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November 20, 2023 15:47

• After Makhachkala riots, over 400 people brought to responsibility

  Dagestani courts have received administrative cases against 412 people accused of offenses during the anti-Semitic action and riots at the Makhachkala Airport. This was reported by the "Mediazona"*.

November 19, 2023 21:14

• Rights defenders explain Chechen Imams' failure to appear at trial of Zhuravel's case

  Chechen Imams have become the suffered party in Nikita Zhuravel's case against their will, and ignore court sessions, because they received no instructions on their testimonies, Svetlana Gannushkina* believes.

November 18, 2023 23:57

• Lawyers and rights defenders criticize arson version of commissariat in Prokhladny

  Lawyers and human rights defenders have found distrustful the version that instructions from some curator were found in the phone of the person detained for setting fire to the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) in the town of Prokhladny.

November 18, 2023 23:15

• KBR: soldier convicted for evading service

  A court in Nalchik has sentenced Isa Malsagov, a military serviceman, to five years of conditional freedom deprivation, finding him guilty of leaving his military unit without permission.

November 18, 2023 22:33

• Twenty-seven complaints against arrests after mass unrests in Makhachkala arrive in courts

  At least 27 people have been arrested within a criminal case regarding mass riots in Makhachkala, who have appealed against their arrest in the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan. The SC has already upheld arrests on 17 complaints.

November 18, 2023 21:22

• Comment about unrests in Makhachkala causes denunciation of Saida Sirazhudinova

  After posting her comment on anti-Semitic actions in Dagestan for some Western editions, Saida Sirazhudinova, the President of the Centre for Studying Global Modernity Issues and Regional Problems "Caucasus. World. Development", has attracted attention of a well-known informer.

November 18, 2023 19:25

• After beating up Zhuravel, Adam Kadyrov adds public medal to his collection of awards

  Activists of the all-Russian organization "Russia's Labour Valour" have decorated Adam Kadyrov, a son of the head of Chechnya, who had beaten up the arrested Nikita Zhuravel, with their public award. Adam has also received the medal "For Contribution to Development of Russian Special Forces University".

November 18, 2023 17:35

• Activist from Sochi fined for insulting Russian president

  In Sochi, a court fined activist Anna Kolmagortseva 40,000 roubles under the article on petty hooliganism for posting a video allegedly insulting the Russian president. The court’s decision will be challenged, since the video was filmed and posted by another user, the activist states.

November 18, 2023 16:55

• Human rights defenders treat report on victims of domestic violence in Northern Caucasus as relevant

  Human rights defenders have noted that among the regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), the problem with evacuation of victims of domestic violence is most acute in Dagestan, Ingushetia, and Chechnya, since in those republics, the authorities and the law enforcement bodies take the side of family aggressors.

November 17, 2023 22:13

• Krasnodar resident detained for justifying terror act

  Agents of the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) have detained a man in Krasnodar who spoke favourably about the explosion on the Crimean Bridge in a social network.

November 17, 2023 21:30

• Source reports search of founder of Ingush scientific society

  Law enforcers have seized books and computers during conducting a search of Yakub Gogiev, the founder of the "Dzurdzuki" Ingush historical and geographical society.

November 17, 2023 20:58

• After riots in Makhachkala, 17 people appeal against their arrest

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has received complaints about the arrest of 17 rioters at the Makhachkala Airport; the SC has already considered nine of them and upheld the awarded freedom restriction measures.

November 17, 2023 20:45

• Police instructed to ensure safety of Fatima Zurabova, escapee from domestic violence

  Fatima Zurabova was brought in for questioning in connection with an application about her disappearance, the Investigating Committee (IC) of Armenia has informed. The police are tasked with ensuring the safety of a native of Ingushetia, who had escaped from domestic violence.

November 17, 2023 19:18

• Human rights defenders recognize Nikita Zhuravel as a political prisoner

  The persecution of Nikita Zhuravel is politically motivated and aimed at intimidating the public, states the human rights project “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial.” The human rights defenders requested the authorities to immediately release the resident of Volgograd and launch an investigation into his beating by a son of Ramzan Kadyrov.

November 17, 2023 16:34

• HRW criticizes authorities’ leniency towards participants in anti-Semitic protests in Caucasus

  The authorities of Russia did not recognize the anti-Semitic nature of the riots at an airport in Makhachkala and the arson of the Jewish cultural centre under construction in Nalchik, noted the international organization “Human Rights Watch” (HRW).

November 17, 2023 16:15

• In Volgograd, court confirms right of a conscript to alternative service

  The Volgograd Regional Court recognized the refusal to replace military service with an alternative civilian one for pacifist Pavel Abramov as unlawful and ordered the draft commission to reconsider the application.

November 16, 2023 23:15

• Rights defenders ask ECtHR to ban extradition of Ingush woman who fled domestic violence

  The Vanadzor office of the Helsinki Civic Assembly has filed a petition with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), demanding a ban on the extradition from Armenia to Russia of Fatima Zurabova, a native of Ingushetia, who fled domestic violence.

November 16, 2023 21:57

• Officials had to spend money on the "Children of Chechnya to Children of Palestine" campaign

  Chechen officials had to spend up to a third of their monthly salaries buying children's crafts during the "Children of Chechnya to Children of Palestine" campaign, local government officials said. Parents of school pupils and kindergarten children said that their children made crafts with enthusiasm.

November 16, 2023 21:49

• Analysts claim contradiction to law in appointing Kadyrov's son as deputy minister

  A position at the level of deputy minister in the regional government cannot be held by a person without completed higher education; this restriction is established by the republic's law of Chechnya, lawyers have stated in their comments on the appointment of Akhmat Kadyrov.

November 16, 2023 21:08

• Defence of activist Cheldiev files complaint with ECtHR

  The criminal prosecution of Vadim Cheldiev, convicted in the case of an anti-Covid rally in Vladikavkaz, has violated his rights to the freedom of expression and the freedom of assembly, his defence has claimed in a complaint sent to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).