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March 17, 2025 23:55

• Resident of Chechnya publicly apologizes for his post in social network

  A state TV channel has released a report containing an apology from a resident of the Urus-Martan District for posting a video about a local hospital.

March 17, 2025 23:11

• Activist complains about pressure after detention in Krasnodar

  In Krasnodar, law enforcers have released Mikhail Matyazh, who demanded, at his solo picket, that those responsible for the environmental disaster in Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) be punished. The activist has reported that he was subjected to pressure after his detention.

March 17, 2025 21:56

• Woman from Stavropol Territory sentenced to imprisonment in penal colony in case on fakes about Russian Army

  In the Stavropol Territory, a court sentenced local resident Anna Vorobyova to six years of imprisonment in a penal colony, recognizing her entries posted on a social networking service as dissemination of false information about the actions of the Russian Armed Forces.

March 17, 2025 21:43

• Blogger Kharchenko* to appeal against his verdict

  Vadim Kharchenko*, a blogger from Gelendzhik, who was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment, intends to file an appeal against the verdict.

March 16, 2025 20:47

• Analysts assess Dagestani head’s statement on appeals of SMO fighters

  The appeals of the participants of the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine from Dagestan to republic’s authorities are caused by many local problems and remain one of the ways to attract officials’ attention. Despite the statement by the head of Dagestan, Sergey Melikov, that the combatants record their appeals as a result of "manipulations," he will have to respond to them, analysts believe.

March 15, 2025 23:57

• Yerevan protesters demand UN intervention in fate of prisoners kept in Baku

  In order to defend their own principles, the UN must study the custody conditions of Armenian prisoners of war (POWs) kept in Baku and assess their trial, activists in Yerevan have stated.

March 15, 2025 23:18

• Georgian journalist Amaglobeli treats her administrative case as fabricated

  At trial on an administrative case, Mziya Amaglobeli, the founder of the “Batumelebi” and “Netgazeti” online publications, denied any guilt in insulting police inspectors.

March 15, 2025 22:39

• Defence voices out details of Dagestani Magomed Magomedov’s torture case

  The inquiry into the violence against Magomed Magomedov raises questions from the public in Dagestan, while advocates are preparing to fight the investigators’ refusal to open a case against the law enforcers involved, despite the traumas fixed on his body by the examination.

March 15, 2025 21:40

• Rights defenders treat proofs in Georgian oppositionists’ case as artificial

  The supporters of Georgia’s European integration, accused of involvement in violence at protest actions held in Tbilisi, are not charged with the actions described by the suffered law enforcers. The aim of the trial is to intimidate the civil society so that people are afraid to take part in protests, human rights defenders believe.

March 14, 2025 23:56

• Nagorno-Karabakh refugees ask Switzerland for help in returning to their homeland

  At a protest action held in front of the Swiss Embassy in Yerevan, refugees have expressed their hope that the Switzerland’s mediation can help Nagorno-Karabakh people return to their homeland.

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