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October 07, 2022 23:39

• Japan extends sanctions to Kadyrov's relatives

  The Japanese government, which had earlier decided to freeze the assets of the head of Chechnya, has now extended sanctions to his wife and three daughters, as well as two women named on the list as Ramzan Kadyrov's wives.

October 07, 2022 23:34

• Customers of Politkovskaya's murder go unpunished for 16 years

  For 16 years the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, the customers of the crime have not been named, human rights defenders have stated on the anniversary of her murder.

October 07, 2022 23:27

• "Memorial" awarded Nobel Peace Prize

  The Russian human rights organization has won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Nobel Committee has informed.

October 07, 2022 15:12

• GPO demands to transfer office of "International Memorial"* to the state

  On October 7, a court in Moscow will consider the claim lodged by the Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) demanding to invalidate the deal on the transfer of the premises in Karetny Ryad Street from the "International Memorial"* to another organization and turn the property into the income of the state.

October 07, 2022 14:15

• Blogger Vitaly Votanovsky fined for cooperating with undesirable organization

  A court in Krasnodar has found Vitaly Votanovsky, the author of the Telegram channel "Titushki of Krasnodar", guilty of participating in an undesirable organization for his reposts in a social network and fined him.

October 07, 2022 14:12

• Rights defenders declare Dagestani accused of terrorism political prisoner

  Gamid Dataev, a native of Dagestan, as well as the Muslims Artyom Vatrya and Bekhruz Ganiev, were unreasonably accused of creating a terrorist community and participating therein in the Khanty-Mansiysk Okrug, and of a number of other crimes.

October 06, 2022 23:58

• Defence convinces court to return Ibragim Gadjiev’s case to Prosecutor’s Office

  In Makhachkala, a court has agreed with the arguments of the defence about violations in a case against former policeman Ibragim Gadjiev and returned the case to the Prosecutor’s Office.

October 06, 2022 23:54

• Protesters beaten in Chechnya, human rights defenders report

  Policemen forced relatives of the women participating in a protest action in Grozny to beat them, after which men from their families were forcibly mobilized, human rights defender Oleg Orlov and Oyub Titiev confirmed.

October 06, 2022 14:44

• Woman from Volgograd Region demands to return her mobilized son

  The mother of Nikolai Glazkov, who was drafted in the Gorodischensky District, has appealed to the prosecutor's office with a demand to cancel her son's mobilization. Nikolai, 43, suffers from serious illnesses, she has pointed out.

October 06, 2022 14:37

• Social network users condemn North-Ossetian woman for ill-treating her son

  The villager from North Ossetia who has injured her child for disobedience should be deprived of parental rights and freedom, social media users believe. Some of them questioned the mother's mental health.

October 06, 2022 14:35

• Makhachkala Mayor's promise to support families of those mobilized sparks distrust on Internet

  In Makhachkala, a headquarters has been set up to support the families of those mobilized, which will take upon itself the solution of their problems, Mayor, Salman Dadaev, has announced.

October 06, 2022 14:30

• Journalist Vladimir Sevrinovsky released in Dagestan

  Vladimir Sevrinovsky, a journalist, arrested for five days in Makhachkala, is back at large. According to his story, he was detained with the use of force; policemen ignored the fact that he was performing his journalistic assignment.

October 05, 2022 23:59

• Kadyrov boasts of his rank of Colonel General

  Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded the leader of Chechnya the rank of Colonel General. This has been reported by Ramzan Kadyrov himself on his Telegram channel. At the same time, the leader of Chechnya promised to justify “the trust given in advance.”

October 05, 2022 23:57

• ECtHR awards compensation of 122,000 euros to sister of men killed in Nazran

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) awarded compensation of 122,000 euros to a sister of Salman and Zhuneid Gardanov, who were killed in 2012 during a special operation in Ingushetia, although Russia has adopted a law on non-execution of ECtHR decisions made after March 15, 2022.

October 05, 2022 19:30

• Kadyrov's statement about sending his sons to Ukraine surprises lawyers

  Russian laws do not allow sending minors to the war zone, even if they receive a military education, the lawyers, Natalia Sekretaryova and Tamilla Imanova, have noted in their comments to the statement of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, about his intention to send his minor sons to Ukraine.

October 05, 2022 15:25

• ECtHR awards compensation to those convicted of attack on Nalchik

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has acknowledged that law enforcers had tortured 29 convicts in the case of the militant attack on Nalchik, and has decided that they should be paid from 26,000 to 52,000 euros in compensation for their received moral harm.

October 05, 2022 15:23

• Court denies the right of resident of Rostov Region to be paid for wound in Chechnya

  Alexander Putilin, a former contract soldier from the city of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky is not entitled to receive allowance for his wound received in the second Chechen, which made him unfit for further service, since the relevant law was not yet in force then, the court has ruled.

October 05, 2022 15:17

• Kadyrov's intent to send his sons to frontline spark bewilderment among social media users

  The statement of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, about his readiness to send his underage sons Akhmat, Eli and Adam to Ukraine has caused bewilderment among social media users.

October 05, 2022 15:14

• Kislovodsk doctor's sister tells about his captivity in Ukraine

  Murat Karabashev, a military doctor, was sent to the special operation after graduating from university and was captured when he tried to take patients out, his sister has reported.

October 05, 2022 15:09

• Reaction to dispersal of protest actions in Makhachkala highlights weakness of society

  The desire to get estimates of the violent dispersal of the anti-mobilization protests in Makhachkala from well-known athletes, including Khabib Nurmagomedov, highlighted the absence of political and social leaders in Dagestan.