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May 29, 2024 21:06

• Court refuses to commute sentences of three Ingush activists

  Barakh Chemurziev, Ismail Nalgiev and Bagaudin Khautiev, who had already served most of their eight-year sentences, have asked the court to replace their remaining prison terms with some sanction not related to freedom deprivation. The court in the Stavropol Territory, where they are in a penal colony, has refused to grant their motions.

May 29, 2024 18:49

• ECtHR awards compensations to members of Yangulbaev family

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ordered Russian authorities to pay compensations to Zarema Musaeva, Saidi Yangulbaev, her husband and a former Russian federal judge, and their daughter Aliya Yangulbaeva.

May 29, 2024 16:26

• Court fails to consider CER for Musaeva

  A court hearing in Grozny, at which the issue of conditional early relief for Zarema Musaeva was to be considered, was disrupted as she was not brought to court.

May 28, 2024 22:58

• Public prosecutor challenges acquittal of Jehovah’s Witness* Guschin

  In a case against Kirill Guschin, a Jehovah’s Witness* from Kabardino-Balkaria, a public prosecutor filed an appeal against the acquittal of the believer. The prosecutor requests a new trial with a different composition of judges.

May 28, 2024 21:59

• Human rights defenders report on Chechen convict's hunger strike

  Beslan Gadaev, a native of Chechnya, has gone on a hunger strike after being transferred to a Karelian colony due to pressure from the colony staff, human rights defenders report, adding that Gadaev is constantly kept in the dungeon (punishment cell); and he hasn't seen his relatives since his detention in 2006.

May 28, 2024 19:50

• Clip with apologies recalls Chechens' attitude to interethnic ties

  In Chechnya, people condemn relations with non-Muslims; and there is a strict rule not to show them off, analysts have recalled in connection with the apology of a skinhead who stated that he was "in love with a Chechen girl."

May 28, 2024 16:57

• Ingush resident achieves compensation for beating by law enforcer

  The Magas District Court has awarded compensation of 1.5 million roubles to a resident of Ingushetia who had been beaten up by a law enforcer during his detention. This was reported by the human rights project "Traumpunkt".

May 28, 2024 16:34

• Social media users surprised by skinhead’s apology for loving a Chechen girl

  A young man, who introduced himself in a video circulated on social media as a skinhead who fell in love with a Chechen girl, recorded a new video in which he apologized to the Chechen people. The apologies caused confusion among many social media users.

May 27, 2024 23:48

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of May 20-26, 2024

  Resignations and appointments in Chechnya, flooding in the Lori Province, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, political crisis in Armenia, Novikov’s sentence, 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 20-26, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

May 27, 2024 23:26

• Volgograd lawyer complains to PO about investigators' inaction

  Ruslan Nurushev, the lawyer, whose personal data were disclosed on the TV, has filed a complaint with the Prosecutor's Office (PO) against investigators. He claimed their inaction of not reacting to citizens' illegal shadowing while laying flowers in memory of Alexei Navalny.

May 27, 2024 22:50

• Volgograd: mobilized father of disabled child denied demobilization

  Evgeny Gusakov, a mobilized soldier and a resident of Volgograd, has asked to dismiss him from army service, since one of his three children has a disability status. However, courts have rejected his claim.

May 27, 2024 21:33

• EU includes investigator and judge in Orlov’s* case in sanctions list

  The European Union included in the sanctions list the investigator who led the criminal case instituted against Oleg Orlov* and the judge who sentenced the human rights defender to imprisonment. The investigator and the judge are accused of human rights violations.

May 27, 2024 21:12

• Defrauded real estate investors from Nalchik complain to President Putin about inaction of officials

  In their video message to Vladimir Putin, activists have claimed that officials representing the authorities do not respond to requests from real estate investors in an unfinished apartment building in Nalchik. The authors of the appeal have requested the Russian President to solve the problem.

May 27, 2024 20:46

• Daudov's appointment as PM confirms his status in Chechnya

  In Chechnya, high positions are occupied by people especially close to Ramzan Kadyrov. The appointment of Magomed Daudov as the Prime Minister (PM) has confirmed his high status; and it also indicates that in the future he may become Kadyrov's successor, analysts have noted.

May 26, 2024 23:04

• Leila Gatagazheva again placed under house arrest

  Despite the fact that the decision to transfer Leila Gatagazheva, a native of Ingushetia, under house arrest was made in her favour, it still violates the law, since the investigation period has ended and she could not have been given a preventive freedom restriction measure at all.

May 26, 2024 22:52

• Chechen Parliament supports Daudov's appointment

  Chechen parliamentarians (MPs) have unanimously supported the appointment of Magomed Daudov as chairman of the government of the republic (Premier); he himself has announced this in his Telegram channel.

May 26, 2024 21:36

• Adler resident arrested for eight days for extremist comments

  A court in Adler has imposed an administrative punishment in the form of eight days of arrest on a local resident for his comments in a social network, which were treated as extremist.

May 26, 2024 20:36

• Historians assess prospects of Nalchik resident's demands to stop Stalin glorification

  In modern Russian realities, any initiatives demanding to stop Stalinism rehabilitation are useless and can lead to repressions against authors of such demands, Pavel Polyan has suggested in his comment on the appeal of Oleg Kelemetov, a Nalchik resident, to parliaments of North-Caucasian republics.

May 25, 2024 20:57

• Rights defenders treat mass kidnappings as instability sign in Chechnya

  Some of the 80 persons kidnapped after the arson of a car associated with Adam Kadyrov have already been released, human rights defenders have informed, adding that the mass kidnappings amid high-profile resignations indicate an unstable situation in Chechnya and are caused by law enforcers' desire to demonstrate their importance.

May 25, 2024 20:53

• Personnel changes highlight level of Chechen authorities’ autonomy

  The resignations of Magomed Daudov and Muslim Khuchiev from their posts have shown that the authorities of Chechnya are more independent in personnel matters than other regions of Russia, analysts emphasize. The resignation of Magomed Daudov has not spoiled his relationship with Ramzan Kadyrov, the spokesperson for the “Vayfond” human rights association believes.