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July 27, 2024 19:05

• SAM calls on Astrakhan women to abandon niqabs

  The Muslim clergy of the Astrakhan Region has recommended that local women refrain from wearing niqabs in public places.

July 27, 2024 18:35

• Court refuses to remove "Memorial" CHRD* from register of foreign agents

  The "Memorial" Centre for Human Rights Defence (CHRD)* has challenged its inclusion into the register of foreign agents, but the Moscow Zamoskvoretsky District Court has refused to overturn it.

July 26, 2024 23:17

• Nikita Zhuravel refuses to challenge verdict in case on burning Koran

  The deadline for filing an appeal in the criminal case against Nikita Zhuravel expired, and he did not lodge an appeal against the verdict.

July 26, 2024 22:56

• Advocates comment on ECtHR's decision on Barakh Chemurziev's complaint of Ingush activist

  The decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the complaint of Barakh Chemurziev proves that innocent activists were convicted within the "Ingush case"; therefore, the ECtHR will make similar decisions on the statements of the other defendants, Chemurziev's advocates believe.

July 26, 2024 21:25

• Priest Viktor Pivovarov manages to defend his temple from authorities’ attempts to demolish it

  The court’s decision containing the refusal to demolish a temple in Slavyansk-on-Kuban has entered into force. The deadline for appeal by the authorities, who had earlier demanded that the temple be demolished, has passed.

July 26, 2024 18:50

• Krasnodar resident sentenced to long imprisonment term in high treason case

  A military court sentenced a resident of Krasnodar to eleven years of imprisonment for attempting to join a Ukrainian armed formation.

July 26, 2024 17:48

• Stavropol resident convicted of publishing photo with V symbol

  A resident of Stavropol, who had posted a photo from World War II with a V symbol in a social network, received a suspended sentence with two years of the trial period on charges of repeatedly demonstrating Nazi symbols.

July 25, 2024 22:36

• After announcing a public event, court sends Ukrainian citizen to deportation centre

  Alexander Gongadze Volny Ross, a Ukrainian citizen, who has served his sentence for organizing a wheelchair run in the town of Kamyshin, will be deported from Russia. He and his wife were fined for violating migration laws; and their deportation is expected next week despite the possibility of persecution in their homeland due to their pro-Russian position.

July 25, 2024 21:16

• Resident of Rostov Region arrested for six months for arson of military commissariat

  The Morozovsk District Court has placed Ivan Svistov in custody for six months, accusing him of hooliganism after attempting to set fire to the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office).

July 25, 2024 19:31

• Four figurants in riots at Uytash Airport released

  Four persons accused within the case of riots at the airport that broke out in October 2023 have been released from the Makhachkala SIZO (pre-trial prison).

July 24, 2024 23:55

• Analysts treat Chechen authorities' demands for apologies as selective

  Vakhid Ilyasov's apologies for the incident on a Mariupol beach were caused by the pressure of Chechen authorities, while those from Ramzan Kadyrov's retinue rarely apologize for much more serious offences, analysts have pointed out, noting that not all incidents involving natives of Chechnya committed at resorts attract attention of republic's authorities.

July 24, 2024 23:33

• Richest woman in Russia Tatiana Bakalchuk denies Kadyrov’s words about raider takeover of her “Wildberries” Company

  In her video message, Tatiana Bakalchuk, a founder of the “Wildberries” marketplace, refuted the words of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov about the raider takeover and obstacles in communicating with her husband and children.

July 24, 2024 22:52

• Men accused of pogrom mention their motives for coming to Uytash airport

  Magomed Omaraskhabov, accused in a case on pogrom, came to the airport in Makhachkala for family reasons, while another defendant Anvarbek Ataev came there out of curiosity, advocates stated.

July 24, 2024 22:10

• Kadyrov instructs State Duma member Delimkhanov to protect “Wildberries” Company

  The leader of Chechnya promised Vladislav Bakalchuk, a husband of the richest woman in Russia, that he would not let the Bakalchuk family be destroyed and would “go to the end” to stop the raider takeover of the “Wildberries” Company. Ramzan Kadyrov announced that he had given instructions on the case to Russian State Duma member Adam Delimkhanov.

July 24, 2024 17:55

• Social media users outraged by Chechen authorities' intercession for blogger Tamaev

  Akhmed Dudaev, the Minister for Press of Chechnya, has stood up for blogger Askhab Tamaev after Ekaterina Mizulina, the head of the "Safe Internet League", accused him of fraud. The intercession of republic's authorities for the person who resorts to threats and frauds looks dubious, social network users have pointed out.

July 23, 2024 23:16

• Court sentences Malik Gandaloev to 20 years in jail

  Malik Gandaloev, a native of Ingushetia, whom investigators treat as one of hostage-takers at the Rostov SIZO (pre-trial prison), has been sentenced to 20 years of freedom deprivation on charges of involvement in the "Islamic State" (IS)* and manufacturing explosives.

July 23, 2024 22:56

• KBR woman fined for disrespecting the anthem

  A court in the Chegem District has fined a local woman by 3000 roubles for refusing to stand during the playing of the Russian anthem. This is the ninth fine under this article after the publication of a video from a graduation at a Nalchik school in social networks.

July 23, 2024 21:15

• Rights defenders treat trials of Nalchik residents for anthem disrespect as excessive

  A refusal to stand up during the playing of the Russian anthem falls under administrative liability, but the cases initiated against graduates' parents in Nalchik for anthem disrespect are overblown and politicized, lawyers and human rights defenders have pointed out.

July 23, 2024 17:51

• Expert's conclusion exposes custom nature of case against oppositional politician Alexander Yefimov

  The expert's conclusion by Inna Vasilenko, Doctor of Philosophy, which the Prosecutor's Office (PO) presented at the trial of Alexander Yefimov, a member of the federal bureau of the "Yabloko" Party, is of a custom nature, lawyers have stated.

July 22, 2024 23:50

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of July 15-21, 2024

  Protests in Abkhazia, drone attacks in Rostov Region, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, fight against the law on foreign agents, 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 15-21, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.