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September 28, 2023 04:04

• Court finds investigators' inaction in journalist Magomedov's case

  A court in Makhachkala has obliged investigators to check the actions of the policemen, who had detained journalist Magomed Magomedov during his solo picket.

September 28, 2023 03:58

• Head of North Ossetia reacts to conflict of mobilized persons with military policemen

  A man mobilized from North Ossetia has accused military policemen of beating and torture, and of nationality-based insults. Sergey Menyailo, the head of North Ossetia, has treated this attitude towards military servicemen as unacceptable.

September 27, 2023 22:54

• Rights activists find testimonies in Batykaev's case proofless

  The testimonies of victims in the death case of Pskov paratroopers are used in every criminal case on this incident, and are not related to a specific defendant. Human rights defenders have stated this when commenting on testimonies at the trial of the case of Alavdi Batykaev, a native of Chechnya.

September 27, 2023 21:42

• Gadjiev’s colleague notes special reaction of Makhachkala residents to demand to release journalist

  A solo picket held by journalist Idris Yusupov with the demand to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev provoked an active reaction from passers-by and drivers.

September 27, 2023 19:50

• Russian Ombudsperson comments on beating by Kadyrov’s son of Volgograd resident who burned Koran

  When commenting on the beating by a son of the leader of Chechnya of Nikita Zhuravel, who was arrested in a case on burning Koran, Russian Ombudsperson Tatiana Moskalkova has declared that a person who has broken the law should be brought to court to answer for his or her actions, and that person should be kept in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in accordance with the established regulations.

September 27, 2023 17:48

• Journalist Ksenia Sobchak tells about Kadyrov's warning not to write about his family

  Ksenia Sobchak has stated that after her publications that Ramzan Kadyrov's son had beaten up Nikita Zhuravel, a Volgograd resident, who had burned the Koran down, at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), the head of Chechnya called her and warned her not to write about his family members.

September 27, 2023 16:48

• Novorossiysk resident fined for her post on social network

  In Novorossiysk, a court fined a local resident 30,000 roubles, recognizing that her post on a social network discredited the Russian Armed Forces.

September 27, 2023 12:44

• Chechen propagandists start justifying Kadyrov and his son

  After Ramzan Kadyrov has posted the video, in which his son Adam beats up Nikita Zhuravel, who was arrested in the case of burning the Koran, a petition appeared on the Internet demanding to bring Ramzan and his son to justice. Network users have stressed the inadmissibility of such actions, while Chechen propagandists are trying to whitewash Kadyrov and his son.

September 26, 2023 17:52

• Human rights defenders criticize Kadyrov after video with beating of Zhuravel

  Ramzan Kadyrov demonstrated his disdain for the Russian laws by posting a video of his son beating arrested Nikita Zhuravel and approving that action, emphasize Marina Akhmedova and Eva Merkachyova, members of the Human Rights Council under the President of Russia.

September 26, 2023 17:20

• Kadyrov praises his son for beating in SIZO a young man who burned Koran

  Ramzan Kadyrov posted a video with beating of Nikita Zhuravel, who was arrested in Grozny in a case on burning of Koran. Nikita Zhuravel was beaten by Adam Kadyrov, wrote the leader of Chechnya and approved his son’s action.

September 25, 2023 23:56

• Social network users support demand of Caucasian activists to confiscate history textbooks

  The Russian Congress of Caucasian Nations and the Council of Ingush Elders have criticized the school textbook on Russian history, in which the deportation of Caucasian nations was explained by their collaboration with German fascists, while the Congress of the Karachay People has demanded to confiscate all the copies of the textbook.

September 25, 2023 23:12

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of September 18-24, 2023

  One-day war in Nagorno-Karabakh, death of Russian peacekeepers, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, elections and unrest in Yerevan, Kadyrov’s health state and school textbooks, 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 September 18-24, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

September 25, 2023 23:06

• Adoptive father of singer Dani Milokhin complains of pressure from Anapa authorities

  The city administration of Anapa has demanded to demolish two houses and to close the store, while local advocates are afraid to take on this case, Dmitry Tyulenev, the adoptive father of Danya Milokhin, a singer, has complained. In their turn, Anapa authorities assert that their demands are justified by the results of the conducted check.

September 25, 2023 17:55

• Canada imposes sanctions against Children's Ombudspersons of two regions in Southern Russia

  Marina Yezhova, the Commissioner for Children's Rights (Ombudsperson) in Dagestan, as well as Svetlana Adamenko, her colleague from the Stavropol Territory, have got under Canadian sanctions.

September 25, 2023 12:45

• Kadyrov demands to rewrite chapter on nations' deportation in school textbook

  Ramzan Kadyrov has demanded to rewrite the chapter of the new school textbook on Russia's history, in which the deportation of Caucasian nations is explained by their collaboration with German fascists.

September 25, 2023 12:40

• Journalist Nozdrinov accuses law enforcers of trying to exert pressure

  Alexander Nozdrinov, a journalist, has reported in a letter to his wife that at the temporary detention facility (known as IVS), he was not allowed to see his advocate and was searched. Nozdrinov is sure that in this way they wanted to put pressure on him, since he did not admit his guilt.

September 24, 2023 19:39

• Rights defenders assess progress of Orlov's trial

  Oleg Orlov, a co-chairman of the "Memorial" Centre for Human Rights Defence, accused of discrediting the Russian Army, considered it important to add the documents of the UN General Assembly to the case files. Yan Rachinsky is confident that the prosecution's arguments are based only on a poorly conducted expertise.

September 24, 2023 19:10

• Orlov tells court about his work in Northern Caucasus

  Oleg Orlov, accused of discrediting the Russian Army, was questioned in a Moscow court. He explained that human rights defenders are not enemies of the state, but are obliged to criticize it if it violates human rights, recalling his human rights activities in Chechnya and Ingushetia.

September 24, 2023 17:16

• Court in Elista fines activist for failed rally

  The Elista City Court has obliged Tseren Basangov to pay a fine of 10,000 roubles for calling for participation in an unauthorized rally. At the same time, the court has ignored the fact that the rally never took place, Valery Badmaev, a journalist, has noted pointing out that this issue should be considered by the Constitutional Court.

September 23, 2023 18:15

• Chechen Zara Murtazalieva removed from list of terrorists

  Zara Murtazalieva, a native of Chechnya, who has served 8.5 years in a Mordovian colony on charges of terrorism, has been removed from the "Rosfinmonitoring" (Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service) list of terrorists and extremists.