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January 01, 2023 22:26

• Residents of most regions of Southern Russia celebrate New Year without mass celebrations

  Amid the military operation in Ukraine, authorities of most regions of Southern Russia have banned mass celebrations on the occasion of the New Year, with the exception of festive events for children. Mayors of several cities have also changed the format of New Year celebrations.

January 01, 2023 22:07

• Law enforcer who escaped from Russia reports detention of his relatives in Dagestan

  After his interview about the involvement of FSB agents in terror acts, relatives of the wife of Emran Navruzbekov, a former operative agent, and his mother's relatives were detained in Dagestan. Navruzbekov asked law enforcers not to touch his relatives.

December 31, 2022 22:40

• Dagestani blogger links case on discrediting army with his posts

  The reason for initiating a criminal case against Arslan Mirzaev, a blogger from Dagestan, on discrediting Russian militaries, was in his publications criticizing the Kremlin's policy in Ukraine, the blogger himself has suggested.

December 31, 2022 22:20

• Dagestani law enforcer flees to Europe and accuses colleagues of involvement in terror acts

  In his interview, Emran Navruzbekov, an operative agent of the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service), who has asked for political asylum in Europe, stated that FSB agents were involved in terror acts and staged special operations committed and conducted in Dagestan.

December 31, 2022 15:28

• Persecution of blogger Shevtsov’s parents in Astrakhan stopped

  A court recognized as “actually fictitious” the events by which the police in Astrakhan explained the detention of Yuri Shevtsov and Galina Shevtsova for two days.

December 31, 2022 15:23

• Authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina refuse entry to group of natives of Chechnya and Ingushetia

  About 20 natives of Chechnya and Ingushetia arrived through Turkey to Bosnia and Herzegovina to apply later for political asylum in Croatia, but they were deported from the Sarajevo airport to Istanbul.

December 31, 2022 11:57

• Crime and detention: main point about scandals with Kadyrov's representatives

  On December 26, 2022, Khasan Ibragimov, Ramzan Kadyrov's official representative in the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions, was detained in Simferopol on suspicion of beating a young man who stood up for a girl in a restaurant.

December 30, 2022 22:26

• Laureates of Akhmednabiev award draw attention to domestic violence in Southern Russia

  The "Caucasian Knot" has summed up the outcomes of the annual contest named after the deceased journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev.

December 30, 2022 15:57

• Kadyrov denies forced sending Chechens to frontline

  All the participants from Chechnya in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, including law enforcers, have gone there voluntarily, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated.

December 30, 2022 12:39

• Video posted of beating up restaurant visitor by Chechen law enforcers in Simferopol

  Four men took part in beating up a restaurant visitor in Simferopol despite attempts to stop the brawl, says the video of the incident with Chechen law enforcers.

December 30, 2022 05:28

• Kadyrov announces his right to run for president

  Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has emphasized that he has the right to run for president in Russia, but he will never do that.

December 30, 2022 05:20

• Human rights defenders get insulting response from address of Chechen parliament chair Daudov

  The “Team Against Torture”* received responses to 37 out of 68 letters with a study on torture in Northern Caucasus sent to representatives of the authorities and the law enforcement bodies.

December 29, 2022 23:55

• After conflict with law enforcers, mass gatherings are banned in Urus-Martan

  Any resident of the Urus-Martan District, regardless of activity type, will be punished for participating in any mass meeting, the head of the district police has announced.

December 29, 2022 23:50

• Wives of mobilized Volgograd residents complain to prosecutor's office

  Women from the Volgograd Region have stated that their husbands are being held in custody after they refused to take part in hostilities; they receive no medical care and adequate food.

December 29, 2022 20:03

• Mother of perished Sochi policeman demands to investigate her son's death

  Alexei Belyakov, a Sochi policeman, was found dead in his car five years ago. All these years, investigators would not look for the perpetrators, Alexei's mother asserts.

December 29, 2022 19:57

• Contract soldier from Ingushetia achieves payments after dismissal

  After his request for dismissal for family reasons, a contract serviceman from Ingushetia lost his payments but after his appeal to the court, the command abandoned their claims, human rights defenders report.

December 29, 2022 16:07

• Kalmykia honours memory of those who died during years of deportation

  On the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Deportation of the Kalmyk people, the cities of Kalmykia hosted commemorative events. It is important to continue to keep the memory of the victims of deportation, users of the social media point out.

December 29, 2022 14:43

• Ramzan Kadyrov receives award from National Guard of Russia

  Ramzan Kadyrov has received the Medal “For Comradeship-in-Arms” of the National Guard of Russia, which is awarded for strengthening military cooperation, including with other countries.

December 29, 2022 13:52

• In the Balkans, group of immigrants from Chechnya face deportation threat

  Several dozen natives of Chechnya have stuck in Bosnia and Herzegovina due to the refusal of border guards to let them into Croatia. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the natives from Chechnya face the threat of deportation, human rights defenders assert.

December 29, 2022 13:46

• Shootout with law enforcers in KBR was the second in three months

  The shootout in the suburbs of Nalchik, in which law enforcers killed two people, was preceded by a similar incident in the Prokhladnensky District in October 2022. Prior to this, there had been no armed incidents in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) for more than a year.