Krasnodar Territory

June 07, 2025 16:57

• Case against Kuban pensioners-underground fighters transferred to military court

  The Uspensky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory did not pass a sentence on Nikolai Nabiev, Sergey Kuzovenko, and Marina Zakharova, accused of creating an illegal armed formation (IAF), and transferred the case to the Southern District Military Court for consideration.

June 06, 2025 17:16

• Kuban resident fined for his post about May 9 celebrations

  The court has sentenced Grigory Belik, a resident of Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), to a fine of 176,000 roubles for his critical assessment of the May 9 celebrations. The man has emphasized that he treats the Victory Day itself a holy holiday.

June 06, 2025 15:13

• Sochi residents ask court not to arrest Tatiana Polivanova

  About a dozen people whom Tatiana Polivanova helped defend their rights to land plots in litigation with officials came to support her at a court hearing on the issue of a pre-trial restriction measure, but the activist was not brought to the Sochi court. Those gathered signed an appeal in defence of Tatiana Polivanova.

June 05, 2025 18:40

• Rights defenders treat Valko’s verdict as incorrect law interpretation

  A court in Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) has explained the lenient sentence in the case of the beating up of Fyodor Valko by the fact that the defendants had no "desire to cause particular sufferings to the victim"; however, human rights defenders treat the interpretation of the law by the court as erroneous. The convicted law enforcers have appealed against the sentence, while Valko will seek to recognise their actions as torture.

June 05, 2025 15:47

• Activist Tatiana Polivanova detained in Sochi in criminal case

  The police conducted a search at the home of activist Tatiana Polivanova in Sochi and took her to an IVS (temporary detention facility). The court is preparing to pronounce a pre-trial restriction measure with regard to the activist, accused of acting as an intermediary in the transfer of a bribe. The relatives of the activist associate the prosecution with the Tatiana Polivanova’s public activities.

June 03, 2025 18:35

• Analysts assess prospects for switching to new self-government model for regions of Southern Russia

  The switch to a single-level model of self-government is unfit for the republics of Northern Caucasus, as it breaks the established political alignments. However, even in the event of a transition to a new model, the negative effect for the republics of Southern Russia will be less than for other regions.

June 02, 2025 16:43

• Anapa townspeople demand to speed up fuel oil pumping out from sunken tanker parts

  Authorities are delaying the liquidation of the environmental disaster without addressing the root cause thereof, Anapa residents have stated in their video appeal addressed to federal authorities, demanding to speed up the pumping out of oil products and lifting the sunken parts of the tankers.

June 01, 2025 17:31

• Due to fuel oil spill, Anapa loses about half of its tourists

  Amid the huge spill of fuel oil (mazut) in the Black Sea, the hotel occupancy rate in the Russian city of Anapa has decreased by 50% compared to the same last year’s period. Some hotels are in dire straits because they cannot return money to tourists for cancelled bookings, said a source from the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR).

May 31, 2025 18:13

• Synagogue in Sochi attacked

  In Sochi, a man with a hammer tried to enter the synagogue building and threw stones at it. The attacker has been detained.

May 30, 2025 13:53

• Kuban underground pensioners refuse to plead guilty

  Nikolai Nabiev, Sergey Kuzovenko and Marina Zakharova, accused of creating an illegal armed formation (IAF), gave their final statements in court. None of them has pleaded guilty.

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