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June 18, 2024 21:14

• Court extends arrest of five defendants in Makhachkala unrest case

  The arrest of five figurants in the riot case at Makhachkala Airport has been extended until December 30, 2024, the RIA "Novosti" has reported, citing the press service of the courts of the Krasnodar Territory.

June 18, 2024 20:49

• Court finds violation of detainees' rights in Makhachkala shelter

  The court has obliged the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to pay compensations to three women who were beaten up by law enforcers during detention at a shelter, where law enforcers came there to take Khalimat Taramova, a native of Chechnya, away.

June 18, 2024 17:54

• Court extends arrest of journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova

  Nadezhda Kevorkova, a journalist, accused of justifying terrorism, has been left in custody until August 6, 2024.

June 17, 2024 23:43

• Human rights defenders comment on incident in Rostov SIZO

  The hostage-taking incident in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Rostov-on-Don may be the result of a provocation, human rights defenders note. According to their version, the dead prisoners had handcuffs on their hands, and numerous violations had earlier been recorded in the SIZO itself.

June 17, 2024 23:11

• Magomedov’s picket attracts attention of tourists to Dagestani journalist Gadjiev’s case

  In Makhachkala, tourists became interested in Abdulmumin Gadjiev’s case after noticing a solo picket in his support, reported journalist Magomed Magomedov.

June 17, 2024 22:57

• Military man from Adygea sentenced for desertion

  A court sentenced Vitaly Yanchenko, a contract soldier from Adygea, to six years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony, finding him guilty of desertion from a military unit in Buynaksk.

June 17, 2024 22:55

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of June 10-June 16, 2024

  Eid al-Adha in the Caucasus, parliament of South Ossetia, Georgian vetoes, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, sky over Rostov-on-Don, 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 June 10-June 16, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

June 17, 2024 20:36

• Inmates from Ingushetia and Chechnya are named as hostage-takers in Rostov-on-Don

  Prisoners from Ingushetia, convicted under terrorist articles, took part in hostage-taking at the Rostov SIZO (pre-trial prison), said the head of Ingushetia. Sources have added that prisoners from Chechnya were also among hostage-takers.

June 17, 2024 18:48

• SMO fighter from Dagestan complains to Putin about infringement of his wife's labour rights

  While in the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine, Top Sergeant Sultanali Akhmedov has recorded a video appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of Dagestan Sergey Melikov.

June 16, 2024 19:05

• ECtHR finds violation of Astrakhan activist Doliev's rights

  Mikhail Doliev, an Astrakhan activist, has won the case versus Russia at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Two of his complaints concerned his detentions during protest actions.

June 15, 2024 23:10

• Relatives of incapacitated tourist complain to Kuban Prosecutor about his rights violation

  Galina Teryokhina, a Moscow resident, has sent a complaint to the Public Prosecutor of the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river) that the court had fined her incapacitated relative for sneaking onto a fenced beach.

June 15, 2024 22:55

• Lawyers doubt prospect of bills banning religious clothes

  The bills that intend to ban wearing religious clothing, including niqabs, in public places are causing a split in the society, which is especially negative amid the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine. Religious clothes are not widespread in the country, this issue is not relevant, therefore the bills to ban them will not be adopted, lawyers believe.

June 15, 2024 21:43

• Sentence to contract soldier from Stavropol Territory for evading service upheld

  The appellate instance has upheld the sentence of Arkady Tomilov, a contract serviceman from the Stavropol Territory, who was sentenced to six years in penal colony for leaving his military unit without permission.

June 15, 2024 19:53

• Kadyrov's nephew gets under UK sanctions

  The British authorities have included Yakub Zakriev, a nephew of the head of Chechnya, who now heads the "Danone Russia" Company, into the sanctions list.

June 15, 2024 15:55

• ECtHR finds violation of rights of activists from Southern Russia

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found unlawful the detention of activists at protest actions held in Rostov-on-Don, Sochi, Anapa and Stavropol.

June 14, 2024 22:59

• Stavropol resident demands to punish law enforcers for torturing his son

  Law enforcers have detained Eldar Kyulbyakov, a resident of the village of Suvorovskaya, and tortured him with electric shock, demanding that he write a confession. According to his father, they also demanded from Eldar to testify against the head of one of the police departments.

June 14, 2024 21:47

• Makhachkala resident convicted in case on involvement in “USSR”*

  A court sentenced a woman from Makhachkala to a suspended sentence, recognizing her as a member of a cell of the extremist organization “Union of Rus’ Slavic Forces”.

June 14, 2024 20:39

• Court finds it unlawful to cancel sentence of law enforcers for beating a Krasnodar resident

  The Court of Cassation for the third time returned to the Krasnodar Territorial Court the criminal case on beating of Yevgeniy Manchenko, a person with disabilities, by law enforcers. The court recognized the cancellation of the sentence as unlawful.

June 14, 2024 19:56

• Economist Zubarevich assesses potential of investment projects in Northern Caucasus

  The agreements on the creation of a “Wildberries” logistics hub in North Ossetia and a plant for the production of polymer pipes in Budyonnovsk look like the most realistic of all the investment projects for Northern Caucasus concluded at the Saint Petersburg Economic Forum, economist Natalia Zubarevich suggests.

June 14, 2024 18:10

• Artists appreciate significance of Kishev’s collection for Kabardino-Balkaria

  The authorities of Kabardino-Balkaria have provided assistance to artist Mukhadin Kishev in his struggle for an art house in Nalchik, a lawyer reports. Artists consider national motifs in a modern interpretation as one of the features of the Mukhadin Kishev’s works.