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January 25, 2024 22:17

• Melikov angered by critical report on federal TV channel about Dagestani school

  Sergey Melikov, the leader of Dagestan, has claimed that the report of a Dagestani journalist about a dilapidated school building in the village of Shinaz, released on the federal TV channel, is biased. The leader of the republic has emphasized that he has been monitoring the situation with the school for two years already.

January 25, 2024 21:14

• Court in Cherkessk refuses to sentence Jehovah's Witnesses* to real prison term

  By the outcomes of cassation and retrial of her case by the first-instance court, Elena Menchikova, a Jehovah's Witness* from the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), was sentenced to 4.5 years of (conditional imprisonment (probation), contrary to the prosecutor's demand for five years of real imprisonment.

January 25, 2024 17:31

• Kizilyurt resident with many children sentenced to suspended imprisonment for connections with militants

  In Kizilyurt, a court found local resident Zulfiya Dengalova guilty of participating in an illegal armed formation (IAF) in Syria. Taking into account her repentance and the fact that the woman is raising four children alone, the court sentenced her to suspended imprisonment for five years.

January 25, 2024 15:25

• SIZO bosses reject Melikhova's statement about custody conditions

  The administration of the Armavir SIZO (pre-trial prison) has denied the problem with heating in the cells, which Marina Melikhova complained about, her defence has reported.

January 24, 2024 23:58

• Rights defenders recognize Irina Skorovarova as political prisoner

  For her pacifist position, Irina Skorovarova, a resident of the city of Taganrog, is accused of discrediting the Russian Army, the human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial" has informed demanding to stop her criminal case.

January 24, 2024 22:19

• State Duma MP apologizes after Kadyrov's anger

  Ramzan Kadyrov has proposed to "kick out" Mikhail Matveev, an MP, from the State Duma after his statement that authorities were bending "before the Islamic factor," and warned about the threat of intra-Russian conflicts with Muslims. After this, the above MP recorded a video with an apology, explaining that he had meant supporters of the radical Islam and the "shaitans" already defeated in Chechnya.

January 24, 2024 19:59

• Court fines Volgograd pensioner again for discrediting Russian Army

  For the second time this year, Natalia Dorozhnova, a pensioner and a Volgograd activist, has been found guilty of discrediting the Russian Army. The court has obliged her to pay a fine of 30,000 roubles.

January 24, 2024 18:18

• Prosecutor demands five years in colony for believer from Cherkessk

  Following the retrial of her case by the court, Elena Menchikova, a Jehovah's Witness*, should be sentenced to five years in penal colony, the prosecutor has demanded. The woman has rejected the accusations of extremism and called on the court to be impartial, the human rights project "OVD-Info"** has informed.

January 24, 2024 16:13

• Journalist Idris Yusupov* claims attempted provocation at picket in Makhachkala

  An unidentified man with a sheet of paper in his hands tried to stand next to Idris Yusupov*, who was holding a solo picket in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, and the journalist had to stop his protest action.

January 23, 2024 23:17

• Defence of Ingush activists challenges verdict in court of cassation

  In their cassation appeal, advocates of convicts claimed that the court of appeal had committed serious violations when considering the case against the Ingush oppositionists and that should become the basis for cancellation of the verdict.

January 23, 2024 22:56

• Activist Atamanchuk treats case on defamation as fabricated

  At a court hearing in a case on defamation instituted against Vladimir Atamanchuk, the judge dismissed all the motions filed by the defence; and the activist called the case a politically motivated falsification.

January 23, 2024 22:11

• Activist Marina Melikhova complains about custody conditions at SIZO

  Marina Melikhova, an activist, convicted of discrediting Russian militaries, has complained about the problems with heating at the SIZO-2 (pre-trial prison) in Armavir.

January 23, 2024 20:55

• Scandal at Derbent school reminds about teachers' and officials' responsibility for children

  The incident when schoolgirls of the Derbent school received insults and threats for allegedly inappropriate clothes and appearance could not have happened if the school administration had introduced school uniforms, and officials had paid more attention to educating and upbringing young people. This is what Dagestani political analyst, educator and lawyer assert.

January 23, 2024 19:43

• Posts in messenger result in fine imposed on Grozny resident

  A court in Grozny has fined Magomed-Emi Saidov, a local resident, concluding that his posts placed in the Telegram messenger were aimed at discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

January 22, 2024 23:57

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of January 15-21, 2024

  Pressure on journalists in Azerbaijan, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, murder of imam in Chechnya, fire in an art gallery, explosion in a furniture workshop, destroyed cemeteries in Nagorno-Karabakh, 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 January 15-21, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

January 22, 2024 23:10

• Human rights defender Nagavkin enters into settlement agreement with SIZO administration

  Volgograd human rights defender Igor Nagavkin managed to negotiate a settlement agreement with the administration of the SIZO (pre-trial prison), but the trial in the case on disorganization of the SIZO’s operation was not closed.

January 22, 2024 20:39

• Irina Skorovarova accused in criminal case on discrediting Russian Army

  Investigators filed a criminal charge on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces against Irina Skorovarova, a resident of Taganrog. That was reported by the human rights project “OVD-Info”* with reference to Sergey Kovalevich, an advocate of Irina Skorovarova.

January 22, 2024 18:19

• Fight for morality at Derbent school results in prosecutor's check

  The Dagestani Prosecutor's Office (PO) has reported about a check conducted in connection with the information about violations of schoolchildren's rights in Derbent. High school students at one of the schools were persecuting teenagers whose clothes and appearance, in their opinion, were immoral.

January 22, 2024 17:07

• Law enforcers unsuccessfully tried three times to fine Tuapse resident for discrediting Russian Army

  A Tuapse district court for the third time returned to the police the protocol about discrediting the Russian Army, drawn up against Asker Allolo, a resident of the Tuapse District of the Krasnodar Territory.

January 21, 2024 21:39

• Child suffers at wedding party in KChR

  A seven-year-old girl was wounded during a shooting at a wedding party in the Ust-Dzhegutin District of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR). A resident of Rostov-on-Don, detained after the incident, has pleaded guilty.