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June 29, 2024 22:36

• Court in Volgograd finds search of home of "Caucasian Knot" correspondent legal

  The Volgograd Court of Appeal (CoA) has upheld the court ruling that found the search conducted at the apartment of Vyacheslav Yaschenko, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, as legitimate. The CoA has rejected the defence's arguments.

June 29, 2024 22:28

• Friday namaz in Astrakhan mosque ends in detentions

  In Astrakhan, law enforcers blocked the exits from the Red Mosque and checked believers' documents; some Muslims were put into buses, believers have reported.

June 29, 2024 19:47

• Krasnodar: Church Court bans pacifist priest from serving

  The Church Court of the Ekaterinodar and Kuban Diocese has banned Archpriest Andrei Drugai from priestly service; Andrei left his parish due to disagreement with the position of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) on the issue of the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine.

June 29, 2024 18:56

• Activist Marina Melikhova calls her criminal case political persecution

  The court of appeal upheld the sentence of Marina Melikhova, a resident of Krasnodar, convicted under the article on discrediting of the Russian Armed Forces. The activist claimed that she was subjected to political persecution for her pacifist position and criticism of the country’s authorities.

June 29, 2024 18:25

• Astrakhan Region resident suspected of discrediting Russian Armed Forces

  Vitaly Zhuravlyov from the Akhtubinsky District became a suspect in a criminal case on discrediting of the Russian Armed Forces.

June 29, 2024 17:24

• Three Jehovah’s Witnesses* from Novocherkassk sentenced to imprisonment

  A court sentenced Garegin Khachaturyan, Gevorg Yeritsyan, and Lyubov Galitsyna, Jehovah’s Witnesses* from Novocherkassk, to various terms of imprisonment, finding them guilty of extremism.

June 28, 2024 23:38

• Experts on Caucasus point to Kadyrov's violation of Adats

  If Chechen authorities introduce a rule that the entire clan should respond for a militant's actions, the republic will be overwhelmed by a wave of blood feud declarations. Ramzan Kadyrov's words contradict the Sharia Law and Adats; and his very behaviour is dictated by the anxiety after the militants' attacks committed in the neighbouring Dagestan, experts on the Caucasus have suggested.

June 28, 2024 23:04

• Over 600 support petition to investigate Suleimanova's case

  Within 1.5 days, the petition demanding to take control over the inquiry into the murder of Seda Suleimanova, a native of Chechnya, was signed by 630 people.

June 28, 2024 21:16

• Blogger Alibekov complains about obstacles in communicating with family

  Askhabali Alibekov, a native of Dagestan, accused of using violence against a law enforcer, has stated that he is deprived of telephone conversations with his relatives, and his letters were not sent. He has asked to consider his case in a special manner, explaining that he wants to return to his family.

June 28, 2024 19:45

• Zarema Musaeva repeatedly refused in CER

  The Shali City Court has for the second time dismissed a request for the conditional early relief of Zarema Musaeva. The court justified its refusal by the fact that the woman had not compensated for damages in the case on fraud and was placed on preventive registration in a penal colony.

June 28, 2024 17:52

• Kremlin comments on Kadyrov’s statement about blood feud against relatives of militants

  The official Kremlin has no doubt about Ramzan Kadyrov’s statements concerning tough methods of fighting militants and those who support them, announces Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov.

June 28, 2024 17:08

• Case on sabotage of Novosibirsk teenagers resembles similar cases in Southern Russia

  Parents of the teenagers detained in Novosibirsk for setting fire to relay cabinets, a cell phone station, and an SU-24 aircraft believe that the case has been falsified. Investigators instituted similar cases in Southern Russia, although the cases contain signs of provocations from law enforcers, and the person who ordered the crimes remains unidentified, a lawyer notes.

June 27, 2024 23:51

• Social media users outraged by Kadyrov's threats to families of suspects of attacks on law enforcers

  Amid the militants' attacks committed in Dagestan, the head of Chechnya has called for a "hard response" to attacks on law enforcers, by killing all the perpetrators' blood relatives.

June 27, 2024 23:14

• Resident of North Ossetia treats compensation for beating up by law enforcer as insufficient

  Soslan Dzidakhanov disagrees with the amount of compensation for his suffered moral harm that the Ardonsky Court awarded him for being beaten up by a law enforcer. In the Russian judicial practice, it is customary to decrease the compensation amount; and the resonance from Tskaev's case has partially contributed to a decrease in the number of tortures in the republic, Vladimir Tskaev's widow and his advocate have stressed.

June 27, 2024 21:42

• Analysts: European sanctions seem to be formality for Kadyrov Foundation

  Fundraising for the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation is carried out mainly in Russia and mainly in cash, so sanctions imposed by the European Union (EU) are not able to significantly affect the activities of the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation, analysts note.

June 27, 2024 19:54

• Omarov brothers apologize for militants’ attack

  In their video message, five Omarov brothers asked for forgiveness from the families of the people who fell victim to the militants’ attack in Dagestan.

June 27, 2024 17:37

• Court approves sentence for employees of Rostov prison hospital

  The Rostov Regional Court has upheld the verdict against doctors of the prison hospital in a case on abuse of power with the use of violence, the “Kommersant” reports.

June 26, 2024 23:37

• Court leaves journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova under arrest

  The Moscow City Court (MCC) has refused to satisfy the defence's protest against the arrest of the journalist, Nadezhda Kevorkova, the court's press service has informed.

June 26, 2024 21:46

• Militants' attacks in Makhachkala and Derbent scare tourists away

  After militants have committed their attacks in Makhachkala and Derbent, the number of tour bookings to Dagestan has decreased, the Russian Union of Tourist Industry (RUTI) has informed. In their turn, tourist operators suggest that tour sales will gradually normalize.

June 26, 2024 21:26

• Rights defender Igor Nagavkin sentenced conditionally

  A court in the Volgograd Region has sentenced Igor Nagavkin to two years probation, finding him guilty of disorganizing the work of the SIZO (pre-trial prison). He intends to seek recognition of his innocence.