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August 30, 2024 20:04

• Blogger Maria Borzova fined for discrediting Russian Army

  A court in the city of Abinsk in the Krasnodar Territory has fined Maria Borzova, a streamer, by 40,000 roubles, concluding that the criticism of Russian militaries she expressed during a live broadcast on the Internet discredited the Russian Armed Forces.

August 29, 2024 23:37

• Video showing aggression against Makhachkala woman in niqab outrages residents of Dagestan

  In Dagestan, social network users are discussing the video showing an attack of an aggressive passerby on a woman wearing a niqab in Makhachkala. The man motivated his attempts to take the niqab off her by the Muftiate's ban on this type of religious clothing.

August 29, 2024 22:55

• Woman from Dagestan is forced to go to court to get medicines for her daughter

  The court has obliged the Dagestani Ministry of Public Health (MPH) to provide the due medication to the minor daughter of a local resident, who suffers from a disease affecting organs and bones.

August 29, 2024 22:14

• Investigators take formal actions to react to protests by friends of disappeared Chechen native Seda Suleimanova

  The fate of Seda Suleimanova remains on everyone’s lips thanks to pickets and information activity. The law enforcement bodies had to institute a criminal case in connection with the Seda Suleimanova’s disappearance, although there has been no progress in the investigation, activists believe.

August 29, 2024 21:46

• Shoigu reports about radicals’ attempts to introduce Sharia norms in Northern Caucasus

  In the regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) , radicals are attempting to displace secular laws, replacing them with Sharia norms, and also to replace traditional Islam with its radical movements, reports Sergey Shoigu, Secretary of the Russian Security Council.

August 29, 2024 19:38

• Woman from Cherkessk fined for prohibited symbols

  The Cherkessk city court has fined Madina Karaketova, a local resident, for her avatar placed in a messenger, which was treated as demonstration of prohibited symbols.

August 29, 2024 17:30

• Kuban police finds illegal migrants in prayer room

  During a raid of a prayer room in the city of Gelendjik (the Krasnodar Territory, or Kuban), the police have found 20 foreigners including five citizens of Uzbekistan, who had violated the rules of stay in Russia.

August 28, 2024 23:30

• Human rights defenders explain radicalization of prisoners in penal colony in Surovikino

  The penal colony No. 19 in Surovikino, where prisoners took warders hostage, is known for its extremely poor conditions of detention and the practice of provocations against Muslims, which could lead to a riot, human rights defender Igor Nagavkin notes.

August 28, 2024 23:10

• Krasnodar resident fined for discrediting Russian Army and posting prohibited symbols

  In Krasnodar, a court fined local resident Ilya Kharchenko 61,000 roubles under two protocols on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces and a protocol on demonstrating prohibited symbols.

August 28, 2024 22:40

• Searches conducted at houses of Jehovah’s Witnesses* in Stavropol and Karachay-Cherkessia

  The police conducted searches at the homes of residents of the Kardonikskaya village in Karachay-Cherkessia, including at houses of Tatiana Pasynkova, Maria Ogoreva and her daughter Svetlana Ogoreva, a Jehovah’s Witness*. Searches were also conducted in Stavropol at an apartment of Alexei Pasynkov, a Jehovah’s Witness*.

August 28, 2024 22:10

• Dagestani journalist Idris Yusupov* fined for pickets in support of Palestine and Abdulmumin Gadjiev

  A court in Makhachkala has treated the pickets in support of Palestine and demanding to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev, held by journalist Idris Yusupov*, as a violation of the law on foreign agents, and fined him by 30,000 roubles.

August 28, 2024 17:40

• Schoolgirl from Nevinnomyssk suspected of committing terror act left at SIZO

  The Stavropol Territorial Court has refused to soften the freedom restriction measure for a 15-year-old ninth-grade schoolgirl from Nevinnomyssk, who is kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison). Together with her peer, she is suspected of setting fire to mobile operator stations.

August 27, 2024 23:20

• Suleimanova's girlfriend demands inquiry into law enforcers' actions

  Law enforcers detained Seda Suleimanova in Saint Petersburg and allowed her to be sent to Chechnya despite the girl's words about the threat of repressions there, Lena Patyaeva, a Seda's friend, has stated and demanded from the Investigating Committee of Russian Federation (ICRF) to open a criminal case.

August 27, 2024 23:16

• Court ruling on complaint of wife of "Caucasian Knot" correspondent points to investigators' inaction

  A court in Volgograd has sided with Olga Sorokina, the wife of Vyacheslav Yaschenko, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent in Volgograd, who demanded from the police to investigate attempts to break into her apartment and intimidate her. However, there is no hope for progress in the case; investigators are not interested to deal with it, Vyacheslav believes.

August 27, 2024 22:30

• Sochi resident Alexei Schus left under arrest

  The Court of Appeal has refused to soften the freedom restriction measure for Alexei Schus, a Sochi engineer, accused of spreading fake news about the Russian Army and illegally making weapons.

August 27, 2024 21:22

• Analysts treat reaction to awarding North-Caucasian athletes as politically motivated

  Criticism of Dagestani athletes for taking part in the Olympics under foreign countries' flags by Vitaly Milonov, a State Duma MP, evidences political motivation and aims at opposing residents of the Caucasus to Russians in general. This was stated by the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", who has stressed that regardless of which country the athletes compete for, they remain a source of pride for their nations in Northern Caucasus.

August 27, 2024 19:11

• Adam Kadyrov gets highest award of Chechnya

  Adam Kadyrov, a son of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, the chief of the security department of the head of the republic, has been awarded with the Order of Kadyrov, the highest award of the republic.

August 26, 2024 23:16

• Authorities report number of victims of hostage-taking in penal colony near Volgograd

  Thirteen people were killed as a result of the hostage-taking in a penal colony in the city of Surovikino in Volgograd Region. One of the penal colony employees died in the hospital, and two more victims stay in severe condition, the “Kommersant” reported with reference to the Volgograd Region Committee for Public Health.

August 26, 2024 22:49

• Resident of Dagestani village of Tlokh tortured, his advocate claims

  Magomed Shamsudinov, a resident of the Dagestani village of Tlokh, was detained on suspicion of using force against his acquaintance, and the victim initially testified that Magomed Shamsudinov was not guilty, advocate Aidemir Ismailov reported.

August 26, 2024 22:15

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of August 19-25, 2024

  Hostage-taking in a penal colony, fires in the Caucasus, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, President Putin’s visit to the Caucasus, a ferry with diesel fuel sinks, 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 August 19-25, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.