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April 30, 2021 11:20

• Shamil Nurmagomedov receives tightened custody regime in Smolensk colony

  Shamil Nurmagomedov, a native of Dagestan, who is serving his term for financing terrorism in a colony in the Smolensk Region, has been transferred from an isolation cell with strict custody conditions to a cell-type premise for five months. The reason for the punishment was the publicity of the data about the inmates' protest hunger strike, Nurmagomedov's father has informed.

April 30, 2021 11:07

• In court, Elena Barzukaeva answers to law enforcers' lawsuit

  For Elena Barzukaeva, applications about her son's torture have turned into lawsuits against her lodged by law enforcers. Investigators refused to investigate her applications, and she had no other way to help her son but to voice out the names of those who could have been involved in the torture in media and at pickets, Barzukaeva herself stated it in court.

April 30, 2021 08:35

• Rights defenders treat sentence to athlete Mamedzade as revenge for supporting opposition

  With his open support of the opposition, Said Mamedzade has irritated officials, Tezekhan Miralamli, a human rights defender, has commented on the sentence passed to the athlete.

April 30, 2021 08:22

• Woman from Gelendjik complains about beating after action in support of Navalny

  Marina Romanova was taken to intensive care unit after being beaten in the city of Gelendjik. She links the attack on her with her taking part in actions in support of the opposition leader, Alexei Navalny.

April 30, 2021 00:23

• Oppositionists demand to stop persecuting Pashinyan’s opponents

  Today, members of the ARF “Dashnaktsutyun” have held a protest in front of the building of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Armenia. The activists demand to stop persecution of Nikol Pashinyan’s opponents detained in Syunik region and those who expressed their support for them.

April 29, 2021 23:58

• ICRF’s Department for Chechnya promises state protection to Magamadov and Isaev

  Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev, moderators of a Telegram chat, who are under arrest in Chechnya, will receive state protection in connection with the threat of “honour killings.” The state has recognized the reality of the threat to the arrested brothers’ lives, advocate Alexander Nemov emphasizes.

April 29, 2021 23:46

• Chechnya and Kabardino-Balkaria: anti-leaders on living standards of elderly people

  Authors of the study “Old Age in Russia” mentioned Chechnya among the six regions with the most acute problems among the elderly people. In terms of the number of the elderly people with incomes below the minimum subsistence level, Chechnya is ahead of Kabardino-Balkaria.

April 29, 2021 19:19

• Social media users criticize Kadyrov’s report on reducing unemployment

  After the Ramzan Kadyrov’s statement that the unemployment rate in the region has almost halved since late 2020, Instagram users point out there is no real decline in the unemployment rate in Chechnya.

April 29, 2021 18:59

• FSB reports about detention in Kuban of supporters of a radical grouping

  The FSB of Russia reported about the detention in nine Russian cities, including Krasnodar and Anapa, of 16 supporters of the “M.K.U.” extremist community, who were plotting massacres and terror acts. The detainees were receiving instructions from the leader of the grouping, Yegor Krasnov, a citizen of Ukraine, reported the video posted by law enforcers.

April 29, 2021 13:07

• EU demands from Baku to return Armenian POWs

  The Azerbaijani authorities must provide the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) with all the information about the Armenian prisoners of war (POWs) captured in Nagorno-Karabakh and expedite their return to their homeland, the European Union (EU) has stated.

April 29, 2021 12:42

• Authors of hiking project note recreational potentials of Northern Caucasus

  A group of enthusiasts has announced fundraising for the creation of the first hiking trail in the regions Northern Caucasus from the Caspian to the Black Sea. The tourist trail will help the economic development of the Caucasus, the authors of the project believe.

April 29, 2021 11:40

• Victims put forward no claims against Ingush activists

  The four "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard) servicemen, interrogated on April 28 as victims in the case of the leaders of the Ingush protest, told the court that they had no claims against the defendants, and found it difficult to explain why they had treated them as guilty of organizing a rally in Magas, the advocates has informed.

April 29, 2021 11:27

• Source treats the man killed in Ingushetia as not linked with militants

  The car driver shot dead by law enforcers in Nazran was not a militant, a law enforcement source has stated. Instagram users demand proofs that law enforcers had reasons to use firearms.

April 29, 2021 10:59

• Instagram users complain about extortions in Chechen medical institutions

  A message from a Shali woman, who complained that doctors of the local hospital are incompetent and claim money even for services that are supposed to be provided for free, was posted on the Instagram. Users sympathize with the woman and share their own negative impressions of visiting Chechen medical institutions.

April 29, 2021 08:36

• Azerbaijani oppositionist Said Mamedzade sentenced to real prison term

  Said Mamedzade, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has been sentenced to 3.5 years in prison on charges of hooliganism. His defence has disagreed with the verdict and stated its intent to appeal against it. The PFPA is sure that Mamedzade is being persecuted for political reasons.

April 29, 2021 08:18

• One person killed in a shootout with law enforcers in Ingushetia

  A car driver was shot dead in Nazran after he put up armed resistance to law enforcers, law enforcement sources have reported.

April 28, 2021 23:05

• HRC “Memorial”* recognizes Akhmed Pogorov as a political prisoner

  The criminal proceedings against Akhmed Pogorov, like other Ingush activists, are of political reasons and aimed at stopping public criticism of the authorities. Human rights defenders demand the immediate release of the Ingush activists, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* reports today.

April 28, 2021 22:47

• Natives of Caucasus stop their hunger strike after concessions from colony administration

  Ten prisoners, including three residents of Dagestan and a native of Azerbaijan, stopped their protest in one of the penal colonies of the Smolensk Region. Some of the prisoners’ demands have already been met, their relatives say today.

April 28, 2021 18:19

• Court leaves Magamadov and Isaev in custody

  Today, the Supreme Court of Chechnya has refused to grant an appeal filed by the defence against the decision to arrest Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev. Advocates from the “Russian LGBT Network” insist that the Ismail Isaev’s term of detention expired weeks before the decision on his arrest.

April 28, 2021 17:31

• Disputes over pardoning law enforcers exacerbate political conflict in Georgia

  The law enforcers who took part in the harsh dispersal of a rally in Tbilisi in June 2019 should be pardoned only with the consent of victims of their actions, the Georgian opposition states. During the rallies, people suffered both from the police actions and from the actions of the opposition, MPs from the ruling “Georgian Dream” Party argue.