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April 27, 2023 18:09

• Defence of Ingush protest leaders demands disqualification of judges

  The Stavropol Territorial Court has begun considering an appeal in the case of seven leaders of Ingush protests, despite the absence of several advocates for valid reasons. The activists' defence demanded to remove the judges, because they communicated with the prosecutors outside the trial.

April 27, 2023 17:06

• Rights defenders and bloggers argue about Kadyrov's role in staging deaths of critics of Chechen authorities

  In his comment on the article by Elena Milashina, in which she stated that Tumso and Khasan Khalitov were materially interested in staging their deaths on the order of Chechen authorities, the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, has objected that Elena had failed to present any proofs that the intermediary was associated with Ramzan Kadyrov.

April 27, 2023 15:56

• Analysts assess degree of Kadyrov's influence on FSB

  The head of Chechnya, who has appointed his nephew, Khamzat Kadyrov, as his assistant for the power bloc of agencies, enjoys a special status among Russian governors and can influence the Russian power structures, including the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service), Amir Kolov, a Colonel at the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), has stated.

April 27, 2023 15:04

• Krasnodar journalist Alipat Sultanbegova suspected of discrediting Russian army

  The police drew up a protocol against Alipat Sultanbegova, a journalist from Krasnodar, on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces because of her post in stories a pacifist slogan.

April 27, 2023 13:36

• Court orders to reconsider decision in case against law enforcers beating a disabled person from Krasnodar

  In Krasnodar, the Court of Cassation returned a case on beating of Yevgeny Manchenko by law enforcers for a new consideration.

April 27, 2023 00:00

• Resident of Nevinnomyssk claims fabricated criminal case

  Batyr Laipanov, a former policeman, has achieved cancellation of his sentence in a criminal bribe case after having served a part of his term, but at retrial, the prosecution demanded a harsher sentence for him. Laipanov treats the bribe case as falsified, pointing to his conflict with agents of special services.

April 26, 2023 23:58

• Court in Chechnya refuses to add evidence about Kardashov's disappearance to case files

  Representatives of the suffered party in the case of the disappearance of Alexei Kardashov, a resident of Dagestan, have asked to add the testimony of Said-Magomed Omarov to the case files, although it contradicts the version of the "Rosgvardiya" (Russian National Guard) fighters from Chechnya accused of illegally detaining Kardashov.

April 26, 2023 23:56

• Pyotr Parpulov, Sochi resident, convicted of treason, left at large

  A court in Tambov has ruled in favour of Pyotr Parpulov, a Sochi resident, sentenced to 12 years in prison within a treason case, admitting that he could not be in jail with such diseases.

April 26, 2023 23:52

• Resident of Chechnya charged with attacking Pskov paratroopers

  A charge of attacking Pskov paratroopers in 2000 has been put forward against Alavdi Batykaev, a Chechen resident. He denies his guilt, and his advocate states that there are no proofs of his participation in the attack, the "Memorial" Human Rights Defence Centre reports.

April 26, 2023 19:16

• Kadyrov's nephew appointed adviser-assistant to head of Chechnya for power bloc

  The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has appointed his nephew, Khamzat Kadyrov, as his adviser-assistant for the power bloc.

April 26, 2023 09:43

• SMO participants from Dagestani village complain to Putin about seizure of land

  The residents of the Dagestani village of Kurush, who take part in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, have recorded a video appeal to Vladimir Putin complaining about the unjustified seizure of pasture land from villagers in favour of the national park.

April 25, 2023 23:58

• Pickets of journalists remind residents of Makhachkala about Abdulmumin Gadjiev’s case

  Residents of Makhachkala expressed their active support to colleagues of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the Dagestani weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft), during their solo pickets. The picketers demanded to release their colleague.

April 25, 2023 23:20

• Rights defenders treat publicity as efficient way to help abductees in Chechnya

  The residents of Chechnya, whose relatives are being held by law enforcers, refrain from turning to human rights defenders, fearing that this will aggravate the situation of their relatives and the family itself; they try to resolve the problem through behind-the-scenes negotiations.

April 25, 2023 19:15

• Natives of Chechnya go on hunger strike in a deportation camp near Zagreb

  Six natives of Chechnya are on hunger strike at a deportation centre in Croatia. They are protesting against the denial of refugee status because of suspicions of extremism.

April 25, 2023 18:16

• Human rights defenders find out fate of kidnapped residents of Chechen village

  At least 25 residents of the village of Alkhan-Kala, whose whereabouts were unknown after they had been kidnapped by law enforcers in January, are being kept in a Chechen detention facility and charged with involvement in the militant activities.

April 25, 2023 09:29

• Resident of Sochi accused of discrediting Russian Armed Forces

  A chat discussion about the special military operation in Ukraine and quotes from an investigation about President Vladimir Putin became the reason for the police to draw up a protocol on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces against a resident of Sochi.

April 24, 2023 22:15

• Bar Association refuses to punish Dagestanis' advocate on FSIN's complaint

  The Bar Association of the Saratov Region has rejected the demand of the regional branch of the FSIN (Russian Federal Penitentiary Service) to punish Aza Alieva, an advocate, who defends, among other clients, the natives of Dagestan who had suffered from torture in the Kalmyk colony.

April 24, 2023 19:52

• Chechen authorities report reconciliation of 2395 divorced couples

  In Chechnya, special commissions have reunited 2395 divorced couples, the administration of the head of the republic has reported. Commentators in the social networks have doubted the strength of marriages restored at authorities' demand.

April 23, 2023 05:02

• Moscow pensioner states that law enforcers distorted her words about Ukraine

  Olga Slegina, a pensioner from Moscow, has stated that in Nalchik law enforcers had misinterpreted her words about Ukraine and Zelensky in order to accuse her of discrediting the Russian Army.

April 23, 2023 04:58

• Resident of Dagestan fined for discrediting militaries

  The court has found Ilyas Ziyaudinov, a resident of the Levashin District, guilty of discrediting the Russian Army and obliged him to pay a fine.