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August 11, 2023 23:09

• Musaeva’s son complains about obstacles to correspondence with his mother

  Zarema Musaeva did not respond to four letters, and her son attributes the delay to censorship. The law does not provide for restrictions on sending and receiving letters, but if a person is being kept in a punishment cell, he or she may be deprived of the right to correspond with people, notes lawyer Abusupyan Gaitaev.

August 11, 2023 15:49

• Kuban deputy fined for discrediting Russian Army

  A court in the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river) has fined Sergey Detochkin, a local deputy, treating his statements made at the funeral of a mobilized military serviceman as discrediting the Russian Army. The deputy called himself a victim of a slander.

August 10, 2023 22:57

• Makhachkala residents angered by problems with energy supply

  In Makhachkala, the long absence of electricity has affected entrepreneurs, and city residents complained that power outages led to a shutdown of water supply. General Prosecutor Igor Krasnov reacted to massive power outages in Dagestan by instructing his subordinates to find the causes of what was happening.

August 10, 2023 22:14

• Volgograd resident from LPR brigade goes to court to request medical assistance and payments

  Tlegen Islyamgaliev, a resident of Volgograd, volunteered for a brigade of the LPR (Lugansk People’s Republic) and was injured in the hostility zone. However, a hospital in Volgograd refused to make surgery for him. Tlegen Islyamgaliev demands surgery and combat payments, which he has not received, his lawyer Nikolai Lutsenko reports.

August 10, 2023 19:31

• Natives of Dagestan and Chechnya complain about torture in Ulyanovsk colony

  The staff of the colony located in the Ulyanovsk Region have forced Muslim prisoners from Dagestan and Chechnya to shave off their beards, tortured them and confiscated their personal belongings, human rights defenders have reported.

August 10, 2023 18:25

• Zurich protesters demand to cancel Chechen Ali Bataev's deportation

  Members of the Chechen Diaspora have held a rally in Zurich, during which they called on Swiss authorities not to deport Ali Bataev, a native of Chechnya, to Russia, since he is expected to be persecuted in his homeland.

August 10, 2023 18:18

• Propagandists present Yangulbaev's relative as volunteer

  Khasan Yangulbaev has volunteered for the special military operation (SMO) and completed a full training course at the Russian Special Forces University.

August 09, 2023 21:13

• Znamensk resident requests compensation for being mobilized

  A resident of the Astrakhan Region, who was declared unfit for the military service by a military medical commission, filed a claim for moral damages of 10 million roubles for being illegally mobilized.

August 09, 2023 20:25

• Social media users outraged by calls of “Chechenenergo” to save electricity

  The “Chechenenergo” Company should provide the necessary power instead of turning off the electricity during the hot weather and calling on residents to save electric power. This was a reaction by social media users in response to the company’s calls to save energy.

August 09, 2023 19:41

• Court in Astrakhan toughens Albagachiev's custody regime

  Following the presentation of the Astrakhan corrective colony IK-10, the court has changed the custody regime for Abdul-Malik Albagachiev, a prisoner from Ingushetia, for the prison one. The decision will be appealed against, Irina Biryukova, an advocate, has informed.

August 09, 2023 17:12

• After receiving response from Moscow, disabled woman from Sochi loses hope for justice

  An official from the Russian presidential administration has promised Guzel Gilmanova, a disabled woman from childhood from Sochi, who has been on the waiting list for housing for 35 years, to assist in obtaining an apartment in the near future, but in his written response he said that local authorities were not providing her with an apartment on legal grounds.

August 09, 2023 14:47

• Participation of Chechen Ombudsman in solving problems of Chechens in Dagestan does not aggravate territorial disputes

  By promising to solve the problems of residents of the Kemsi-Yurt village, the authorities of the Khasavyurt District tried to appease Chechen natives amid the current political situation, believes Ruslan Kutaev, the president of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations.

August 08, 2023 23:12

• Kadyrov announces number of fighters sent to Ukraine

  Since the start of the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, a total of 29,000 fighters have been sent to the SMO zone from Chechnya, including 13,000 volunteers, Ramzan Kadyrov has announced.

August 08, 2023 23:09

• Four Yangulbaevs' relatives sent to Ukraine

  In Chechnya, law enforcers have detained a brother of Saidi Yangulbaev, a former Russian federal judge, and three of his nephews and sent them to the special military operation (SMO) zone, Abubakar Yangulbaev, a lawyer, has informed.

August 08, 2023 19:11

• Volgograd resident fined for discrediting Russian Army for his comment in the messenger

  A comment posted in the Telegram became the reason for drawing up an administrative protocol on discrediting the Russian Army against Daniil Rogachov, a resident of Volgograd.

August 08, 2023 16:34

• Krasnodar resident sentenced for fake news about Russian army recognized as political prisoner

  The “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial” human rights project recognized as a political prisoner Alexander Somryakov, a resident of Krasnodar, who was sentenced to six years of imprisonment in a penal colony for his posts about the actions of Russian troops in Ukraine.

August 07, 2023 23:58

• Woman from Grozny publicly reprimanded for her video criticizing new airport construction

  Marina Sotskova, a Russian-speaking resident of the Grozny village of Vozrozhdeniye, filmed a video in which she expressed her concern that hazardous waste would be dumped into a local river through a pipe that was being laid from the airport.

August 07, 2023 22:57

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of July 31-August 6, 2023

  Explosions in the Black Sea, tragedy in Georgia, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, persecution of opposition in Azerbaijan, and official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 31-August 6, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

August 07, 2023 19:37

• After being beaten in Maykop, activist Roman Taganov hospitalized

  Doctors have diagnosed traumas to activist Roman Taganov, who was hospitalized in the city of Maykop after being beaten up there. The attacker demanded to stop placing his posts in the social network.

August 07, 2023 15:11

• Monuments to Akhmat Kadyrov in Kazakhstan attacked by vandals

  In Kazakhstan, in the village of Malaya Saran, unknown vandals have destroyed the memorial sign dedicated to Akhmat Kadyrov, the father of the current Chechen leader and the first president of the republic. Offensive inscriptions appeared on another monument in the village.