In Sochi, Imereti residents face electricity cut-off

September 21, 2024 18:58

• Anti-migration raids in Southern Russia are part of recruiting campaign of contract soldiers

  In Southern Russia, authorities have launched an agitation campaign, offering migrants from Central Asia and those who recently received Russian citizenship some remuneration for their consent to be sent to the special military operation (SMO) zone; otherwise these people are threatened with punishment.

September 21, 2024 18:37

• Anna Tsomartova's father fired from MIA for criticizing inquiry into her disappearance

  After criticizing law enforcing bodies for the inefficient inquiry into the disappearance of Anna Tsomartova, a North-Ossetian athlete, in Kaspiysk, her father Nikolai Tsomartov was fired from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for violating the ethic norms.

September 20, 2024 23:28

• Human rights defenders recognize blogger Askhabali Alibekov as political prisoner

  The charge of using violence against a policeman does not correspond to the circumstances of the blogger Askhabali Alibekov’s case. The authorities are forcing the blogger to stop his opposition activities by persecuting him, the “Support for political prisoners. Memorial” human rights project states.

September 20, 2024 23:13

• Natives of Ingushetia and Chechnya killed in shooting near “Wildberries” office in Moscow

  As a result of shooting which took place near an office of the “Wildberries” Company in Moscow, Islambek Elmurziev, a 28-year-old master of sports in freestyle wrestling from Ingushetia, and Adam Almazov, a 41-year-old deputy commander of the “Akhmat-1” OMON (riot police) battalion from Chechnya, have been killed, sources report.

September 20, 2024 22:25

• SC upholds sentence of Volgograd resident Paskar for setting fire to rug near FSB building

  The cassation court refused to grant an appeal lodged against the sentence of Igor Paskar, a resident of Volgograd, who was sentenced to 8.5 years of imprisonment for setting fire to a rug near an FSB building in Krasnodar. The above information has been reported by the “OVD-Info”* human rights project.