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June 30, 2024 23:58

• Kremlin's reaction to Kadyrov's words encourages threats to militants' families

  The soft reaction of the press secretary of the Russian President to Kadyrov's threats to militants' relatives has demonstrated the Kremlin's agreement with the methods of the head of Chechnya, analysts have pointed out.

June 30, 2024 23:55

• Kadyrov criticizes Bastrykin for his words about attackers in Dagestan and Rostov-on-Don

  The hostage taking in the Rostov SIZO (pre-trial prison) and the attacks in Dagestan were committed by "Islamists," Alexander Bastrykin, the Chairman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), has stated and supported the idea of banning niqabs (long garments worn by some Muslim women in order to cover their entire body and face, excluding their eyes).

June 30, 2024 23:48

• Circassian activist Martin Kochesoko* treats his criminal prosecution as unjustified

  Martin Kochesoko*, an activist from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who had moved to Europe, has treated his criminal prosecution in Russia for evading the duties of a foreign agent as unjustified.

June 30, 2024 22:44

• Court in Dagestan approves verdict to law enforcers for kidnapping and torture

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has refused to commute the sentences passed to five law enforcers who figured in the case of kidnapping and torture, and replaced the conditional imprisonment of one of the convicts for real one.

June 30, 2024 21:39

• Court arrests Krasnodar violinist for slogan in support of Ukraine

  The Leninsky District Court of Krasnodar has arrested for days Marina Nasonova, a violinist of the Kuban Symphony Orchestra, for a phrase in support of Ukraine she has posted in the messenger.

June 30, 2024 19:31

• Maria Smelaya demands efficient inquiry into her son's kidnapping

  Maria Smelaya, a resident of Krasnodar, has complained that officials from the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) are passing her complaint about her husband's kidnapping of their common son to each other and would not investigate the case.

June 29, 2024 23:54

• Cassation Court refuses to commute Nozdrinov's sentence

  The sentence to Alexander Nozdrinov, a journalist and blogger from the Krasnodar Territory, sentenced to 8.5 of freedom deprivation within the case of fakes about the Russian Army, has been upheld.

June 29, 2024 22:36

• Court in Volgograd finds search of home of "Caucasian Knot" correspondent legal

  The Volgograd Court of Appeal (CoA) has upheld the court ruling that found the search conducted at the apartment of Vyacheslav Yaschenko, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, as legitimate. The CoA has rejected the defence's arguments.

June 29, 2024 22:28

• Friday namaz in Astrakhan mosque ends in detentions

  In Astrakhan, law enforcers blocked the exits from the Red Mosque and checked believers' documents; some Muslims were put into buses, believers have reported.

June 29, 2024 19:47

• Krasnodar: Church Court bans pacifist priest from serving

  The Church Court of the Ekaterinodar and Kuban Diocese has banned Archpriest Andrei Drugai from priestly service; Andrei left his parish due to disagreement with the position of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) on the issue of the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine.

June 29, 2024 18:56

• Activist Marina Melikhova calls her criminal case political persecution

  The court of appeal upheld the sentence of Marina Melikhova, a resident of Krasnodar, convicted under the article on discrediting of the Russian Armed Forces. The activist claimed that she was subjected to political persecution for her pacifist position and criticism of the country’s authorities.

June 29, 2024 18:25

• Astrakhan Region resident suspected of discrediting Russian Armed Forces

  Vitaly Zhuravlyov from the Akhtubinsky District became a suspect in a criminal case on discrediting of the Russian Armed Forces.

June 29, 2024 17:24

• Three Jehovah’s Witnesses* from Novocherkassk sentenced to imprisonment

  A court sentenced Garegin Khachaturyan, Gevorg Yeritsyan, and Lyubov Galitsyna, Jehovah’s Witnesses* from Novocherkassk, to various terms of imprisonment, finding them guilty of extremism.

June 28, 2024 23:38

• Experts on Caucasus point to Kadyrov's violation of Adats

  If Chechen authorities introduce a rule that the entire clan should respond for a militant's actions, the republic will be overwhelmed by a wave of blood feud declarations. Ramzan Kadyrov's words contradict the Sharia Law and Adats; and his very behaviour is dictated by the anxiety after the militants' attacks committed in the neighbouring Dagestan, experts on the Caucasus have suggested.

June 28, 2024 23:04

• Over 600 support petition to investigate Suleimanova's case

  Within 1.5 days, the petition demanding to take control over the inquiry into the murder of Seda Suleimanova, a native of Chechnya, was signed by 630 people.

June 28, 2024 21:16

• Blogger Alibekov complains about obstacles in communicating with family

  Askhabali Alibekov, a native of Dagestan, accused of using violence against a law enforcer, has stated that he is deprived of telephone conversations with his relatives, and his letters were not sent. He has asked to consider his case in a special manner, explaining that he wants to return to his family.

June 28, 2024 19:45

• Zarema Musaeva repeatedly refused in CER

  The Shali City Court has for the second time dismissed a request for the conditional early relief of Zarema Musaeva. The court justified its refusal by the fact that the woman had not compensated for damages in the case on fraud and was placed on preventive registration in a penal colony.

June 28, 2024 17:52

• Kremlin comments on Kadyrov’s statement about blood feud against relatives of militants

  The official Kremlin has no doubt about Ramzan Kadyrov’s statements concerning tough methods of fighting militants and those who support them, announces Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov.

June 28, 2024 17:08

• Case on sabotage of Novosibirsk teenagers resembles similar cases in Southern Russia

  Parents of the teenagers detained in Novosibirsk for setting fire to relay cabinets, a cell phone station, and an SU-24 aircraft believe that the case has been falsified. Investigators instituted similar cases in Southern Russia, although the cases contain signs of provocations from law enforcers, and the person who ordered the crimes remains unidentified, a lawyer notes.

June 27, 2024 23:51

• Social media users outraged by Kadyrov's threats to families of suspects of attacks on law enforcers

  Amid the militants' attacks committed in Dagestan, the head of Chechnya has called for a "hard response" to attacks on law enforcers, by killing all the perpetrators' blood relatives.