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June 19, 2025 18:15

• Social media users are sceptical about Alaudinov's proposal for mobilization

  Alaudinov's calls for mobilization are absurd, and if it is so necessary, it should start with the families of Chechen leadership and authorities, social media users have suggested.

June 19, 2025 18:07

• Conflict with "Russian Community" in Moscow attracts attention in Chechnya

  Residents of the Lyublino District in Moscow have filmed a video in which they claimed that activists of the "Russian Community" tried to illegally detain Chechen children. The police were called to the venue; and the representative office of the head of Chechnya in Moscow got involved in the situation.

June 19, 2025 16:49

• Human rights defenders: police pretend to be searching for Seda Suleimanova

  The appearance of a Seda Suleimanova’s wanted card in the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) database actually only indicates that the law enforcement bodies are simulating their activities. When a criminal case is instituted, all active actions to search for a missing person are being carried out at the discretion of an investigator from the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

June 19, 2025 16:42

• Samvel Karapetyan arrested for two months

  Samvel Karapetyan, an owner of the “Tashir” Group of Companies, whose house in Yerevan was searched by officers of the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia after his public speech in support of the Armenian Apostolic Church, has been accused of calling for the overthrow of the constitutional order and taken into custody.

June 19, 2025 09:26

• Psychologists call support for Karabakh refugees necessary

  Refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh, including children, are having a hard time being forced to move to Armenia; the situation is aggravated by financial problems. The psychological support that 250 families have received helps them overcome the adaptation difficulties, experts from the New Perspective Project believe.

June 18, 2025 18:24

• Refusal to exclude “Memorial”* from foreign agents register upheld

  The Moscow appellate court has rejected the complaint against the court ruling refusing to remove the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* from the register of foreign agents.

June 18, 2025 18:23

• Georgian priest detained in Abkhazia

  A Georgian priest, Father Pimen (Roman Kardava), has been detained in Abkhazia. According to the Abkhaz Orthodox Church, he had promoted "nationalist ideas" among the local population.

June 18, 2025 18:12

• Book about life of rights defender Natalia Estemirova published

  The book "Please Live" about the life of human rights defender Natalia Estemirova has been presented in England. According to the author, Lana Estemirova, it took many years to write the book because it was emotionally difficult. Lana wanted to immortalize her mother's name in the absence of a fair investigation into her mother's murder.

June 18, 2025 18:07

• Rights defenders criticize investigators for refusing to familiarize Grozny woman with her son’s case

  Contrary to a court ruling, investigators in Chechnya wouldn’t allow Eset Umarova to study the case materials on the disappearance of her son, Movsar. Human rights defenders have assessed the investigators’ position as “a mockery of the mother and the law.”

June 18, 2025 16:29

• Chechen state-run TV channel reports public apology of woman accused of practicing witchcraft

  Zara Yakhyaeva, a resident of the Kurchaloi District, her son, and several women who addressed her for help were taken to a police department. A state-run TV channel journalist called on residents of Chechnya to report to the police about persons who provide occult services.

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