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September 29, 2024 22:29

• Mikhail Balabanov reports his whereabouts

  Mikhail Balabanov, a native of the city of Kazan, convicted of preparing to set fire to a military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) in the Stavropol Territory, has written to his parents that he had been taken to the Chelyabinsk SIZO (pre-trial prison), human rights defenders have informed.

September 29, 2024 21:56

• Court upholds verdict to three Jehovah's Witnesses* from Novocherkassk

  The Rostov Regional Court has upheld the sentence of Jehovah's Witnesses* Garegin Khachaturyan, Gevorg Eritsyan and Lyubov Galitsyna, who had been earlier found guilty within an extremism case.

September 29, 2024 21:08

• Astrakhan resident apologies publicly for pistol shooting

  The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has posted a video in which a resident of Astrakhan made a public apology to townspeople for firing a traumatic pistol when leaving a cafe with his friends.

September 28, 2024 23:34

• Another case of Makhachkala riots reaches court in Stavropol Territory

  The Grachevsky District Court of the Stavropol Territory has begun considering the case of eight residents of Dagestan accused of involvement in the riots at the Makhachkala Airport.

September 28, 2024 21:58

• Officials in Novolaksky District of Dagestan suspected of land frauds for resettlers

  In the Novolaksky District, under forged documents, officials have transferred 40 land plots, intended for the resettlement of Lak nationals from the former Aukhov District, to strangers.

September 28, 2024 21:24

• Defence succeeds in seeking release of person arrested in “Wildberries” case

  The court of appeal has released Adam Vedzizhev from administrative punishment. The man was convicted of failure to obey the police after a conflict related to the attempted seizure of the “Wildberries” Company. In the complaint against the arrest, the defence mentioned the Adam Vedzizhev’s health state.

September 28, 2024 19:31

• Listeners outraged by closure of blogger Kharchenko*'s trial

  Despite the defence's protest, a court in Gelendjik has ruled, at the request of the suffered party and the prosecution, to conduct the trial of Vadim Kharchenko*, a blogger, behind closed doors. Visitors to the court believe that this ruling is intended to conceal the absence of proofs for the presented charges and case falsifications.

September 28, 2024 17:39

• Rescuers report 10 killed at fuelling station in Makhachkala

  Ten people were killed by an explosion of a fuelling station in Makhachkala, including two children, the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has reported. Seven other victims were hospitalized, the Dagestani Ministry of Public Health (MPH) has informed.

September 27, 2024 23:41

• Circassians demand apology from Turkish TV channel

  Circassian activists have held a protest action outside the "Halk.TV" Turkish TV channel, demanding an apology for statements about Circassians' involvement in child abuse.

September 27, 2024 22:11

• Four persons killed in explosion at petrol station in Makhachkala

  An explosion occurred at a petrol station located on a road in the Karabudakhkent District, the Makhachkala City Mayoralty reported. Four persons were killed in the explosion, the Dagestani Minister for Public Health announced.

September 27, 2024 21:56

• Resident of Rostov Region sentenced for setting fire to military commissariat

  The Morozovsk District Court has treated the attempt to set fire to the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) as hooliganism and sentenced Ivan Svistov to one year and eight months in penal colony.

September 27, 2024 21:47

• Court denies compensation to KBR convict for HIV infection

  The Oktiabrsky District Court of Novorossiysk has dismissed Yuri Mikhailov's lawsuit for compensation for the fact that after staying in jails in Novorossiysk and in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), he was infected with HIV and hepatitis. This was reported by his advocate, Svetlana Toreeva.

September 27, 2024 19:52

• Human rights defenders recognize Gudermes resident, sentenced to life imprisonment, as political prisoner

  Mekhidi Timerbulatov, a resident of Gudermes, has been sentenced to life imprisonment on the charges of involvement in terror acts in Chechnya based on falsified materials, the “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial” human rights project has stated.

September 26, 2024 23:32

• Caucasian experts: it is too early to talk about possible blood feud caused by incident at “Wildberries” Company’s office

  According to the Vainakh traditions, blood feud is declared after all the facts have been established. Then specific names must be publicly announced and the arguments of the family clan against whom the blood feud is declared must be listened to.

September 26, 2024 22:23

• CE’s Committee of Ministers calls on Russian authorities to reconsider case against Chechen human rights defender Kutaev

  The criminal case against Ruslan Kutaev, a human rights defender from Chechnya, sentenced to four years of imprisonment in a case on illegal drug trafficking, violated the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights, and the case should be reconsidered, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CE) announces.

September 26, 2024 20:48

• Chechen native Magomed Alkhanov sentenced in case on attack on Pskov paratroopers

  In Rostov-on-Don, a military court sentenced Magomed Alkhanov, a native of Chechnya, to ten years of imprisonment on the charges of involvement in the attack of a militant detachment led by Shamil Basaev and Amir Khattab on Pskov paratroopers in 2000.

September 26, 2024 19:40

• Native of Chechnya continues trend of escapes by victims of domestic violence

  A story of a woman from Chechnya who fled domestic violence and was put on the wanted list by her relatives has continued a series of similar cases, human rights defenders note. By leaving her children in Chechnya, the woman gave the family additional leverage for blackmail, they emphasized.

September 26, 2024 18:31

• Zarema Musaeva stays in condition close to critical, her advocate reports

  Zarema Musaeva’s blood sugar has approached a critically high level, drug therapy in a penal colony is not able to help the woman, and the court has postponed for a month the consideration of the appeal against the refusal in the conditional early relief for Zarema Musaeva.

September 25, 2024 23:54

• Teenager reports violations in arson case of military commissariat in Rostov-on-Don

  The teenager convicted of arson of the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) has stated that he had given no confession, but signed the text prepared by the investigator. The Russian Supreme Court (SC) has found no violations and upheld the sentence.

September 25, 2024 23:23

• Vladislav Bakalchuk tells about Kadyrov's role in Wildberries business

  Eight years ago, representatives of the head of Chechnya helped the Bakalchuks resolve business problems and last summer Vladislav Bakalchuk decided to contact Ramzan Kadyrov directly, Vladislav, a co-owner of Wildberries, said himself, adding that he is alive and at large thanks to support from Chechnya.