South Caucasus

September 15, 2023 20:48

• In interview about his fate with "Minval.Az", Chechen ex-minister praises Kadyrov

  Elkhan Suleimanov, a former Minister of Public Health and Deputy Chairman of the Chechen Government, stated that he had resigned of his own free will and left for another country for personal reasons. At the moment of his resignation, Suleimanov treated Kadyrov's health condition as satisfactory and voiced praise for the head of Chechnya.

July 05, 2023 14:52

• Rostov activist Sporysheva leaves Russia after search

  Activist Tatiana Sporysheva, whose apartment was searched after Anatoly Berezikov had died in a special detention centre in Rostov-on-Don, left for Georgia. According to the activist, she made the decision to emigrate because of fears of criminal prosecution.

June 27, 2023 18:28

• Activist Berezikov’s defender leaves Russia after searches

  Advocate Irina Gak has left Russia after the death of her client Anatoly Berezikov in a special detention centre in Rostov-on-Don and searches in her house. This is reported by the human rights project “OVD-Info”*.

June 19, 2023 20:12

• Krasnodar journalist Alipat Sultanbegova ordered not to leave

  The investigator has chosen the recognizance not to leave as the freedom restraint measure for Alipat Sultanbegova, a Krasnodar journalist, who is a figurant in a criminal case on discrediting the Russian Army, although she had already managed to leave Russia.

May 12, 2023 16:58

• Journalist from Chechnya claims discrimination in Georgia

  Zhalaudi Geriev, a former "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, intends to appeal against the decision of Georgian border guards, who refused to let him into the country.

May 05, 2023 17:57

• Swiss court rejects lawsuit against Chechen activist Lachin Mamishov

  The Swiss Supreme Court (SC) has dismissed a hate speech claim against Euro-Ichkerian Lachin Mamishov, who posted on the Internet a video of the explosion on the Crimean Bridge in October 2022 and accompanied it with an ironic caption that such explosions could occur in Moscow as well.

April 28, 2023 23:50

• Female natives of Northern Caucasus go on hunger strike in Iraqi prison

  About 30 natives of Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia and Chechnya, convicted under terrorist articles, are on hunger strike in a Baghdad prison, demanding a revision of their cases and return to Russia.

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