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August 01, 2024 23:18

• Believers from Karachay-Cherkessia involved in criminal case as suspects

  Two women from the Zelenchuksky District are suspected of participating in an extremist organization: they were organizing meetings and services of Jehovah’s Witnesses*, investigators stated.

August 01, 2024 21:59

• Krasnodar historian fined for discrediting Russian Army

  Sergey Ryabchikov, a historian from Krasnodar, has been fined by 30,000 roubles for a post in which he called himself a pacifist.

August 01, 2024 21:27

• Behaviour of Akhmat battalion fighters sparks discontent among residents of Belgorod Region

  Fighters from Chechen units opened fire in a square of the town of Valuiki in the Belgorod Region and filmed it on video. Local residents, commenting on the video clip posted in social networks, have pointed to the unacceptable behaviour of Akhmat battalion fighters and demanded from authorities to hold them accountable.

August 01, 2024 18:19

• Arrest of Crimean Tatar Leniye Umerova, accused of espionage, extended until November 4

  A Moscow court has extended the custody of Leniye Umerova, a Tatar woman from Crimean, accused of espionage.

July 31, 2024 23:50

• Russian General Prosecutor treats militants’ attacks in Dagestan as authorities’ failure

  The militants’ attacks in Dagestan, like the terror act at Crocus City Hall, occurred because of the failure of the authorities, which did not pay sufficient attention to countering terrorism. The above was stated by Russian General Prosecutor Igor Krasnov.

July 31, 2024 23:10

• Activists assess prospects for ban on religious clothing in Kabardino-Balkaria

  When commenting on the recommendation of an official from a mosque in Nalchik to remove niqabs in educational institutions, activists and religious figures have noted that in recent years, there have been more people wearing religious clothing in Kabardino-Balkaria.

July 31, 2024 22:38

• Mobilized man from Kabardino-Balkaria challenges sentence for evading military service

  Emran Usmanov, a military serviceman, mobilized from the Prokhladnensky District, sentenced to two years in colony for evading his service, has refused to plead guilty and appealed against the sentence.

July 31, 2024 21:57

• Rights defenders declare Vladimir Yarotsky, Krasnodar resident, as political prisoner

  The criminal case against Vladimir Yarotsky under the article on Nazism rehabilitation is politically motivated; and the article under which he is being prosecuted mismatches the Russian Constitution and international legal norms, the human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial" has stated, demanding that Yarotsky be released.

July 31, 2024 21:38

• Kadyrov promises to shoot hijab opponents dead

  Those who oppose wearing hijabs are enemies of Islam, the head of Chechnya has declared, promising to shoot anyone who tells his daughter to take off her hijab dead.

July 31, 2024 19:38

• Contract soldier from Novorossiysk convicted of AWOL

  In Novorossiysk, a court sentenced contract soldier Alexei Parakhin to five years and three months of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony, finding him guilty of absence without official leave (AWOL) during mobilization.

July 30, 2024 23:49

• Defence refuses to challenge decision to deport Kamyshin activist to Ukraine

  The court of appeal upheld the decision to deport Ukrainian citizen Alexander Gongadze Volny Ross from Russia. The man attracted the attention of the law enforcement bodies after the announcement of a rally for accessibility of Kamyshin roads for people with disabilities.

July 30, 2024 23:08

• Analysts name nationalism growth factors in Southern Russia

  Activists of nationalist movements demonstrate complete loyalty to authorities and seek to cooperate with law enforcement bodies, but high-profile scandals, such as the march in Korenovsk, are interfering with these plans. At the same time, the xenophobia growth in the society has to do with some officials' statements and anti-migrant rhetoric, analysts have noted.

July 30, 2024 20:57

• Mother of Kevin Lik, convicted of treason, reports her son's disappearance from colony

  The administration of the colony in the Arkhangelsk Region has failed to deliver a parcel to Kevin Lik, a resident of Adygea, convicted of treason, since he had left the colony.

July 30, 2024 19:37

• Rights defender Nagavkin challenges verdict on disrupting SIZO work

  Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender, has appealed against the verdict passed on him by the Leninsky District Court of the Volgograd Region within the case of disorganizing the work of the SIZO (pre-trial prison), treating his conditional imprisonment as unjustified.

July 30, 2024 18:12

• Blogger Vadim Kharchenko* from Gelendzhik taken into custody

  The Krasnodar Territorial Court arrested blogger Vadim Kharchenko* charged in a case on public calls for extremism and discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

July 29, 2024 23:18

• Human rights defender Oleg Orlov* taken from SIZO to some unknown destination

  An advocate of Oleg Orlov* failed to visit the human rights defender at a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Syzran.

July 29, 2024 22:58

• Convicted Dagestani resident complains about torture

  Asef Chubanov, a resident of Dagestan, sentenced to imprisonment for failure to report a crime allegedly committed by his fellow villager and possession of firearms, filed a complaint about falsification of his case, pressure, and torture. The court of cassation upheld the verdict.

July 29, 2024 20:58

• Ruslan Totrov, North-Ossetian journalist, treats his criminal prosecution as politically motivated

  The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has declared Ruslan Totrov, a journalist from North Ossetia, wanted. The day before, he was included into the database of terrorists and extremists run by the "Rosfinmonitoring" (Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service).

July 29, 2024 20:48

• Lawyers treat it preferable for Zhuravel, Koran-burner, to stay at SIZO

  Serving his sentence at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) instead of a penal colony can ease the convict's situation; in particular, he is exposed to less risk from other convicts, lawyers and human rights defenders have noted in their comments on the situation with Nikita Zhuravel.

July 29, 2024 17:36

• Astrakhan public figures assess ban on wearing Muslim religious clothing

  Restrictions on wearing religious clothing and attributes are unconstitutional, Muslim Yunusov, a religious figure, believes. The issue of banning Muslim women from wearing religious clothing is being discussed in the society, but is not a subject of acute conflict, Oleg Shein, an MP of the Astrakhan Regional Duma, has noted.