Kalmykia

May 09, 2024 23:26

• Prosecution has no more proofs in Kalmyk Jehovah's Witnesses'* case

  Two of the prosecution witnesses in the case of Kishta Tutinova, Tsagan Khalgaeva and Ekaterina Menkova have failed to appear in court, but the prosecutor did not insist on their appearance. Tutinova is under threat of up to ten years in jail; Khalgaeva and Menkova – up to six years.

May 08, 2024 19:04

• Witnesses in case against believers in Kalmykia reject investigators’ version

  None of the witnesses questioned at a public prosecutor’s request confirmed that Jehovah’s Witnesses* from Kalmykia Kishta Tutunova, Tsagan Khalgaeva, and Yekaterina Menkova voiced any extremist statements. That was reported by an advocate of Kishta Tutunova.

May 07, 2024 23:52

• Court arrests blogger Dmitry Ivanov* in absentia

  A court in Moscow has arrested in absentia Dmitry Ivanov*, a blogger, accused of spreading fakes about the Russian Army. The blogger covered events in Southern Russia on his YouTube channel, the "OVD Info"* project has informed.

April 27, 2024 22:47

• Kalmyk activist Vladimir Dovdanov* announced wanted

  The police have put on the wanted list Vladimir Dovdanov, a Kalmyk activist, who has fled Russia, and is accused of calling for undermining the state security.

April 26, 2024 22:45

• Court tightens sentence of Dagestani native Magomed Atimagomedov in case on attack on warders

  Magomed Atimagomedov, a native of Dagestan, convicted in a case on attacking warders from a Kalmyk penal colony and killing one of them, has his 25-year sentence replaced with life imprisonment.

April 25, 2024 18:51

• Convict in Kalmykia demands compensation for being HIV-infected

  Yuri Mikhailov, who is serving his sentence in Elista, after staying in the Novorossiysk detention centre and the colonies of Kabardino-Balkaria and Kalmykia, became HIV-infected and sick with hepatitis. He demanded compensation for inadequate custody conditions.

April 08, 2024 21:06

• Student fined for solo picketing in Elista

  A court in Elista (the capital of Kalmykia) has fined Dolores Nimgirova, a local student, by 5000 roubles, treating her solo picket held after Alexei Navalny's death as an offence.

April 02, 2024 19:29

• Lawyers treat the spring draft as creeping mobilization

  The introduction of electronic summonses and associated restrictions on person's rights have become the main features of the new draft; however, in Northern Caucasus, it will only result in an increase of the upper conscription age, lawyers have noted.

March 27, 2024 14:49

• Schoolchildren in Southern Russia frightened by offers to commit terror acts

  Teenagers from different country regions, including from Southern Russia, are massively receiving offers in instant messengers from unknown persons to commit terror acts, Ekaterina Mizulina, the director of the Safe Internet League, has reported.

March 24, 2024 15:19

• Memorials to Crocus City Hall terror act victims appear in SFD cities

  In cities of all the regions of the Southern Federal District (SFD), spontaneous memorials have been set up for the victims of the terror act in Krasnogorsk, local officials have reported.

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