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November 13, 2024 23:56

• Contract soldier from North Ossetia sentenced to six years of imprisonment for leaving his unit

  The Southern District Military Court has approved a verdict against Manuchekhr Beknazarov, a contract soldier from North Ossetia, who was sentenced to six years of imprisonment. The man injured himself and then left his place of military service for more than two months.

November 13, 2024 23:16

• Kabardino-Balkarian resident fined for discrediting Russian Army

  The Prokhladnensky District Court has found the allegations that local resident Viktor Marchuk had spoken in a negative way about the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine proven. The man has been fined 30,000 roubles under the article on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

November 13, 2024 22:25

• Court in Georgievsk holds hearing on Makhachkala riots

  A court hearing was held in Georgievsk on the case of five residents of Dagestan, whom investigators treat as participants in the riots that broke out at the Makhachkala Airport. At the request of the advocate of one of the defendants, the judge removed a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent from the courtroom.

November 13, 2024 20:22

• Defence reveals details of Musaeva's new case

  Zarema Musaeva, convicted in Chechnya, is suspected of attacking a colony-settlement employee, who accompanied her to a day patient hospital for treatment.

November 12, 2024 23:37

• Underground singer from Saint Petersburg fined for song about sex with natives of Caucasus

  Singer Albina Sexova has been fined 10,000 roubles under the article on incitement of hatred.

November 12, 2024 22:47

• Kadyrov responds to reports of “Chechen trace” in assassination attempt in Uzbekistan

  Ramzan Kadyrov called the version of the presence of a “Chechen trace” in an attack on a car of a former public sector employee in Uzbekistan a “fake news.”

November 12, 2024 21:29

• Petition on Musaeva's CER returned for reconsideration

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has returned the petition that asked for conditional early relief (CER or parole) of Zarema Musaeva to the Shali City Court for reconsideration. Her son treats her condition as depressed due to the new case against her on disrupting the colony's work.

November 12, 2024 18:27

• Case of discrediting Russian Army by resident of Astrakhan Region due to criticism of Putin reaches court

  The criminal case initiated against Vitaly Zhuravlyov for his comment about the special military operation (SMO) placed in a social network has been submitted to the court of the city of Akhtubinsk, Astrakhan Region.

November 11, 2024 23:22

• Zarema Musaeva involved in new criminal case as suspect

  An investigation has been launched against convicted Zarema Musaeva under the article on disorganization of the activities of a penal colony. The woman faces up to five years of imprisonment. The above information has been reported by advocate Alexander Savin.

November 11, 2024 23:18

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of November 4-10, 2024

  Change of power in the Rostov Region, drone attacks, echo of the parliamentary elections in Georgia, explosion in Pyatigorsk, Rabadanov’s arrest, 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 November 4-10, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

November 11, 2024 22:29

• MP calls for investigation into torture of detainee in Vladikavkaz

  In Vladikavkaz, armed law enforcers detained Batraz Gogaev and tortured him with electric current, trying to force him to confess to a crime. Soslan Didarov, a member of the republic’s parliament, demanded to launch an investigation.

November 11, 2024 21:57

• Media: Putin meets Chechen Interior Minister Iraskhanov, sanctioned for extrajudicial execution

  In Moscow, Vladimir Putin met Chechen Interior Minister Aslan Iraskhanov, the Chechen media report. Aslan Iraskhanov has been included in the US sanctions list in connection with human rights violations and extrajudicial executions in the Chechen Republic.

November 11, 2024 17:52

• Dagestani villager accuses law enforcers of labour exploitation

  A resident of the Kaitag District of Dagestan has complained that law enforcers had forced him to do repairs to the building where the police station is located; they groundlessly compiled a protocol; against him for drunk driving, and sent the case to court.

November 11, 2024 17:47

• Refusal to conduct examination outrages relatives of Sultanov killed in Dagestan

  The court that considers the murder case of Magomed-Ali Sultanov, a resident of the city of Kayakent (Dagestan) has refused to appoint a repeated expertise, which could show that there were several murder weapons. The judge's decision has outraged the casualty's father and brothers.

November 09, 2024 23:39

• Dagestani activist Ramazan Rabadanov arrested for two months

  A court in Makhachkala has arrested Ramazan Rabadanov, an activist, until January 7, 2025, within a case of illegal arms trafficking. This was reported by Shamil Khadulaev, the head of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) of Dagestan in his Telegram channel.

November 09, 2024 22:49

• Mobilized man from Krasnodar Territory sentenced for non-appearance at service

  The Novorossiysk Garrison Military Court has sentenced Denis Sergeev, a mobilized serviceman, to six years in a strict regime penal colony for being absent from his unit for more than a year.

November 09, 2024 20:16

• Sochi court orders Catholic priest to leave Russia

  In Sochi, the Central District Court has fined for preaching and ordered the expulsion of Catholic priest Vladislav Klotz, who had been conducting services in Russia for the past 28 years.

November 09, 2024 18:15

• Dagestani residents outraged by detention of activist Rabadanov

  Residents of Dagestan are outraged by the detention of activist Ramazan Rabadanov, who spoke in defence of the defendants in the case on riots at the Makhachkala airport.

November 08, 2024 23:38

• Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov* recognized as foreign agent

  The Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has included the Chechen blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov*, who lives abroad, into the register of foreign agents.

November 08, 2024 22:43

• KBR convict proves to ECtHR violation of his rights in colony

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized the round-the-clock video surveillance in a Krasnoyarsk colony as a violation of the rights of Murat Kanikhov, a convict kept there. However, no compensation was awarded.