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April 26, 2024 22:45

• Court tightens sentence of Dagestani native Magomed Atimagomedov in case on attack on warders

  Magomed Atimagomedov, a native of Dagestan, convicted in a case on attacking warders from a Kalmyk penal colony and killing one of them, has his 25-year sentence replaced with life imprisonment.

April 26, 2024 20:07

• Volgograd blogger Prokudin sent to SIZO

  In Volgograd, a court arrested trash streamer Pavel Prokudin, accused of insulting Russian militaries. The defence asked the court to place Pavel Prokudin under house arrest.

April 26, 2024 18:34

• KBR woman asks to provide medical treatment to her convicted son

  In his colony, Eduard Kulbaev, a convict, is not receiving efficient treatment for diabetes, his mother, Marina Atabieva, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), has informed and called on the prosecutor's office to intervene in the situation.

April 25, 2024 23:10

• Rights defenders report that relatives of British citizen detained in Chechnya are not allowed to him

  Law enforcers would not let relatives of Magomed Abubakarov, a British citizen, who was wounded during detention in Urus-Martan and charged under two criminal articles, to see him, an activist of the "Memorial" Centre for Human Rights Defence* has informed.

April 25, 2024 21:57

• Son reports hospitalization of Zarema Musaeva

  Zarema Musaeva's health condition in the Argun penal colony where she is kept, has worsened sharply; she lost the ability to move, after which she was hospitalized, Abubakar Yangulbaev, a lawyer and one of Zarema's son, has informed.

April 25, 2024 21:33

• Three fines imposed on Stavropol resident for discrediting Russian Army upheld

  In the Stavropol Territory, the appellate instance has upheld three rulings on the fines imposed on Vitaly Fedorenko, who was found guilty of discrediting the Russian Army.

April 25, 2024 18:51

• Convict in Kalmykia demands compensation for being HIV-infected

  Yuri Mikhailov, who is serving his sentence in Elista, after staying in the Novorossiysk detention centre and the colonies of Kabardino-Balkaria and Kalmykia, became HIV-infected and sick with hepatitis. He demanded compensation for inadequate custody conditions.

April 25, 2024 17:34

• Lawyers assess prospects of punishing "Kadyrov's general" Tsakaev

  General Alikhan Tsakaev should face administrative and criminal liability, but the outcomes of the check conducted by the Main Department for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has failed to fix the General's attempt to attack law enforcers, which is seen in the video.

April 24, 2024 22:24

• Stavropol resident detained for attempting to set fire to military registration and enlistment office

  A man has been detained for attempting to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office in Stavropol. Scammers took three loans in his name and promised to write off the debts after arson of the military registration and enlistment office, Vladimir Vladimirov, Governor of the Stavropol Territory, reports in his Telegram channel.

April 24, 2024 21:06

• Krasnodar woman sentenced to compulsory labour for dancing in cemetery

  Sofia Burger, a resident of Krasnodar, has been sentenced to 440 hours of compulsory labour. The Leninsky District Court has found her guilty of insulting believers' feelings by dancing in a cemetery.

April 24, 2024 20:54

• Rostov prison doctors try to convince court of victims’ unreliability

  Employees of the Rostov tuberculosis hospital of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN), who challenged the verdict in the case on torture of patients, called the testimonies of the victims unreliable, citing their illnesses, reports lawyer Rustam Khanmurzaev.

April 24, 2024 20:27

• Rights defender Igor Nagavkin released from SIZO

  Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender, whom the Volgograd Regional Court decided to release from custody, has left the territory of the SIZO (pre-trial prison) and went home to the town of Kalach-on-Don, stating that he would seek full rehabilitation.

April 24, 2024 18:21

• Analysts doubt involvement of armed underground in incident in Karachaevsk

  An attack on policemen in Karachaevsk, as a result of which two of them were killed, is not connected with the armed underground, since it has been practically eliminated in Northern Caucasus.

April 23, 2024 23:11

• Rights defender comments on court ruling to release Nagavkin

  The court ruling to release Igor Nagavkin, a Volgograd human rights defender, from custody is due to the fact that the judicial system would not admit its mistakes, Yulia Evdokimova, a lawyer and human rights defender, has explained.

April 23, 2024 21:43

• Volgograd blogger detained for insulting Russian militaries

  Pavel Prokudin, a trash streamer from Volgograd, suspected of insulting fighters at the special military operation (SMO), has been detained in an apartment in Penza registered in someone else's name. He asked for forgiveness and explained that he was drunk.

April 23, 2024 19:53

• Residents of Chechnya comment on authorities' reaction to Uspanov's death

  The Chechen society has no trust in the official version of Askhab Uspanov's suicide at the police station; this was stated by many Chechen residents.

April 23, 2024 18:25

• Krasnodar resident fined ten times within two months for his comment in messenger

  A court recognized a comment posted on Telegram by Andrei Maksimov, a resident of Krasnodar, as a call to violate the territorial integrity of Russia. The Krasnodar resident has been fined for the tenth time since March.reports.

April 23, 2024 16:23

• SMO participants demand from authorities to react to beating of schoolgirl from Dagestan

  The Prosecutor’s Office for Saint Petersburg should check the video showing a schoolgirl from Dagestan being beaten by her schoolmates, the Ombudsman of Dagestan emphasizes.

April 22, 2024 22:36

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

  Chechen agenda, protests in Georgia, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, Armenia gives up villages and recognizes the Yazidi genocide, 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 April 15-21, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

April 22, 2024 22:35

• Volgograd blogger suspected of inciting hatred towards Russian Army

  Pavel Prokudin, a blogger from Volgograd, who spoke live about participants of the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, became a suspect in a criminal case on inciting hatred and enmity.