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March 05, 2023 16:28

• Court sides with Chechen police in dispute with perished law enforcer's mother

  The court of appeal in Chechnya has upheld the refusal to satisfy the lawsuit of Bahumesedo Khamidova, who asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to award the order to her son, a policeman, who perished in 2002.

March 05, 2023 16:25

• Kadyrov boasts of his son's personal meeting with Putin

  The President of Russia had a personal meeting with Akhmat Kadyrov, a son of Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, and congratulated him on his upcoming marriage, the father has boasted.

March 05, 2023 15:52

• Law enforcers announce criminal case against "Memorial"*

  A criminal case has been opened against employees of the "Memorial" Society under the article on rehabilitation of Nazism, law enforcement sources have reported. There was no notification about the case; and investigators failed to voice out the claims, human rights defenders from the "Memorial" have informed.

March 05, 2023 15:14

• Case details of Zaur Radjabov, Makhachkala resident, announced

  The Leninsky District Court of Makhachkala has fined Zaur Radjabov, a local resident, by 30,000 roubles, recognizing that his posts in the Instagram* social network had discredited Russian militaries.

March 04, 2023 16:02

• Defence completes presenting proofs in Abdulmumin Gadjiev's case

  The advocates for Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Kemal Tambiev and Abubakar Rizvanov have completed the presentation of evidence, but Tambiev is demanding that the protocol of his first interrogation be excluded from the case files, while Rizvanov is seeking to summon new witnesses to the trial.

March 04, 2023 15:49

• Kremlin reacts to Kadyrov's call for martial law

  The decision to introduce the martial law is made by the president, Dmitry Peskov, President Putin's press secretary, has recalled in his comment on the proposal of the head of Chechnya to tighten the regime in some Russian regions after the attack committed in the Bryansk Region.

March 04, 2023 15:45

• Volgograd contract soldier’s wife seeks his treatment through court

  A spouse of a participant in the special military operation appealed to the Volgograd Garrison Military Court, demanding that her husband be dismissed from service and provided with psychiatric treatment. Military doctors who examined the contract soldier declared him fit for service, while civilian doctors insist that he needs medical treatment.

March 03, 2023 23:37

• Native of Chechnya achieves cancellation of his deportation from France

  A court in Paris has satisfied the complaint of a native of Chechnya against the decision of the French Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to deport him to Russia, admitting that the man was in danger of being tortured in Russia.

March 03, 2023 23:30

• ECtHR awards compensation to Krasnodar activist

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has decided that Denis Nochevka had been illegally kept after being detained at a rally against the pension reform held in Krasnodar; and his trial was not impartial.

March 03, 2023 23:27

• Kadyrov urges to punish families of those who committed terror act in Bryansk Region

  Relatives of the attackers should be called to account for the armed incident in the Bryansk Region and, despite the presence of civilian facilities nearby, "bomb down all the sites" that may be associated with the preparation of the terror act, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated.

March 03, 2023 23:16

• Residents of Chechnya reprimanded publicly by law enforcers for drinking alcohol

  A video of law enforcers chastising a group of residents of the Urus-Martan District for drinking alcohol in public places and driving while intoxicated has been posted in social media.

March 03, 2023 18:42

• Activist detained at pacifist picket in Krasnodar

  Natalia Bushueva was taken to a police department after a solo protest action held near the monument to St. Catherine the Great Martyr in Krasnodar.

March 03, 2023 16:25

• Human rights defenders associate mass grave in Grozny with extrajudicial executions

  During the two Chechen military campaigns, extrajudicial executions took place throughout Grozny, so the remains found on the outskirts of the city might belong to the victims of those executions, human rights defenders Oleg Orlov and Alexander Cherkasov suggested.

March 02, 2023 18:52

• Chechen theatre official claims apology from Sokurov

  Khava Akhmadova, the head of the Chechen State Drama Theatre, has treated the statement of film director Alexander Sokurov about the cultural interests of residents of Northern Caucasus as a reason for his apology.

March 02, 2023 18:50

• After detention in Mongolia, activist Batyr Boromangnaev flies to USA

  Mongolian authorities have abandoned their initial plans to deport the Kalmyk activist, Batyr Boromangnaev. After negotiations with the participation of Mongolian politicians and human rights defenders, he was allowed to fly to the United States.

March 02, 2023 18:32

• Court in Chechnya explains refusal to dismiss contract soldier by continued mobilization

  The Grozny Military Court has referred to the decree on the partial mobilization and refused to satisfy the claim of Movsar Arsanov, a contract soldier, on dismissal from military service.

March 02, 2023 18:30

• Mass burial found in Grozny outskirt

  Remains of at least 10 persons have been found near a summer cottage settlement in an outskirt of Grozny, a caption to the video posted on the Internet informs.

March 02, 2023 05:38

• Human rights defenders call Arsamikov’s case typical for Chechnya

  The realities of Chechnya do not allow anyone to consider the video with Idris Arsamikov as proof that he is safe, and his case is typical for dissidents who left Chechnya, but then decided to arrive in the republic on personal matters, human rights defenders point out.

March 02, 2023 05:34

• Lawyers promise to continue fighting for compensation to Ragimovs in case on torture

  The decision of the Moscow court, which recognized as legal the refusal to pay compensation for torture to natives of Dagestan Murad Ragimov and Firuddin Ragimov, will be challenged despite the low chances of obtaining payments, a lawyer from the “Team Against Torture”* reports.

March 01, 2023 23:58

• Investigators explain absence of blogger Kharchenko* on the web by case on fakes

  Vadim Kharchenko*, a blogger from the city of Gelendjik, is under investigation within a criminal case of discrediting the Russian Army after posting a video on his YouTube channel.