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November 18, 2024 22:48

• Court cancels lenient sentence to Sochi policemen for extorting bribe

  The Lazarevsky District Court of Sochi sentenced criminal investigator Yefrem Kesyan to seven years of probation, finding him guilty of accepting a bribe from a detainee. The Supreme Court (SC) of Russia found the sentence unreasonably lenient.

November 18, 2024 21:38

• Rights defender Nagavkin calls to conduct check in colony

  Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender, has complained about custody conditions in the penal colony, located in the Volgograd Region, where he is serving his sentence, and demanded to conduct an inspection there.

November 18, 2024 19:33

• Version of Sunzha Imam's ties with underground called into question

  No radical views have been found in the Imam of the Sunzha mosque, Abdulrashid Gardanov, while law enforcers are simulating a fight against the underground in order to improve their performance, analysts assert.

November 17, 2024 16:35

• Desecration of monument to Kadyrov in Moscow is message to Chechen leader

  The derogatory inscription on the monument to Akhmat Kadyrov in Moscow was caused by hostility towards the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, human rights defenders have suggested.

November 16, 2024 23:31

• Activists treat attempt to detain Dagestani political analyst Khalidov as intimidation

  While trying to detain Denga Khalidov, a Dagestani political analyst, before a round table in support of Ramazan Rabadanov, law enforcers wanted to put pressure and intimidate activists.

November 16, 2024 22:48

• Policemen convicted in Dagestan for beating detainee up

  After finding them guilty of beating up a detainee and falsifying proofs within a criminal case, the Nogai District Court has sentenced the police chief of the town of Yuzhno-Sukhokumsk (Dagestan) and three of his subordinates to colony terms.

November 16, 2024 19:35

• Native of Chechnya fined twice for discrediting Russian Army

  In Surgut, a court found two entries posted on a social network by local resident Marina Lolokhaeva to be discrediting the Russian Armed Forces. The woman was obliged to pay a fine of 70,000 roubles.

November 15, 2024 23:30

• Journalist Kevorkova*’s case sent to prosecutor’s office

  A case against journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova*, accused of justifying terrorism, has been sent to the prosecutor’s office for approval of the indictment. Kaloi Alkhigov, an advocate of Nadezhda Kevorkova*, suggested that the investigation may be delayed due to the political nature of the case.

November 15, 2024 23:07

• Case of Zhuravel, who burned down Koran, evidences voluntary law interpreting

  The treason case of Nikita Zhuravel is being considered at the place where the alleged crime was committed, although the case of burning the Koran was transferred from Volgograd to Chechnya. The voluntary nature of Zhuravel's testimonies on treason remains in question, but the closed nature of the trial does not allow his statements to be heard.

November 15, 2024 22:23

• Makhachkala rioters offered removal from prophylactic register for contracts with MoD

  At a meeting with participants in the riots at the Makhachkala Airport, the head of the Karabudakhkent District threatened negative consequences of prophylactic registration for their families and offered to remove from the register those who would sign contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) to participate in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine.

November 15, 2024 19:32

• Dagestani activists complain about attempt to disrupt roundtable in defence of Rabadanov

  Law enforcers attempted to detain activist Denga Khalidov, who organized a roundtable in defence of blogger Ramazan Rabadanov, who was detained in Dagestan. Activists accepted an appeal to the law enforcement bodies, despite the fact that they had to change twice the location of their meeting.

November 14, 2024 23:18

• Young people apologize for desecrating “Eternal Glory” memorial in Nevinnomyssk

  A video of four young people apologizing for desecrating the “Eternal Glory” memorial in Nevinnomyssk has been posted on Telegram.

November 14, 2024 22:45

• Claims from tax authorities draw attention to charitable fund of Khabib, UFC champion from Dagestan

  Khabib Nurmagomedov, the ambassador of the "Tooba" charity crowd-funding application, was publicly supporting the Makhachkala football club. However, no information about any assistance to mountain villages, low-income people, or children's clubs appeared in the public space.

November 14, 2024 22:40

• Kuban resident fined for pacifist post on Telegram

  The court has fined Anton Timoshenko, a resident of the Pavlovsky District of Kuban (the Krasnodar Territory), for a pacifist video placed by him in a Telegram channel criticizing the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine.

November 14, 2024 19:39

• Vandals write insult on monument to Kadyrov in Moscow

  Vandals have painted a derogatory inscription on the monument to Akhmat Kadyrov in Moscow. It was erased by utility workers.

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.