defence denies her urgent hospitalization

  Zarema Musaeva remains in the colony for now; her advocates are seeking her transfer to a medical institution, but urgent hospitalization is out of question, the "Team Against Torture" (TaT)* has informed.

April 27, 2024 19:06

• Participants of festival in Nalchik share their personal perception of Circassian flag

  The green flag with arrows and stars symbolizes the entire combination of national cultural values for the Circassians and gives hope for the future, emphasize participants in the celebration of the Circassian Flag Day in Nalchik.

April 26, 2024 23:58

• Court sides with mother of missing Chechen Movsar Umarov in her dispute with investigators

  In Grozny, a court recognized illegal the investigators’ refusal to provide Eset Umarova with all the materials of the criminal case on the disappearance of her son Movsar Umarov. The above court’s decision will allow the woman assess the investigators’ work, human rights defenders explain.

April 26, 2024 23:47

• Chechen authorities report about re-uniting of more than 2500 divorced couples

  Special commissions created on the instructions of Ramzan Kadyrov reunited 2565 divorced couples in Chechnya, the “Grozny” ChGTRK (State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company) reported.

April 26, 2024 22:45

• Court tightens sentence of Dagestani native Magomed Atimagomedov in case on attack on warders

  Magomed Atimagomedov, a native of Dagestan, convicted in a case on attacking warders from a Kalmyk penal colony and killing one of them, has his 25-year sentence replaced with life imprisonment.

April 26, 2024 20:07

• Volgograd blogger Prokudin sent to SIZO

  In Volgograd, a court arrested trash streamer Pavel Prokudin, accused of insulting Russian militaries. The defence asked the court to place Pavel Prokudin under house arrest.

April 26, 2024 18:34

• KBR woman asks to provide medical treatment to her convicted son

  In his colony, Eduard Kulbaev, a convict, is not receiving efficient treatment for diabetes, his mother, Marina Atabieva, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), has informed and called on the prosecutor's office to intervene in the situation.

April 25, 2024 23:10

• Rights defenders report that relatives of British citizen detained in Chechnya are not allowed to him

  Law enforcers would not let relatives of Magomed Abubakarov, a British citizen, who was wounded during detention in Urus-Martan and charged under two criminal articles, to see him, an activist of the "Memorial" Centre for Human Rights Defence* has informed.

April 25, 2024 21:57

• Son reports hospitalization of Zarema Musaeva

  Zarema Musaeva's health condition in the Argun penal colony where she is kept, has worsened sharply; she lost the ability to move, after which she was hospitalized, Abubakar Yangulbaev, a lawyer and one of Zarema's son, has informed.

April 25, 2024 21:33

• Three fines imposed on Stavropol resident for discrediting Russian Army upheld

  In the Stavropol Territory, the appellate instance has upheld three rulings on the fines imposed on Vitaly Fedorenko, who was found guilty of discrediting the Russian Army.

April 25, 2024 18:51

• Convict in Kalmykia demands compensation for being HIV-infected

  Yuri Mikhailov, who is serving his sentence in Elista, after staying in the Novorossiysk detention centre and the colonies of Kabardino-Balkaria and Kalmykia, became HIV-infected and sick with hepatitis. He demanded compensation for inadequate custody conditions.

April 25, 2024 17:34

• Lawyers assess prospects of punishing "Kadyrov's general" Tsakaev

  General Alikhan Tsakaev should face administrative and criminal liability, but the outcomes of the check conducted by the Main Department for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has failed to fix the General's attempt to attack law enforcers, which is seen in the video.

April 24, 2024 22:24

• Stavropol resident detained for attempting to set fire to military registration and enlistment office

  A man has been detained for attempting to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office in Stavropol. Scammers took three loans in his name and promised to write off the debts after arson of the military registration and enlistment office, Vladimir Vladimirov, Governor of the Stavropol Territory, reports in his Telegram channel.

April 24, 2024 21:06

• Krasnodar woman sentenced to compulsory labour for dancing in cemetery

  Sofia Burger, a resident of Krasnodar, has been sentenced to 440 hours of compulsory labour. The Leninsky District Court has found her guilty of insulting believers' feelings by dancing in a cemetery.

April 24, 2024 20:54

• Rostov prison doctors try to convince court of victims’ unreliability

  Employees of the Rostov tuberculosis hospital of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN), who challenged the verdict in the case on torture of patients, called the testimonies of the victims unreliable, citing their illnesses, reports lawyer Rustam Khanmurzaev.

April 24, 2024 20:27

• Rights defender Igor Nagavkin released from SIZO

  Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender, whom the Volgograd Regional Court decided to release from custody, has left the territory of the SIZO (pre-trial prison) and went home to the town of Kalach-on-Don, stating that he would seek full rehabilitation.

April 24, 2024 18:21

• Analysts doubt involvement of armed underground in incident in Karachaevsk

  An attack on policemen in Karachaevsk, as a result of which two of them were killed, is not connected with the armed underground, since it has been practically eliminated in Northern Caucasus.