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May 07, 2024 17:02

• Practice of public apologies is commonplace for Chechen authorities

  Authorities of Chechnya have initiated the practice of public apologies; however, now law enforcers and ordinary residents in different Russian regions are resorting to this practice, analysts have commented on the video with an apology of a girl from Krasnodar and the author of a joke about Chechen women.

May 06, 2024 23:33

• Journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova detained for post about attack on Nalchik

  Investigators have accused Nadezhda Kevorkova, a journalist, a defence witness in the case of the attack on Nalchik, of justifying terrorism. The reason was in her repost of the journalist Orkhan Djemal's text about this attack and her publication about the "Taliban"* movement.

May 06, 2024 22:03

• Parents of missing athlete Tsomartova ask to move inquiry to Moscow

  Investigators in Dagestan are inefficient in investigating the disappearance of the athlete Anna Tsomartova, the girl's parents have stated in their appeals to the director of the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) and the senator from North Ossetia; they have asked to transfer the case to investigators in Moscow.

May 06, 2024 20:45

• Convicted journalist Alexander Nozdrinov transferred to a colony in Kuban

  Alexander Nozdrinov, a journalist and blogger from Kuban (the Krasnodar Territory), convicted of spreading fakes about the Russian Army, was transferred to a colony in the town of Khadyzhensk. This was reported by the human rights project "OVD-Info"*.

May 06, 2024 18:59

• Rights defenders declare Leniye Umerova as political prisoner

  The criminal prosecution of Leniye Umerova, a Crimean Tatar woman, detained at a checkpoint in North Ossetia and accused of espionage, contradicts the Geneva Convention for the Protection of Civilians, the human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial" has stated.

May 06, 2024 18:07

• Contract serviceman from Krasnodar Territory sent to penal colony for three years for escaping from service

  The Krasnodar Garrison Military Court has sentenced Artyom Sluzhilov, a military serviceman, who was found guilty of leaving his unit without permission during the mobilization period, to three years in penal colony.

May 04, 2024 22:55

• Residents of Stavropol Territory apologize for burning New Testament

  A video with an apology from two participants in the incident with the burning of the New Testament in the Stavropol Territory was posted by Governor Vladimir Vladimirov. The young men have admitted their guilt and promised not to do this again.

May 04, 2024 22:09

• Advocate complains about denial of Zarema Musaeva's treatment

  In his complaint to the Chechen Prosecutor, Alexander Savin, one of Zarema Musaeva's advocates, has stated that she had been denied due medical treatment for several months, despite the obvious deterioration in her health.

May 04, 2024 21:36

• Dagestani Omar Murtazaliev returned from SIZO to penal colony

  They plan to transfer Omar Murtazaliev, a native of Dagestan, to another correctional institution, but in the meantime he has been returned to the penal colony in the Kurgan Region, where he was held earlier, his advocate has informed.

May 04, 2024 20:08

• Karachais dispute about rehabilitation outcomes of repressed nations

  Some Karachai activists believe that the political rehabilitation of Karachais is over. Their opponents object claiming that the payments for the lost property were grossly inadequate.

May 04, 2024 18:08

• Court releases Malgobek law enforcers accused of extortion

  Three policemen from Ingushetia, accused of using violence against a detainee and extortion, have been released. The Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia has explained that the period specified by law for the preliminary investigation had expired and their further detention is illegal.

May 03, 2024 23:38

• In Rostov Region, mobilized man fined for trying to give bribe not to go to SMO

  The Novocherkassk garrison military court found Maxim Shirin, who was mobilized in October 2022, guilty of giving a bribe. The court recognized that the man tried to avoid being sent to a combat zone through bribery and to gain protection at service.

May 03, 2024 23:08

• Karachay-Cherkessia marks National Revival Day with memorial events

  Participants of an official event in Karachaevsk, dedicated to the Karachay People Revival Day, paid tribute to the memory of those perished during the years of deportation. Book and photo exhibitions were opened in the republic on the occasion of the 67th anniversary of the return of Karachay people from exile.

May 03, 2024 21:47

• Volgograd activist Yevgeny Kochegin* fined under law on foreign agents

  Yevgeny Kochegin*, an activist from Volgograd, has been fined for failure to mark his posts on a personal Telegram channel as a foreign agent. The above is reported by the “Dozor Volgograd” Telegram channel.

May 03, 2024 21:03

• ICRF reports detention of three suspects of insulting believers' feelings in Stavropol Territory

  Three residents of the town of Novoaleksandrovsk have been detained for publicly burning the New Testament down; they are suspected of insulting believers' feelings and hooliganism, investigators have reported.

May 03, 2024 19:48

• Native of Chechnya dies after being beaten in colony for life prisoners

  Arsan Mukaev, a native of Chechnya, sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of killing law enforcers, has died in his penal colony after being beaten up.

May 03, 2024 18:58

• Court refuses to commute sentence to pensioner from Shakhty within fake case

  The Rostov Regional Court has upheld the sentence of Evgenia Maiboroda, a 72-year-old resident of the city of Shakhty, sentenced to 5.5 years in penal colony on charges of spreading fake news about the Russian Army and calls for extremism.

May 03, 2024 17:47

• Court agrees to question expert on case of human rights defender Igor Nagavkin

  The district court has granted the request lodged by Igor Nagavkin, a Volgograd human rights defender, to interrogate the author of the examination of his statements, which became the basis for the criminal case against him on disorganization of the work of the SIZO (pre-trial prison).

May 02, 2024 23:30

• Leila Gatagazheva transferred to house arrest

  A court decided to place under house arrest Leila Gatagazheva, a native of Ingushetia, accused of involvement in formations of Syrian militants. Leila Gatagazheva returned to Malgobek from a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Pyatigorsk, human rights defenders reported.

May 02, 2024 22:49

• Police succeed in seeking punishment for Krasnodar resident for posting rainbow flag

  In Krasnodar, a court reconsidered the case instituted against Viktor Morozov for his post on a social network with a photograph of a rainbow flag. Initially, the court did not find any offense in the post, but later agreed with the position voiced by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).