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August 20, 2024 21:49

• Musk refutes information about Tesla Cybertruck gifted to Kadyrov

  Elon Musk, an American entrepreneur, has stated that he had not presented a Tesla Cybertruck to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.

August 20, 2024 19:07

• Lawyer attacked in Rostov-on-Don after trying to defend militaries' rights

  In Rostov-on-Don, an unknown man attacked a female lawyer who provides legal assistance to the militaries, who refused to take part in military operations.

August 19, 2024 23:54

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of August 12-18, 2024

  Alaudinov admits Chechen fighters being captured by Ukraine, elections in the southern regions of the Russian Federation, drone attacks, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, Georgian journalists stand against the law on foreign agents, 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 12-18, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

August 19, 2024 22:18

• Destruction of memorial to Tsarist General Daut Keshev is third in its history

  The memorial plaque dedicated to Daut Keshev has already been destroyed three times. While earlier this had to do with his descendants' role in the establishment of Soviet power in Kabardino-Balkaria, now the destruction is connected with the general's participation in the Russian-Turkish War on the side of the tsarist army, his great-great-grandson is sure.

August 19, 2024 20:20

• Comment in messenger turns into fine imposed on Astrakhan resident

  A court in Astrakhan has fined a local resident by 30,000 roubles, treating his comment posted in a messenger as aimed at discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

August 19, 2024 19:36

• War experts and rights defenders assess chances of Chechen POWs from "Akhmat" to return home

  Russian authorities will try to exchange the fighters of the "Akhmat-Chechnya" unit captured in the Kursk Region, experts have suggested. Once returned, fighters will have to apologize and go back to the frontline, human rights defenders believe.

August 19, 2024 17:19

• Dagestani villagers complain to Putin about inaction of officials

  In their video message to President Putin, residents of the mountain village of Kulibukhna complained that the road in their village needs repairs, but their appeals to local officials had not yielded any results.

August 18, 2024 23:18

• Contract soldier from Tyrnyauz convicted of evading military service

  A court in Nalchik has sentenced a contract serviceman from the city of Tyrnyauz to a year in penal colony, finding him guilty of evading his military service without permission.

August 18, 2024 19:09

• Kadyrov boasts about Elon Musk's Tesla

  The Cybertruck Tesla car from Elon Musk will go to the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine, the head of Chechnya has stated and invited the founder of the Tesla Company to visit Grozny.

August 17, 2024 21:51

• PO apologizes to KBR believer

  The Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has upheld the acquittal of Kirill Guschin, a Jehovah's Witness*, after which the Prosecutor's Office (PO) apologized for the unjustified criminal prosecution. However, the PO has challenged the verdict.

August 17, 2024 18:50

• Sochi engineer arrested in case on fake news about Russian Army

  Investigators have toughened the charges brought against Sochi engineer Alexei Schus in a criminal case on disseminating fake news about the Russian Army. Alexei Schus, who signed a recognizance not to leave the city, has been taken into custody.

August 16, 2024 23:41

• Defence claims that Khamukovs' guilt not proven

  The Cassation Court has disregarded the fact that Asker and Lianna Khamukov, residents of Baksan, were convicted within the case of financing terrorism without any proofs of their guilt, while the charges were based on testimonies of some secret witnesses, their advocate has stated, stressing that all the appealing opportunities against the verdict at the national level have been exhausted.

August 16, 2024 22:50

• Djabrailov's mother reproaches Dagestani leader for ignoring her appeals

  Akhmed Djabrailov served as a storm-trooper in the Chechen special unit "Akhmat", and returned home a week before his death at a Makhachkala police station, his mother has stated. She has reproached the head of Dagestan for not reacting to the violence against a fighter in the special military operation (SMO) even after her written appeal to him.

August 16, 2024 21:14

• PO loses case on tightening punishment of human rights defender Nagavkin

  The Fourth Cassation Court of Krasnodar has upheld the sentence of human rights defender Igor Nagavkin from the town Kalach-on-Don, and refused to assign him a real prison term as demanded by the Prosecutor's Office (PO). Nagavkin insisted on overturning the verdict; he intends to appeal against it at the Supreme and Constitutional Courts.

August 16, 2024 19:18

• Law enforcers dispute about niqabs as camouflage method

  Niqabs can be a good camouflage for criminals, given that there are no systems to identify who is underneath it, Amir Kolov, a retired Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), asserts. In his turn, Sergey Goncharov, the president of the Association of Veterans of the "Alpha" Antiterrorist Unit, has objected that niqabs were earlier used as a camouflage, including during the Chechen campaigns, but modern systems make it possible to identify the person hiding under a niqab.

August 16, 2024 13:15

• In Dagestani village of Tlokha, residents demand to punish law enforcers for use of torture

  Law enforcers tortured Magomed Shamsudinov, a resident of the village of Tlokha in the Botlikh District, to obtain a confession from him in a criminal case. Magomed Shamsudinov has been held in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) for four months, his fellow villagers state in their video message to Sergey Melikov, the leader of Dagestan.

August 15, 2024 23:49

• Court obliges Sochi resident to undergo compulsory medical treatment for disseminating fakes about Russian Army

  The Central District Court of Sochi has ordered compulsory medical treatment for a local resident, against whom the law enforcement bodies instituted a criminal case for disseminating fakes about the Russian Armed Forces.

August 15, 2024 22:55

• In Volgograd Region, law enforcers report sending to Ukraine contract soldiers from among migrants

  Raids to identify migrants who received Russian citizenship but did not register for military service were carried out in the Volgograd Region. Twenty-five people were taken to military registration and enlistment offices.

August 15, 2024 19:49

• KBR military serviceman convicted of non-appearance for duty

  A court in Nalchik has sentenced Anzor Khashev to five years of freedom deprivation for failing to appear for duty at the Military Prosecutor's Office (MPO).

August 15, 2024 19:07

• Defence of advocate Tsipinova from KBR treats her case as precedent

  The decision of the cassation court, which has overturned the acquittal, will be appealed against at the Supreme Court (SC), Diana Tsipinova, an advocate from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), accused of attacking a law enforcer.