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June 06, 2024 21:21

• Navalny supporter from Volgograd complains about propagandists' provocation

  In memory of politician, Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Telpuk, an activist, has laid flowers at the monument to victims of political repressions in Volgograd. According to Vladimir, he was filmed by the hosts of a local TV channel, Sergey Mazanov and Roman Potolovsky, who asked him provocative questions.

June 06, 2024 20:44

• Professor Khokonov suspended from work after being reinstated

  Murat Khokonov, who after his dismissal achieved reinstatement in his position at the Kabardino-Balkarian State University, said that he had received an order suspending him from work.

June 06, 2024 19:55

• Resident of Khasavyurt convicted in case on fakes about Russian Army

  In Khasavyurt, after reconsideration of a criminal case, a court sentenced Shakhban Abakargadjiev to five years of forced labour, finding him guilty of spreading fake news about Russian militaries. The “OVD-Info”* human rights project reported about the verdict to Shakhban Abakargadjiev on its website.

June 06, 2024 17:32

• In Krasnodar, solo picketer accused of discrediting Russian Army

  In Krasnodar, the police drew up a protocol under the article on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces against a man detained at a solo picket with a pacifist appeal near an administration building.

June 05, 2024 23:48

• Dozens come to support Elista Jehovah's Witnesses* in court

  About 30 people from different regions have come to the debate session on the case of three Jehovah's Witnesses* from Elista, accused of extremist activities.

June 05, 2024 22:35

• Case on Dagestani resident's involvement in "USSR"* sent to court

  The inquiry into the case of Kadi Gadjiev, a resident of Dagestan, whom investigators treat as a cell member of the extremist organization "Union of Rus' Slavic Forces"*, is over.

June 05, 2024 19:24

• Court recognizes investigators’ inaction in case of Stavropol Territory resident hit by a car

  A court concluded that an investigation into the case on a car hitting Sergey Sopnev, a resident of the Predgorny District, who as a result got his leg amputated and became disabled, was conducted ineffectively and led to a violation of the victim’s rights.

June 05, 2024 18:51

• Volgograd blogger Prokudin fined

  The court has fined Pavel Prokudin, a Volgograd blogger, by 60,000 roubles under administrative charges of discrediting the Russian Army and petty hooliganism.

June 05, 2024 16:20

• Pensioner fined for damaging a ballot in Sochi

  In Sochi, a court imposed a fine on pensioner Elena Yanmurzina in a criminal case for attempting to spoil ballots at a polling station.

June 04, 2024 23:52

• Second wife of Chechen resident accuses him of beating

  Alina Alekseitseva, the wife of a Chechen resident, has complained to human rights defenders that he was beating her and their children. Earlier, the man's other wife, Maria Smelaya, made similar complaints.

June 04, 2024 21:57

• Jehovah's Witness* from Akhtubinsk complains of torture in custody

  Rinat Kiramov, a Jehovah's Witness* from Akhtubinsk, who is serving his sentence for extremism, has complained that his cellmates had tortured him for several days, demanding that he slander other believers.

June 04, 2024 21:09

• Attempt to pass medical examination after being wounded turns into detention for Volgograd resident

  Employees of the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) have detained Alexei Gaun, a Volgograd resident, for unauthorized abandonment of his military unit, when he tried to undergo a medical examination after being seriously wounded in the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine.

June 04, 2024 18:52

• Lawyer points to protracting infection case of Kuban prisoner

  The consideration of the lawsuit lodged by Yuri Mikhailov, who was HIV infected while being kept at the Novorossiysk SIZO (pre-trial prison) and the colonies of Kabardino-Balkaria and Kalmykia, was again postponed due to the fact that SIZO bosses failed to provide the documents requested by the court.

June 04, 2024 18:09

• Case of pensioner from Gelendjik about discrediting Russian Army comes to court

  The pensioner is accused under the criminal article on discrediting Russian militaries.

June 03, 2024 23:49

• Nikah becomes cover up for early marriages in Northern Caucasus

  An author of the study “Forcibly Married” indicated that when she and her colleagues were preparing the study they had to operate only with the information on early marriages released by the “Rosstat” (Federal State Statistics Service), although in many cases, only a religious marriage is being concluded.

June 03, 2024 22:57

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of May 27-June 2, 2024

  Georgian parliament overcomes presidential veto, flooding in the Lori Province, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, news from Ingushetia, 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 May 27-June 2, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

June 03, 2024 22:44

• Rostov Region resident claims her sick husband forcibly sent to SMO zone

  Alexei Motorny from the Rostov Region was detained and forcibly sent to the special military operation zone, despite a heart attack he suffered, claimed his spouse Svetlana. The woman is seeking her husband’s return home.

June 03, 2024 21:47

• Activist Marina Melikhova released from SIZO

  Activist Marina Melikhova, who was sentenced for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces, was released from a SIZO (pre-trial prison) on June 1, the “OVD-Info”* reports.

June 03, 2024 18:08

• Rights defenders report that fathers from Northern Caucasus ignore court rulings in children-related disputes

  Even if the court rules to leave a child with the mother, fathers from North-Caucasian regions often kidnap their children and take them to their homeland, from where it is then difficult to return them, human rights defenders have in their comments on the story of Maria Smelaya, a Krasnodar resident.

June 03, 2024 17:55

• Volgograd journalist fined for his posts in social network

  A court in Volgograd has fined Stanislav Terentiev, a former editor-in-chief of the "Kolokol" (Bell) newspaper, finding him guilty of publicly displaying Nazi symbols. Stanislav refused to plead guilty and appealed against the court ruling.